Romance: Stepbrother's Secret: (New Adult Bad Boy Alphas Romance) (Contemporary Taboo Short Stories) by Kristen Chase

Author:Kristen Chase [Chase, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

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Taken by the Bear

by Ruby Scott

"How long are you gonna keep that up?"

Ella looked up from her desk, startled; she'd been gazing at the memorial pamphlet from Jacob's funeral, and now her eyes were blurry from re-reading the same block of text for three uninterrupted minutes. She'd forgotten her coworker was even there, in fact, and had assumed she'd walked away when her head bowed to study the pamphlet again. Rachel was still there, though, bespectacled face turned up to look at something above Ella's head. She felt the first stirrings of anger and was ready to defend herself, and then she turned to look at the wall, realizing the other woman was talking about the huge silk banner that read FAMILY FIRST INSURANCE.

It had been carefully pinned there in 2010 when she'd first started working for the company, even before she grew so close to the staff. Before they were comfortable with her, before they'd stopped calling her Miss Morales in odd, formal tones and started inviting her over for dinners. She knew even then that this place--- a refuge only thirty miles away from the nearest sprawling city, but still so close-knit and rural that people knew every doctor and policeman by name and most doors were still unlocked at all times--- was the most special place she'd ever lived. She could feel the earth there sing to her bones, and the need to put down roots was so strong that she'd taken out a loan as soon as she found a job. For the first time since Brandon's death, she felt more than content and totally complete. None of the eight places she'd lived in the two years after her fiance's death had given her that, and this town had given her happiness consistently for five years.

She studied the banner now, realizing what the impending name change really meant to her. They'd no longer be First Family, who put family first--a motto Ella found insufferably saccharine at first until she accepted the fact that every single employee believed in it, wholeheartedly. Jacob had liked to say that it was a requirement for working there. It was only half true. There was another requirement, one that only Ella was exempt from, until now.

"I don't know," she said finally. "Maybe forever."

Rachel looked at Ella closely. "You think the new boss will like that?"

"I don't care," Ella said bluntly. "I like the reminder. I don't want to this place to get completely absorbed by some soulless parent company that runs a huge chain."

"That's what a buyout is, though," said Rachel, her voice low as she looked over her shoulder.

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