Stepbrother Romance: The Complete Box Set by Diamond Durango

Author:Diamond Durango
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2015-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Ivy was a gray-haired, four-foot-nine dynamo who spent more time talking about the mailroom in the interview than she did asking Aviana questions. Nor were they seated in a quiet office but moving around the mailroom itself, the older woman tending to a myriad of tasks without a break in stride as she spoke. Sorting, labeling, processing, pointing a bewildered fellow with a stack of envelopes to the outgoing mail bin, she thrust boxes into Aviana’s arms when the phone rang and went to answer it. After a brief conversation, she plunked down the receiver and took the boxes away to give them to someone else.

“And look at their feet!” she exclaimed, gesturing to two clerks working in other parts of the large room. “What do you see?”

“Shoes?” Aviana guessed, hoping that was the right answer.

“Flats. You’re going to be on your feet a lot, so wear flats.” Bustling over to the copier with Aviana on her heels, Ivy lifted the top and slapped down a piece of paper. She closed the lid with a bang, jabbed buttons, and said, “I’ve had three girls come in here wearing platform sneakers and strappy sandals and stiletto boots and one boy in flip-flops like this was the beach. No, no, no! Get yourself a comfortable pair of shoes to wear and inserts if you need them. You’re going to be in and out of every office in this building multiple times a day. It’s not fashion time. Save it for the nightclubs.”

She was talking like Aviana already had the job. “I understand.”

“Good. Not everyone I’ve had does and they end up with plantar fasciitis or some other foot problem that could have been avoided with a little common sense. Now, Hollis told me that you broke your leg when a car hit you?”

“Yes, early this summer. The driver was looking at her cell phone instead of watching where she was going. But it’s better now.”

“I love that boy. Such a charmer.” Ivy swept the copied pages off the tray, retrieved the original, and pushed everything into different boxes in the bank along the wall. “Ice your leg and raise it the first few days you’re here.”

“So you’re giving me the job?” Aviana blurted.

“Be here next Monday at eight. You’ll have to fill out paperwork first with HR but then we can get you started.” The phone trilled and Ivy sighed. Giving Aviana a final nod, she went to answer it. “Hello, you’ve reached the mailroom. What? No, no, no!”

Aviana left the building in a daze and walked to the parking lot. The sun beat down on her. She had a job. She had a job! It wasn’t what she had envisioned all those years she was toiling over her textbooks in school, but this could just be the first rung on a ladder that went to an amazing place one day. Letting herself into the Libation, she turned the key and tilted the vents. The air-conditioning washed over her face.

She wanted to celebrate.

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