Sugar & Spice (Spicetopia Book 1) by Phoebe Alexander

Author:Phoebe Alexander [Alexander, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: rom com, workplace romance, contemporary romance, office romance, billionaries, Nerd Romance
Publisher: Mountains Wanted Publishing
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

I pulled up to the address Marcus left for me. It was a really nice area of Naples, but then again, there were a lot of nice areas in Naples. Lots of rich people lived here. I wouldn’t be living here at all if it wasn’t where Sweetopia was located. We were in Fort Myers before, back when I worked at Barney’s.

It got depressing sometimes to drive around and look at all the oceanfront mansions. It always made me wonder what I did wrong in life to end up on the other side of the tracks as a single mom supporting three other people working two shitty jobs. Did I royally fuck up somewhere along the way? Did I not suck the right dick? Maybe I just needed to march myself up to Mr. Sweet’s office and get down on my knees. Then maybe he’d give me a raise and a health insurance policy that actually took care of my kids instead of this bullshit they offered us.

Who knew how much I was going to end up shelling out after River’s current hospital visit?

Fuck. River looked so little in that hospital bed tonight. He was excited I’d brought him a new video game to play. I tried to find something educational, as usual. Boy, my kids were going to be mad when they got a little older and realized there were games out there that were purely for fun and didn’t try to teach you anything. Hey, you can’t blame me for trying.

The breeze coming off the water blew the dress I was wearing around my knees. I felt weird, almost naked, showing up at Marcus’s door with my legs bare. He’d never seen them. And I’d worn my hair down. He was probably going to freak when he found out I had rather mousy, nondescript brown hair and not the lovely, long raven locks of my Red Velvet Queen wig.

I took a deep breath and depressed the doorbell outside condo #4. Each building had four units, and his was on the far right next to the golf course’s hole #9. I’d spent a little longer at the hospital than I’d planned, and now it was 7:30. Oops. I promised my mom I’d be home by nine. It didn’t look like that was going to happen unless we made this date super fast.

“Jolie!” Marcus exclaimed as he swung the door open. He just stood there for a moment, his mouth hanging open as he took in the image of my real, true self.

I waited for him to say something, anything. He looked only slightly different: no pink polo shirt but a black t-shirt instead. It had a V-neck and was fitted around his biceps just like his work uniform was. His hair was the same. Same glasses. Yeah, he was pretty much the same outside of Sweetopia.

“Wow,” he stammered, and I couldn’t tell if it was a good wow or a bad wow.

I was afraid it was a bad wow. I was too different.

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