Sweet, Sweet Disaster: An AMBW Romance (Sweet Treats Book 2) by Arthurs Nia

Author:Arthurs, Nia [Arthurs, Nia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 2019-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

18

Jo finished ringing up a customer and wiped her forehead with the back of her hand. It was another scorching hot day. She pulled her shirt away from her chest and flapped it, struggling to find relief from the heat.

“Is this a joke to you?” a voice hissed.

Jo spun and found Rhia leveling her a blistering stare that rivaled the exorbitant weather. Geez. If looks could kill, she’d be locking her arms in a casket right about now.

Rhia’s friends, Jennelle and Erica, flanked either side of her, their mouths locked in severe frowns like pretty, multicultural bodyguards.

“Uh…” Jo knew she was being judged, but she had no clue what had ticked Rhia and her crew off. “No?”

Rhia folded her arms over her chest. There was a whole loft of hate simmering through her thinly held composure, as if she wanted to explode on the job but was too afraid of making a scene.

Again, Jo had no idea what she’d done to deserve this maximum-death-threat glare.

“Who told you that you could put up batteries around the cashier station?”

Jo’s eyes darted to the displays that had already been attracting customer attention. “Well, technically no one.”

“Exactly.” Rhia flipped her neat, Siamese twists over one shoulder. “I get that you’re the boss’s favorite, but that doesn’t give you the right to mess around with the merchandise without asking.”

“Oh.” Jo blinked. “I didn’t think it was a big deal.”

“Well, it is,” Rhia spit, her thin eyebrows meeting in the middle of her forehead. “The last time we jumped around and tried to implement our own ideas, the Big Boss had a huge fit.”

“We can’t just do what we want,” Jennelle said, her neck creaking from left to right.

Curiosity pried her mouth open. “Is this really about the batteries?”

“What else could it be about?” The other girl—Erica—sneered. Jo had never seen anyone curl her lip like that before. Not unless they’d just smelled garbage… or a rat carcass.

Was she the carcass in this scenario?

Jo cleared her throat. “Brighton.”

“Ha!” Erica laughed, but the sound was hollow, like a man with tuberculosis in the Dark Ages.

Rhia spoke curtly. “Look, Joana,” her name might as well be a disease, “I don’t know what you’ve heard, but I don’t have anything with Brighton. I’m just trying to keep my job.”

“Yeah, Brighton’s just dumb.” Jennelle rolled her eyes.

Jo wondered if Jennelle had been after Brighton too and had gotten rejected. Her handsome co-worker struck her as the type that broke hearts.

“We have a rule here. We don’t date in the store,” Erica said.

“Does that apply to customers too?” Jo asked. She’d seen a lot of cute guys she wouldn’t mind getting to know better passing through those doors.

“This isn’t personal,” Rhia added, slanting her a consolatory smile so fake it would give the plastic fern in the corner a run for its money. “We’re just trying to educate you on how things are done here—”

“All of a sudden? You’ve ignored me since the moment I was hired. What changed?”

It wasn’t that Jo particularly cared, but she and Rhia had formed a sort of understanding.

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