The Finding Home Series Books 4-6 by B. E. Baker

Author:B. E. Baker [Baker, B. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Purple Puppy Publishing

8

James

I should never have agreed to pretend Paisley is my girlfriend, because now I wish it was real.

I keep forgetting it’s not.

Watching her scramble over rocks and rubble, cheeks rosy from the exertion, eyes sparkling with mischief, I want to wrap my arms around her and never let go. I want to kiss her until she forgets her own name. I want to wrap her in bubble wrap and take her home with me.

I want too many things that I can’t have.

Dinner last night was practically torture. She didn’t ask me about my grandmother, and I didn’t ask her about what happened to drive her away from a home where she’s clearly adored. I didn’t ask her why she became a secretary instead of a doctor. I didn’t badger her at all.

I just enjoyed spending time with her.

She shines like the sun at noon day. Her laughter lifts my heart in a way I didn’t know it could lift, like it’s being hauled upward with hundreds of helium balloons.

My phone has been ringing for twenty minutes. I finally roll over and pick it up. After all, what if Paisley’s calling?

She’s not.

It’s stupid, irritating Cooper. “What?” I grumble.

“Someone is crabby this morning. Ready to fly back to New York yet?”

“What do you want?” I ask. “Just tell me.”

“I’ve been looking into this whole Blerg debacle.”

“Berg,” I correct him automatically, before I realize he’s probably mocking it.

“Right. Whatever. The point is, once you’re done with your little vacation, I think you need to face the reality that trying to turn this particular company around was as big a mistake as you told me it would be. We need to go back to selling this one off in chunks, because this company isn’t dying. It’s dead. Have you looked at their current contracts? Three more canceled in the past two months, which means they only have two left.”

“I actually think we can fix this,” I say. “I mean, the people are bright and motivated. The plant is in good shape. They just need a new product, and then some solid contracts to produce under.”

“Do you hear yourself?” Cooper asks. “I mean, the contracts and the product—that’s the entire company. You’re basically saying the car is good. It just needs a new engine and a new body. Relax Cooper, the transmission is fine. We may as well sell the parts that work and buy a whole new car.”

“Look, I’ve got a lot of contacts and a few ideas for a product that, with a few minor modifications and a few new pieces of equipment, they could manufacture.”

“Dude, I know your girlfriend is hot, and if that’s your reason, that’s fine. You own this, after all, but if you guys break up, and I feel the odds of that are high, then you’re stuck with a corporate corpse. Her family is totally incapable of managing it, obviously.”

“So we hire a manager.”

“Who you’ll have to fly down to manage yourself. I mean, if you want to relocate to the Alabama of Western Europe to start selling widgets, that’s your prerogative.

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