The Opposite of Drowning by Racheline Maltese & Racheline Maltese

Author:Racheline Maltese & Racheline Maltese [McRae, Erin & Maltese, Racheline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: diverse romance, Bisexual Romance, mf romance, magical realism, age difference romance, may december romance, office romance, workplace romance, New York City romance, Paris, Boston, Italy, Rome, Ys, Mythology, Debutante, Society
Publisher: Indie Author Project
Published: 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

HARRY RETURNED TO HIS employer dismayed, chagrined, and working hard to figure out his next steps. Now he had two crises on his hands, Anika and Eliza, and not enough time to deal with the first and not enough data to deal with the second.

When he pushed open the door to his office, he found Jonathan standing over his desk laying out manila folders. Harry groaned at whatever responsibilities they represented.

Jonathan straightened up and turned around. “Quarterly sales reports for you to take a look at.” He pointed at one stack. “Cover proposals for your feedback.” He pointed to another. “And a final stack of random stuff people have wanted me to get to you for the last week and that I want off my desk.”

Harry nodded mutely. No one liked a random stack. Not that he knew how he was going to passably perform his job in his current state anyway.

“What’s going on?” Jonathan asked, frowning.

“This miserable job.” Harry muttered. He picked up one of the folders and flipped through it, doing a poor job of pretending to look interested in its contents.

Jonathan heaved the very deep sigh of the extremely long-suffering. “You can tell me now, or you can send me a panicked email about deadlines and schedules at two in the morning that I’ll ignore. In one of those situations I’m going to be infinitely more helpful to you.”

Harry leaned against his desk and tossed the folder down.

“Harry,” Jonathan scolded.

Harry shot him an apologetic glance and straightened the folder so that it was in line with the others. “I didn’t write the book I was supposed to write in Vienna. Instead I wrote a book about my mid-life crisis brought on by a woman half my age – who was engaged, except she’s just come back from a trip where I know she was wedding dress shopping, and she’s not wearing her engagement ring.”

“Are you talking about Eliza?” Jonathan looked gleefully aghast.

Harry gave him a baleful look.

“Don’t glare at me, you’re the one who apparently wrote the book about her,” Jonathan retorted. “Though, let me tell you, you were not subtle about her before that.”

“Then why’d you ask if it was her?”

“I like knowing my snark is tuned correctly.”

Harry sighed. “Yes, it’s about her. Anika says she can’t sell it, and I was fine with pining after Eliza from afar, but now she’s perhaps ended her engagement. What am I supposed to do?”

Jonathan looked as wearied by Harry’s mental state as Harry himself felt. “Problems have solutions,” he said, giving the folders on the desk a last nudge with his fingertip. “As to Eliza, you can get a grip and find some appropriate boundaries or you can be a human resources nightmare and send her an email like the gentleman that you are. Then you two can talk like adults who clearly have some sort of non-professional something going on.”

“What?!”

“She curls up in your office chair like she’s portraying domestic bliss in a coffee commercial.”

“Why do I ask for your opinions again?”

Jonathan drew himself up into his primmest, straightest posture.

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