By a Thread
Lucy Score
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
4.01
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 147 ratings · Published: 23 Apr 2020
Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.
So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.
She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
Ally
Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.
Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 21
- funny 19
- boss & employee 14
- enemies to lovers 11
- workplace/office 11
- ceo/tycoon hero 10
- rich hero 10
- angst 9
- slow burn 9
- sassy heroine 9
- grumpy/cold hero 7
- alpha male 6
- take-charge heroine 6
- tortured hero 6
- poor heroine 6
- dual pov 5
- older/mature 4
- forbidden love 4
- tortured heroine 4
- forced proximity 4
- grumpy & sunshine 4
- cheerful/happy heroine 4
- latinx mc 4
- working class heroine 3
- possessive hero 2
- class difference 2
- secret relationship 2
- independent heroine 2
- curvy heroine 1
- bad boys 1
- competent heroine 1
- pregnancy 1
- first person pov 1
- good grovel 1
- m-f romance 1
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- mental illness 3
- third party sexual assault 2
- abuse 1