By a Thread
Lucy Score
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
3.96
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 354 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.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 28
- funny 24
- boss & employee 20
- workplace/office 18
- rich hero 17
- sassy heroine 16
- slow burn 15
- grumpy/cold hero 15
- enemies to lovers 14
- ceo/tycoon hero 14
- angst 13
- tortured hero 12
- poor heroine 12
- alpha male 10
- working class heroine 10
- take-charge heroine 9
- forbidden love 9
- older/mature 8
- tortured heroine 8
- forced proximity 7
- secret relationship 7
- independent heroine 7
- m-f romance 7
- possessive hero 6
- grumpy & sunshine 6
- cheerful/happy heroine 6
- latinx mc 6
- competent heroine 6
- class difference 5
- curvy heroine 4
- good grovel 4
- caretaking 4
- new adult 1
- bad boys 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- third party sexual assault 7
- mental illness 6
- abuse 3
- geography
- north america 6
- new york state 4
- usa 3
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 13
- first person pov 5
- standalone 2
