Partners E-Book

Jae

• Herausgeber: Ylva Publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 36

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Ice queen Dee has never before shared the top spot with anyone. Running a new company with her girlfriend, Austen, is taking some getting used to, especially since Austen doesn't deem knocking heads together to be an acceptable leadership choice. When disaster strikes at work and their management styles clash, they're forced to figure out how to be as good together as business partners as they are lovers. It might take compromises and donut bribes, but they're determined to find a way. "Partners" is a short story sequel to Jae's award-winning lesbian romance Under a Falling Star.

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Other Books by Jae

Happily Ever After

Standalone Romances:

Chemistry Lessons

Wrong Number, Right Woman

The Roommate Arrangement

Just for Show

Falling Hard

Heart Trouble

Under a Falling Star

Something in the Wine

Shaken to the Core

Fair Oaks Series:

Perfect Rhythm

Not the Marrying Kind

The Hollywood Series:

Departure from the Script

Damage Control

Just Physical

The Hollywood Collection (box set)

Portland Police Bureau Series:

Conflict of Interest

Next of Kin

The Vampire Diet Series:

Good Enough to Eat

The Oregon Series:

Backwards to Oregon

Beyond the Trail

Hidden Truths

The Complete Oregon series (box set)

The Shape-Shifter Series:

Second Nature

Natural Family Disasters

Manhattan Moon

True Nature

Partners

by Jae

Austen capped the red marker, stuck it back into her cockatoo penholder, and studied the sketch with a satisfied grin. She couldn’t wait to hear what Dee would think. The candy cane–shaped chew toy had been her partner’s idea, and Austen had improved on it by making it a bird perch with a little bell at one end.

Even three months after establishing their company, she loved how smoothly they worked together.

She jumped up with a little too much vigor, sending her office chair halfway across the small room, and picked up the sketch to take it over to Dee.

As soon as she opened the door, a familiar booming voice reached her.

Back when they had both worked at Kudos Entertainment, shouting from Dee’s office hadn’t been anything out of the ordinary. Her uncle had made her the company’s problem fixer, so she had stepped in whenever an employee had messed up, a supplier couldn’t deliver, or something else had gone wrong.

But now her job no longer consisted of knocking heads together, and their tiny company had only two part-time employees, so what on earth was going on? Was Dee on the phone with someone?

Austen stepped closer.

Just as she contemplated knocking, the door was wrenched open, and Courtney, their administrative assistant, hurried past Austen without stopping. Her head was down and her shoulders up, like a turtle retreating into its shell.

What the…? Austen stared after her.

A loud thump against the wall drew her attention back to Dee’s office. Cautiously, Austen walked through the still-open door and stopped to pick up the stapler Dee must have hurled across the room. At least it hadn’t been the computer mouse she had given Dee for Christmas shortly after they had first met.

Dee was pacing back and forth in the small space behind her desk. The neat chignon she wore at work was coming undone as if she had run her hands through her hair repeatedly.

For a moment, Austen stopped, stapler in hand, completely mesmerized by Dee’s tall frame, her powerful movements, and the intensity radiating off her. Then she gave herself a mental kick. Stop ogling and find out why she’s having an Attila moment. She closed the door behind herself with an audible click to make her presence known.

Dee whirled around. When their gazes met, the fierce expression on her face softened for a moment.

“What’s going on?” Austen asked.

Dee snarled. “I’ll have to fire Courtney.”

The vehement words hit Austen like a sharp gust of wind, making her sway back for a second. Then she braced herself and dropped into the visitor chair. “First of all, if anything, we have to fire her.” She firmly set the stapler down on the desk. “We run this company together, don’t we?”

“Yeah, of course,” Dee said immediately. She eyed her desk chair and then reluctantly dropped into it so she was no longer towering over Austen. “When I tell you how badly she fucked up, you’ll want to fire her too.”

“What happened?”

Dee pinched the bridge of her nose as if a massive headache was forming. “She royally messed up the Kickstarter campaign for the parrot-friendly Christmas tree.”

“Wait! How can she have messed that up? That’s fully funded and practically done, isn’t it?”