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Getting Lucky Who is She?
KadenCubicles made up of white partitioning spread like a maze across the floor. There were no personal effects around the workspaces yet. No doubt, the picture would be a little different in a couple of weeks as the recruits settled in.But for now, it was stark. White. Impersonal and organized. The energy here was different too. The air was thick with nervousness, apprehension, uncertainty, and hesitation, with just a touch of pride and cockiness for having made it this far.If only they knew what was waiting for them. Half of them wouldn’t last a month, and that was out of those who would still have a job come lunchtime.I found the recruits and the trainer, a guy I thought was called Craig, in the big conference room at the back. He was in the middle of a slideshow presentation showing the layout of the building and the emergency exits when I opened the door.He did a doubletake when he saw who was disturbing him, his brown eyes widening as he stammered, “Mr. Marx. Sir, I, uh, I
Getting Lucky I Know Him
EMBERKaden fucking Marx. There was a blast from the past I hadn’t seen coming. Of course, I probably should have put it together.Marx wasn’t such a common last name, and I always knew my brother’s best friend came from a family with more money than god. In the back of my mind, I also knew Kaden was in New York with Ryan. He mentioned it once. I just never thought I would end up working with the dick who held the top spot in my list of middle-school crushes. Crap. My heart nearly burst out of my chest when he walked into the conference room with that familiar swagger and the same smirk I had never forgotten.Kaden Marx. Well how about that?The beautiful bastard was just as beautiful and just as much of a bastard as he’d always been. Really, being as hot as him should have been a crime. And that was back in school.Time had been far too good to a dick like him. If anything, he’d grown to become even more good looking than ever before. And he’d always been a showstopper.He had the
Getting Lucky My Brother's Best Friend
EmberCraig tried to lighten the mood by saying, “He’s not usually quite so brash. Don’t worry too much about it. He’s a fair boss and a good person.”The raised eyebrows around me were enough to convince that no one believed a word of what Craig said. Moving along swiftly, he finished his presentation and sent us out to our cubicles.Gracie and I snagged two next to each other and started packing away our purses and the few odds and ends we’d brought with us. For me, it was a small stuffed elephant Ryan had won for me at a fair when I was four.It was ratty, but clean, and the same good luck charm I’d had with me throughout every single phase of life, from the day he proudly presented it to me at that fair. He was eight at the time, missing a few teeth, and when he handed it over, his chest was swollen with pride for having won it.“Okay, everyone.” Craig’s voice boomed from the front of the massive office—bullpen, I corrected myself mentally. “Insert your name as a username, and a c
Getting Lucky Recognition
KADEN“Do I have to do everything myself?” I muttered the question to my empty office. My cursing rang out in the air, along with the low hum of the air conditioning, the lights, and the soft rain pelting my office window.My assistant’s voice came through the intercom shortly after my door had closed behind her. “Did you say something, sir?”“No,” I snapped, shaking my head at the folder she had handed me not a minute before. The work was stuff that could be done by the recruits downstairs. I had no idea how it had filtered up or down the line to me.She should have picked up on it. After five years, I’d think she’d know how to do her job as well as I could do mine. Yet I was going to have to run the file down to the training floor myself now.I contemplated calling her back in and making her take it down, but then I decided against it. I wanted to check on the recruits anyway. The beautiful girl popped into my mind every so often, and I thought if I could get another look at her, it
Getting Lucky What Did I Say?
KadenEmber followed me without needing to be told or waiting for an invitation. Good. She didn’t need to be coddled. She was shaping up to be exactly the kind of recruit we needed more of in the firm.“You have a bit of an accent,” I told her as I motioned for her to precede me into the elevator. “Where are you from?”“Texas,” she replied, seemingly holding back laughter. Her eyes crinkled at the corners, amusement shining in her eyes. The more I looked at her, the more familiar she was.Cheekiness wasn’t something I valued in underlings at all, but in her, it felt kind of natural. The quality made me want to smile instead of pointing her to the door.“Texas, huh?” I smirked. “I’ve spent some time in Texas.”“Imagine that.” She bit her lip, but not in the wannabe sexy “I’m trying to draw attention to my mouth” way that some women did. It was in a genuine “Oh god, I’m about to crack up laughing” kind of way.It was a young, almost carefree reaction most recruits wouldn’t dare show in
Getting Lucky Dropping In
EMBER“What a week.” Gracie flopped onto the couch in our living room with a bowl of yogurt, still wearing her pajamas even though it was after nine on a Friday morning.I dragged a spoon through my own bowl, but really, who wanted plain yogurt with chopped-up fruit for breakfast? It was a travesty that it could even be called breakfast if there was no bacon in sight.“Yeah, it was rough,” I agreed, though the work wasn’t the difficult part of it for me. Kaden was. Watching him scramble to figure out who I was had been fun. Okay, he didn’t exactly scramble.Kaden Marx wasn’t the scrambling type. He was calculated, precise in his approach. Calm and completely in control, even though he obviously knew I knew something he didn’t. It was cool of him not to simply demand where we knew each other from when it was so clear we both did know each other.It allowed me to have a bit of unexpected fun on a Thursday afternoon. What ticked me off was that he knew it had been my birthday. The only
Getting Lucky Love You, Too
EmberWhen I finally reached my stop, it was a short walk to his office—made slightly longer by the fact that I made two wrong turns. But I was proud of myself when I found his building.“I’m here for Ryan Jordan,” I announced to a stone-faced receptionist.She clicked a few things on her computer then frowned. “Do you have an appointment?”“No,” I said, suddenly feeling stupid that I hadn’t thought to call ahead. But that was the point of a surprise, right? “I’m his sister. I came to say hi.”Her cold expression thawed, but she still looked puzzled. “I didn’t know Ryan had a sister, but hang on. Let me put a call through to his office.”A short while later, Ryan came striding into the reception area. There was a wide smile on his face as he opened his arms to envelop me in a huge bear hug. “Little sis. This is a surprise.”Even though I was still pissed at him, I walked right into his hug. Ryan smelled like home to me. He wore the same cologne he’d discovered in high school and never
Getting Lucky I Need You
KADENI woke up thanking god it was Friday. I looked forward to a weekend spent far away from the office and planned on calling Ryan to ask if he wanted to play golf with me on Saturday.But all that had gone to shit.Sitting at my desk, I was listening to Boyd Morrison, one of my biggest and oldest clients, tearing me a new one. “I’ve been with this company for a long time, Marx. If my business is being taken for granted, I’ll be happy to take it elsewhere.”“You’re not being taken for granted, Boyd,” I assured him calmly. I knew who I had to be in front of whichever client I was in front of. Morrison was a big fish in a big pond, but he wanted to feel like everyone was at his beck and call at any time. “It sounds like you’re frustrated with the company. What can I do to prove to you that we value you as much as we always have?”“Put me back on top, Kaden,” he demanded. “Your lackeys have fucked up my portfolio, and I need a solid game plan for how you intend to fix it.”His portfoli
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