By a Thread by Lucy Score
Dominic
I managed to get her fired. Okay, so I was having a rough day and decided to vent to a passerby in a pizza parlour. But Ally Morales is everything but innocent. In my office on her first day of work after being hired by my mother, she demonstrates this.
Therefore, perhaps her outrageously obnoxious and seductively colourful personality cheers up the magazine’s offices, which have been feeling like a prison for the past year. She clashes with me in front of the editing crew, which may be why I like it. And perhaps those brown eyes and that incisive tongue haunt my fantasies after hours.
However, it doesn’t follow that I’ll be the next Russo-man to abuse his power.
I may be an asshole from a previous generation, but I am not my father.
She is pushing herself to death at six fruitless jobs for an unknown secret she doesn’t feel like telling me. And I’ll cure everything. Don’t call me sentimental. She is merely a problem that needs to be solved. I’ll be able to remove all those layers once I can persuade her to stop. Then I can return to preserving the family name and put the dancing, beer-slinging brunette out of my mind.
Ally \sHa. Hey, Grumpy Grump Face, hold my beer.
By a Thread by Lucy Score
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This is the ideal grumpy-boss love story! Delightful office enemies-to-lovers romance make up this book. Dominic, a 44-year-old grump, is feared by his coworkers. He is furious when Ally, who had Ally fired from the restaurant she worked at because she was nasty to him, is hired by his mother. But his yearning to get close to her and his desire to convince her to leave this job is at odds with one another. Both he and she have their share of secrets. He’s dubbed “Charming” by her. He refers to her as “Maleficent.” This book is adorably humorous, charming, and really hot.
She is working six jobs in an attempt to make ends meet while his family owns a prominent fashion magazine. On their first date, he manages to get her fired from one of her jobs serving pizza. An epic love story starts when his mother feels horrible and employs her for their magazine.
This plot may be your standard “grumpy grump hottie,” but it is very well written, and the exchanges between the two major characters are hilarious. Dominic is a stuffy grump who has been persuaded to assist in tidying up his father’s mess by his mother’s fashion magazine. When he runs into his mother at a pizza joint, Ally, the waitress, and he gets into a screaming war. Ally thinks Dominic is a haughty a-hole who is uppity and unpleasant. Of course, Dominic fires her, and his mother is so upset about it that she gives Ally a position at her publication.
The sexual chemistry between these two is evident, and sparks fly. They are unable to determine whether to kill one another or beat one another to death. Although the tale moves along smoothly and there are laughs throughout the entire book, both MCs have a lot of baggage to cope with.
