My Fake Husband by Black, L. (motivational novels TXT) 📕

when he tells her what he won’t stand for, and he lets her have her way. My mom looks ten years younger already. Just because she’s had some free time and some help. I feel like crap for not doing more but—”

“You’ve got your hands full at the fire station. I know that. Your family knows that. And you take him to dialysis every week, right?”

“Yeah, but that’s not all there is to do. Laura coming back proved that all right. But my point is, she might be interested in the job.”

“Really? She’s sticking around?”

“Looks that way. She acts like she’s here for the long haul. And she gets stir-crazy staying around the house. My mom’s sick of her running the basement stairs for a workout, says it sounds like they’re being invaded.”

I shrugged, “Tell her to stop by. I’ll talk to her, see if it might work out,” I said.

I wondered to myself if Laura really wanted to downgrade to such a small community when she was on a good career track in Charleston. I knew family was important to her, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to hire somebody who might not stick around. The price and effort of training her only to have her move back if her dad started doing better or if some boyfriend came after her was an expensive risk. My department had a healthy budget thanks to our municipal priorities, but I was pretty conservative with expenditures. So I wasn’t going to splurge on a city cop who was only here for a season. I wasn’t a man who liked to be left empty-handed. It had happened in my personal life one time only, enough to keep me from ever wanting a broken heart like that again. The cost was too high. I always counted the cost. Whether it was professional or personal—and measured what the fallout might be.

So I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cringe a little bit at the thought of having to interview Damon’s little sister for a position. She would damn sure be qualified—that was the problem. She was also a flight risk—and I didn’t look forward to explaining to her or her brother why I had reservations about hiring her. I knew she’d be brash and full of ideas about how they did things in Charleston—I didn’t mind that. What I minded was investing time and capital in a trainee who fled to the city with that price tag trailing behind her. Employee retention—that was the buzzword I’d be using in the interview. I sighed. The administrative part of being chief as well as chief wasn’t without its migraines.

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Freeman Brother Series

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Millionaire Daddy

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Forbidden Lovers Series:

Billionaire Boss

Date Your Brother’s Best Friend

Falling for my Enemy

Forbidden Crush

Damaged

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Forbidden Lovers: A Contemporary Romance Collection

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Secret Daddies Series

His Secret Baby

CEO’s Secret Baby

Boss's Secret Baby for Christmas

Daddy’s Secret Baby

My Ex’s Secret Baby

Bad Boy’s Secret Baby

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Secret Daddies: A Contemporary Romance Box Set

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Alpha Male Collection:

Forbidden Daddy

Redemption

Protecting Her

Saving Sky

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Reverse Harem/Ménage Collection:

Double Dirty

The Cabin

Double Trouble

Training the Rookie

Cuffed to my Roomies

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Fake Marriage Collection:

Pretend You’re Mine

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Let’s Pretend

Faking It

Complete box set here: Playing Pretend

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Natasha L. Black is an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. Dreaming and fantasizing ever since she was a young teenager, her love of writing flourished from a very early age. After working for 15 years as a veterinarian, she now follows her passion in writing for a living. She currently resides in a lovely country home in a rural area of Dallas, writing steamy novels to fulfill her readers' desires.

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