JUICY
Chapter One
Bliss Johnson checked her things-to-be happy-about calendar.
Today's page listed beach roses and sailboats and velvety black
skies filled with stars. Lovely. But not part of summer in New
York. Almost everyone found a way to escape the hot sidewalks
and gritty air sooner or later and her office building
seemed oddly empty. Except for a few newcomers, recent college
grads whose evil parents were forcing them to seek gainful
employment.
Like her assistant-oh, make that her former assistant. Bliss
ripped the page off the pad and crumpled it into a ball, attempting
a tough diagonal throw into her wastebasket. She missed.
Okay, she would pick it up later, when her energy returned.
When she finished flipping through the calendar to see if it said
anywhere that going to Pittsburgh was something to be happy
about.
Kayla wouldn't think so. The baby-faced intern, three credits
away from a BA in media studies, had been Bliss's assistant
at Lentone Fitch & Garibaldi for only a week. Viola Lentone
had hired her. Kayla was so enthusiastic at first, eager to learn
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