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Jingle This!
Book: Jingle This! Read Online Free
Author: Stephanie Rowe
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company's future we're talking about here. Angie has to get it together by the time she submits her story for tonight. You're the head of Creative. Edit her stuff, or better yet, write it yourself. You can't go run off and buy ties while the company crashes and burns."
    Roger grinned and slugged Kyle on the shoulder. "Sure I can. That's why you're my partner. I pay the bills, you save the day. It's worked so far, right?"
    "But it's not working now."
    "Then you're not doing your job, are you?"
    Kyle swore under his breath. "Listen, Roger. It's your decision if you don't want to help run this company, but if that's the case, you need to get out."
    Roger rolled his eyes. "Not this crap again. I'm not selling my half of the company to you, so forget it."
    "If you don't, you might find yourself with a valueless asset in six weeks."
    "You won't let that happen."
    Son of a bitch. They both knew Roger was right. This company had been Kyle's dream, his vision. The only reason he'd brought Roger in was for the funding, and he wasn't going to give up on it. Roger knew him too well. Kyle would run himself into the ground before he'd give up on it, and they both knew it. "Fine. I'll talk to Angie."
    "Good luck. She nearly stabbed me with the turkey fork when I broke up with her. She's a bit volatile."
    Great. That's all he needed, to have to deal with some broken-hearted woman with violent tendencies. He wasn't the touchy feely type who could sweet-talk her into happiness. "Thanks for the warning. I'll wear my bulletproof vest when I meet with her."
    "Good plan. I'll see ya." Roger socked Kyle in the arm again, then ducked out the door in search of a tie, whistling cheerfully.
    For a split second, Kyle felt a twinge of envy. When was the last time he'd whistled? All he did was work and lie awake at night, sweating about every nickel leaving the company's coffers. He almost envied Roger, and his ability to simply not worry about things. What would it be like to be so into a woman that the world could crash down around him and he wouldn't care?
    Hell. As if the day would ever come when he'd cut out of work to buy a damn tie to impress a woman. Roger had gone soft, and he was heading the company toward certain doom.
    Unless Kyle could stop it. And the task started with Angie Miller.

Chapter Two
    The larger the diamond you buy for your true love, the more useful it will be for grinding into their forehead when they announce they are leaving you.
    –Angie Miller
    Angie stared at the computer screen.
    It was only December second.
    She still had twenty-four stories to go.
    She'd never make it.
    For the twentieth time in the last hour, she growled at herself for such negative thoughts. She was going to make it. She was a brilliant writer. No broken heart was going to stop her from writing fantastic and compelling prose.
    "Um, Angie?" Heidi stuck her head in the door, wearing a Santa hat and a fake beard. Her auburn hair was tumbling down past the white brim, making her look adorable instead of like a crazy bearded woman. "Got a sec?"
    "Sure, unless you're going to wax poetic about the great elfin sex you and Quinn had last night. I'm really not in the mood for that." Not that she was ever really in the mood for that conversation. Heidi and Quinn's sex life far eclipsed any interesting stories she'd ever had to tell about her and Roger. And now that she had no sex life at all to compare? Even worse.
    "Actually, Quinn had to work late last night. He didn't even see my elf outfit." Heidi walked in and stood, her arms folded loosely across her chest, then hanging by her side, then across her chest again.
    "What's wrong with you?" Angie leaned back in her chair, watching her friend's restless movements with growing trepidation. "What's wrong?" Fear rippled through her. "There's nothing wrong with you and Quinn, is there?" As hard as it was to hear about hot elf sex, Angie loved how happy Quinn and Heidi were. "You guys are okay, right? I'm sure he
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