Never Trust the Boss

NEVER TRUST THE BOSS AN ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE THE ROSI BROTHERS BOOK ONE ARIA BLISS Never Trust the Boss is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Contains adult situations and not intended for young audiences. Copyright © 2023 by Aria Bliss Written by Aria Bliss www.ariabliss.com [email protected] All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or any other electronic or mechanical methods, without prior written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. 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FIRST EDITION ISBN (Original paperback): 978-1-948169-88-2 ISBN (Special Edition paperback): 978-1-948169-89-9 ISBN (eBook): 978-1-948169-87-5 Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS Books by Aria Bliss Chapter 1 Atticus Chapter 2 Indigo Chapter 3 Atticus Chapter 4 Indigo Chapter 5 Atticus Chapter 6 Indigo Chapter 7 Atticus Chapter 8 Indigo Chapter 9 Atticus Chapter 10 Indigo Chapter 11 Atticus Chapter 12 Indigo Chapter 13 Atticus Chapter 14 Indigo Chapter 15 Atticus Chapter 16 Indigo Chapter 17 Atticus Chapter 18 Indigo Chapter 19 Atticus Chapter 20 Indigo Chapter 21 Atticus Chapter 22 Indigo Chapter 23 Atticus Chapter 24 Indigo Chapter 25 Atticus Chapter 26 Indigo Chapter 27 Atticus Chapter 28 Indigo Epilogue Books by Aria Bliss Connect with Me Author Bio BOOKS BY ARIA BLISS The Mutter Brothers Truck You: A Hate to Love Small Town Romance Truck Me: A Grumpy-Sunshine Small Town Romance Truck Off: An Enemies to Lovers, Mistaken Identity Small Town Romance The Rosi Brothers Never Trust the Boss: An Enemies to Lovers Romance A Drunk Love Contemporary Romance Not for Me: A Fake Dating Romance Let Me Stay: A Friends to Lovers, Best Friend’s Sister Romance Lead Me Here: A Grumpy-Sunshine Romance Aside From Me: A Roommate to Lovers Romance Make Me Go: An Age Gap Romance Hearts of Watercress Falls Healing Hearts: A Second Chance at Love Small Town Romance Trusting Hearts: A Single Dad Small Town Romance Falling Hearts: A Secret Marriage Small Town Romance Laughing Hearts: A Best Friend’s Sister Small Town Romance Forgiving Hearts: A Hate to Love Small Town Romance Standalone Good Wine & Bad Decisions: A Sexy Romance An After-Hours Affair In Charge: Book 1 One Drink: Book 2 You’re Mine: Book 3 Charm Me: Book 4 Stuck Together: Book 5 (A Holiday Romance) CHAPTER ONE ATTICUS Atticus Fuck keeping my enemies close. This is war. Adonis Let me know if you need help hiding a body. Atticus Good to know you have my back. Adonis Anything for my big brother. Indigo Simons chose a side, and it wasn’t mine. For that, she has to pay. I don’t care if my behavior is childish or that my actions might be a tad bit inappropriate. She should have thought about that before she decided doing her fucking job was beneath her. I guess that’s what happens when the boss hires his daughter to be my assistant and doesn’t give me a choice in the matter. I need an assistant who’s competent and capable. One who knows how to use the meeting scheduler in Outlook, can take good notes, and has no problem working a copy machine. Hell, if Indie would at least write my appointments in a day planner, I’d be semi-pleased. But even that seems to be too much effort for her to put into her job. I suspect she can do it. She just doesn’t want to. Her apathy toward her job and her dad’s company is infuriating. I don’t understand why she’s even here. The fact that she hates me doesn’t help either. She didn’t even give me a chance. From day one, she’s treated me with contempt and has blatantly disregarded all my attempts to create a pleasant work environment between us. It’s as if she’s out to ruin my career, and I don’t know why. I’ve put up with it for far too long. I’m done playing nice. Yesterday’s debacle was the last straw. I had an important meeting to which the client arrived three hours early. When I asked Indie about the misunderstanding, she simply smiled and said oops. Fucking oops. She deliberately told the client the wrong time. Which meant I wasn’t prepared. I was still in the copy room, making my own damn copies of the report, because Indie can’t be bothered to figure out how to use the damn machine. Her sabotage made me look unprepared and disorganized, not only to the client but in front of my boss—her father, and the CEO and owner of SimTech Development. I’m probably the most organized person in this entire fucking building. So, yeah. It’s war. She may be the boss’s daughter and the heiress to his multi-million-dollar company, but that doesn’t mean I have to accept her sabotage. It’s a little before seven in the morning when I stroll into my office building and hit the call button for an elevator. SimTech shares a building with several other businesses in which we occupy the top three floors, forty-two through forty-four. My office is on the forty-third floor, but I’m working my ass off to earn one of the executive offices on forty-four. Which is why it would help if my assistant gave a shit about her job. Most of the employees on my floor don’t arrive until closer to nine—Indie included—but I like to get an early start. More like I need to get an early start. It typically takes me about an hour to figure