Instead, he plants a (completely consensual) kiss on her that awakens something she hadn’t known existed. When Joshua hits the emergency button and stops the ride, Lucy is certain her nemesis is going to kill her. After yet another 60-hour work week, which now includes prepping for upcoming interviews, Lucy logs off of her computer (Password: to head home, but not before her rival hops into the elevator with her. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin Publishing and both Lucy's and Joshua’s bosses think their protégés would be the perfect choice. Lucy and Joshua’s daily interactions include the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Thus begins this hate-at-first-sight romantic comedy. When the two companies begrudgingly become one, so does the executive suite. Lucy is assistant to the CEO of the now-defunct Gamin Publishing, a Birkenstock-clad, free-flowing commune of literary purists. Joshua is assistant to the CEO of what was once Bexley Publishing, a numbers-crunching, foosball-playing frat house–cum-business. But, she’s got to admit, he is pretty cute.įrom the moment they meet, a result of the unwelcome corporate merger between their employers, Lucy and Joshua are at odds. He’s a pompous, self-important, obnoxious ass. Lucy Hutton absolutely detests her office mate Joshua Templeman.
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