On the Ice (Stick Side, #1)

by Amy Aislin

Cody’s laptop, which sat open on the island, beeped with an incoming message. Mitch opened the email, which turned out to be a Google Alert set for “Greta Westlake.” “Why are you keeping tabs on my mom?” “I want to make sure she’s not talking shit about you to anyone she shouldn’t be,” Cody said, falling into forward splits. Aww. That was his Codes. Always having his back. “Please.” Mitch clicked on the link. “She doesn’t give me a second thought, unless we lose a game.” The link took him to a job posting for an executive assistant to the CEO of Westlake Waterless Printing, Greta Westlake. Which meant that his mother had lost yet another EA. That made, what?—three?—in the past year, if the information he got from his dad was correct. It wasn’t at all surprising that nobody wanted to work for his mother. She was a difficult, unforgiving, ruthless woman who took no excuses and expected two hundred and fifty percent. She’d once fired an account manager who’d asked for a day off to grieve her recently deceased dog. And she’d fired a guy in accounting because he’d had the gall to ask for a week’s vacation that coincided with the company’s busy fall season. She got away with it because she had an excellent team of lawyers at her back. And she wondered why Mitch didn’t want to work for the family business. Yes, please. Sign me up for that bullshit. Not in this lifetime.