The Bee Charmer (Sweet Treat Series Book 2) Read Free Page A

secretary was a bad idea. Mainly because of the fact, that Mr. Allen Steiner had a Mrs. Allen Steiner to which he’d been married to for going on five years. She would hear off and on about the getaways every other weekend at his boathouse by the lake or one of his family’s homes along the beach. Pamelia always avoided getting annoyed by how she always felt that Virginia was rubbing it in her face that she had a man who took care of her needs and wants and she didn’t. Pamelia wanted to have a man that would love her for her and take care of her too. But she wasn’t about to make herself act like she was desperate and cheap. She had her pride. “So, where did you guys go to?”
    “Went to his cabin in the woods this time, oh it was beautiful there. He gave me this bracelet.” Virginia flashed the diamond tennis bracelet in her face, shaking it as it moved along her slender wrist.
    “It looks beautiful, I know it cost him a pretty penny.”
    “Over three grand he told me.” She gave her a wink. “Maybe I can get him to hook you up with someone. He has some lawyer friends as well who have big firms.”
    “Well, that’s good and all but I don’t think so.”
    Virginia shook her head as she always did when she would offer to hook her up and of course, she would make the snide comment of the day, “Why do you have to be so stuck up all the time when folks are trying to help you out?”
    All Pamelia could do was just shake her head. She had to deal with this on a daily basis. Either she had to hear about the sexual escapades of Virginia, the drunken escapades of Elizabeth or end up being the butt of Mr. Dawson’s snide remarks. If she could get a great paying job like this one somewhere else, she would’ve gotten one year ago but for now, she was stuck here.
    At times, it seemed like it would never ever happen.
    Lunchtime had come and she was thankful to get out of the office that day. Once again, she had Mr. Dawson on her ass about every single call that came in. It was her job take calls and direct them to whoever they were for, along with tending to the new customers that came in as well as making sure the front office was tidy and straight as well as the kitchenette in the back. He’d gotten on her nerves today, so Mr. Jones told her to go onto lunch and don’t bother coming back for an hour, even though her lunch break was only fifteen minutes.
    So here, she sat at the William’s Deli Shop, eating on some warm potato soup with crumbled bacon and cheese in a bread bowl, checking on her email from her Android phone. Pamelia was enjoying the time to herself, especially after dealing with crazy ass Mr. Dawson for most of the day. The phone rang and she noticed on the caller I.D. that it was her sister Veronica calling. “Hey girl,”
    “Why hey there, I didn’t disturb you at work did I?”
    “Oh no, I’m at lunch right now.”
    “I thought you were at work. Isn’t it kind of early to be at lunch?” Her sister Veronica knew her schedule just as well as Pamelia knew hers.
    “Well, Mr. Jones let me go to lunch early today. It’s been a hectic day in the office and Mr. Dawson was on the war path.”
    “I swear I don’t know why you don’t quit that job. Those people there are horrible as hell.”
    “I know they can be, but it’s really best to just ignore them because they have the issues and I don’t want to be like them, anyway.”
    “Well, you know you can always work over here with me.” Veronica owned her own restaurant that she named Margaret’s after their mother who’d passed away fifteen years ago. It turned out to be a very good business in the town where they grew up because everyone knew of their mother’s great cooking. Now she and Chris, her husband, had the place booming since she started to go into catering for weddings, office parties and other things.
    “You know if I work with you, I would probably end up killing you.”
    She heard her sister laugh.
    She knew Pamelia was