Call It What You Want
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  • Reads 19,245
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  • Parts 43
  • Time 4h 21m
Complete, First published Sep 16, 2021
Mature
🏅featured twice on Romance's reading list
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🏅featured twice on AmbassadorIN's reading list
🏅featured in one of the AmbassadorIN's books

❝We are not just friends or co-workers. But you can call it what you want.❞

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Laavanya Shaw has been going to her best friend's private island to spend summer with her family ever since she remembers. This one month trip has been Laav's favorite part of the year. Julie's cousins have made her feel welcomed and treated her as their own family--well, except for Ryker who has always seemed to despise her.

This year, however, things are different. She has been rejected by six job placements, losing feelings for her sweet boyfriend and cherry on top, Ryker has been unnaturally kind and open which makes Laavanya question his feelings.

But everything begins to spiral out when Ryker shows up unannounced at her new job and not just as an employee but rather as her boss. Despite being warned to not develop feelings for her new boss by her Editor In Chief, Laavanya finds it hard to stay away from Ryker--not when he can't stay away from her either. And worst of all? It doesn't seems like he hates her after all.

Either way, things are about to get really, really messy.

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