The Book Company Novels & Stories

"I have this big shot company coming in town to talk about merging even though I explicitly tell them no over the phone," "Of course," I lean back in the slightly uncomfortable chair. "I'll get started right away. Uh, which company?" "Xavier's and Co. Enterprises," she sighs not missing a beat. My heart immediately beginn to race by the mere mention of his stupid name. I swallow the lump of bile that rose in my mouth, I don't know why I feel so damn dehydrated all of a sudden. I need a big bottle of water. I think I might just chock on my very own spit... Or lack thereof.

Cela remains disappointed. "C'mon. It's not like they bought everything. They just thought of giving the books as Christmas presents apart from the corporate giveaways. You must know that your mother enjoyed your first book so much. Too bad that she passed before the second one is out," Nanny Rita continued. "You've always been loyal to her," Cela said.

They had always been able to maintain the innocence of their bond, but it was couples like Asha and Young that added a little kindling and a lot of reminders as to why those moments were so important. As Young stacked the mountain of books on the counter, the older woman rang them up while the man gently bagged them in their custom tote bags. Young was surprised to find that the actual name of the shop was ‘Book Haven.’ It came extremely close to Asha’s description of ‘book nook.’ “Find everything alright?” she asked. Young paused his unloading to watch Asha’s face light up like the sky on 4th of July. “Yes! It was so hard for me to pick just a few,” she excitedly relayed.

After that…. He left. [N•M•C LIBRARY] This place could be called a book coven. Smelled of new books,as soon as you enter this place, you'll be greeted with very long and wide bookshelf filled with different types of novels,all NAOMI'S. The workers were all doing one or two thing with their computer. The time was 7:45pm at night,but they were still working their asses off. *NAOMI'S OFFICE* ________________

The book I got from Grandma Felicia's house and the file Raymond handed me the other day stared back at me. Going through them might give us something for our next line of attack. I was not going to fold my hands and watch. Flipping open the book from Grandma Felicia, I returned to the page I stopped at last time. All it had done so far was connect ties of company ownership and change of ownership along the line. It was a difficult read because I was not interested in any of that. After many more minutes of flipping through the pages, I finally got to the parts I've been dying to get to, the ‘collapse’ of the company.

Clearly, she did not expect to have guests at this moment. She placed the book down and gave a comforting smile. “Hi, what kind of book do you want to buy?” Arabella only wanted to explore the book house and could not think of a book that she needed to buy. She said in a soft and gentle voice, “I will just take a look.” The lady boss nodded and left her alone. She sat down and continued reading her book while taking small sips of her coffee from time to time. Arabella scanned the interior of the book house. Although it was small, it still contained the essentials. The design was elegant yet peaceful, and there were all kinds of books orderly arranged on the bookshelves, which make it very ea

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She reached out to the place where the book should have been. It was now empty. The book was gone. Ruby froze. She frantically scanned the bookshelf, then the tables of the people reading nearby. No sign of it. No one was allowed to check out books from the Knight Corporation's library. No. She panicked inwardly. Where did the book go?

Seta once again point the shelf and Dawn nodded as a response. Dawn felt James presence in behind and then she realized what was her reason why she is in the book shop in the first place. She looked around the library and found out that there isn’t a guy, just like what James told her earlier. The library isn’t that big, it’s like five-hundred-meter square, without second floor, but there are a lot of books place in an eight vertically arranged bookshelves, minus the book tier in the corner. ‘Is James just fooling me?’ she thought pressing her lips together and simply gaze at James that are looking outside feeling tense.

Not a romance novel. [Erik: I assure you, Luna is going to have at least one book like that somewhere in that apartment. You should go on a scavenger hunt. What’s the company name? I’ll look it up] [Gerard: Scavenger hunt? Really? Company name is ‘Intelligent Design’] [Erik: All women have book boyfriends. You should probably see what you are up against. #BookBoyfriendvsAlphaGerard] [Gerard: Fuck off. *middle finger emoji*]