Saving Sloan

By Angelica Kate

Sloan's grandfather approaches Jax to protect his granddaughter, who is about to come into a sizeable inheritance. Jax has a reputation built upon years of special forces service, and this is a favor many years overdue. When he and Sloan finally come face to face after years of not seeing each other, the interaction gets personal fast. Now, he is worried that the only person she might need saving from is him!

 

Sloan is a workaholic, trained by her father to take on a multinational corporation while managing a fortune passed through generations. She is the first woman to hold the reins in the family to all their vast resources, and it is not a popular choice. When she is facing down every aunt, uncle, and cousin wishing her out of the way one way or the other, a savior appears in a sinful body and a cocky grin that has her suddenly focused on much more personal affairs.

 

In all the intrigue swirling around them, Sloan and Jax might have missed the biggest con artists of the group, plotting from nursing homes to get them together. Is this a love that overshadows all material wealth, or just stress relief as bodily protection?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angelica Kate
• Release date: Feb 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224873838

Angelica Kate

Angelica Kate writes contemporary romances with strong characters and inspiration to keep the readers coming back for more. She is a lifetime scribbler who has been journaling since an early age and finally parlayed that into more structured storytelling. Angelica loves strong female leads and the men that adore them, despite their scars and baggage. When not writing, she spends time on Florida's sunny shores near her home in Sarasota, FL, with her puppies Tesla and Harley Quinn, her daughters, and a host of kooky amazing friends. TWITTER: @AngelicaKate5 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/authorangelicakate INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/aknaff12/ Email Angelica directly: [e-mail] HAPPY READING AND CHASING HAPPINESS WHEREVER YOU CHOOSE TO FIND IT!!

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Saving Sloan

Angelica Kate

Copyright © [2024] by Angelica Kate

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 1

Sloan

I am telling you we are signing on as partners in the new development Pierson and Sons pitched us in your office on Monday. You can sign on and take part or get the hell out of the way, Braxton tells me with a menacing stare.

I balk at the rage rolling off of his body. I have never seen this side of my step-brother, and while I would love to think it is the grief of our shared loss bringing out this side of him, I’m afraid it is something else altogether. The will is being read tomorrow, as my father’s attorney has been attending to an urgent matter regarding one of our overseas factories since the funeral. It would be a lot of intricate work to get all my father’s dealings unraveled, as I knew there were many extended family members already sniffing around for their cut before Meredith and Braxton even made a scene. Half of these people I didn’t know existed until my father’s funeral ten days ago.

Cousins, second aunts twice removed, and others I’ve never met had flooded the funeral and asked about the will reading. I had thought them entitled and totally out of line, as I was forced to put on a stoic face and shake hands–all the time imagining the various ways I could do these people bodily harm. In generations past, due to the generational wealth and size of the company, more individuals in the family were involved than was the case today. Whether entitled from their current wealth, lost interest, or a variety of other causes, there was only myself and the little involvement of Meredith and Braxton in company affairs these days. Overall, Orion Industries was a huge multinational conglomeration of businesses run by an extensive board to help manage affairs. It had always been run by a token male member of the family, who was named to the CEO role. Not that it was a cakewalk position, as they possessed majority voting power with only a unanimous board vote able to overcome. Now, with my father gone and me his only child, speculation was rampant on who would be named to the role–as all honestly believed my father would not select me as I was a woman.

I was VP of Supply Chain, and while nepotism got me the position, unlike Braxton, I was a workaholic who enjoyed the many facets of my role and never asked others to do things that I wasn’t willing to do myself. It was how I felt you, as a leader, kept the respect of those who worked for you. I wanted to take the company into the next century in the black and explore even more avenues than we do today. Unfortunately, I figured it was feasible my father would have appointed one of the other senior managers or Braxton to lead the company, despite the latter’s apathy toward anything resembling work. No matter my last name, there was not a soul that was voicing support for me getting the nod to that role, even in these changing times. I didn’t have the strength to deal with the loss of my father, keeping the company affairs afloat until the change in management was announced, and Braxton was in my face daily.

You don’t even show up to the office but to make demands, I tell him with a weary sigh. You can’t waltz in here and think everyone is going to bow down to the great Braxton just because you grace us with your presence. That development came back with some major financial irregularities, and I want to do some due diligence. I’m not telling you no-

He lurches off the chair toward my desk as I stop speaking to step back with the safety of the large desk as added protection. This aggression today is not making me feel warm and fuzzy about the man. His mother babied him terribly, and normally, he left these interactions to that battle ax. I was not too fond of the growing emotional tirades he was presenting and hoped this also would end after the will reading. If my father put him in charge, I would have some tough decisions to make, as I honestly didn’t believe I would live this way long term.  

You can’t tell me anything as a fact, and if you think that temporarily sitting in this chair gives you control over me–think again, he growls.

Braxton’s mom was married to my father only for the last ten years, and thus, our relationship was more of that of casual acquaintances than anything else. I had been in high school when our parents married, and he was already in college. That did not stop Braxton nor his mother Meredith from constantly lording it over me in the convening years and trying