A powerful CEO. Her new employee, who once was her high-school
bully. Fireworks soon ignite – but the question remains: Do people ever
really change?
June’s life is a dream come true. A confident, successful CEO of her
own company, she’s so different from the bullied, scared girl she was in
high school, sometimes she can’t believe those days were real.
That’s until one day, she finds none other than Arabella, aka The Queen
of Mean, working for her. Why in the world did her old tormentor take a
position at June’s company of all places?
And how come she’s so…different…too?
Fallen from grace, formerly rich Arabella is reduced to a paycheck-to-
paycheck lifestyle, and she wants June’s forgiveness – and soon, her love.
June fights her suspicions and her growing attraction to the woman who
once threatened to destroy her – until she can’t.
Just as June gives in to her feelings, her company comes under attack,
and there’s only one suspect: Arabella.
As she struggles to find the truth, June can’t help but wonder. Did
Arabella really change? Or did she just pretend so she could make good on
her old threat to destroy June?
Chapter 1
June
“There’s nothing worse than letting your ex-public enemy number one
walk through the front door of the company you built from the ground up.
You can’t let her work for you! She could wreck everything. Years and
years of work, just gone because she’s a tactless, classless, mean-girl
turdbag probably hell-bent on sabotage to make up for the fact that you
succeeded, and she didn’t.”
Summer Johnson, June’s best friend and often the only reason she’d been
able to hold onto her sanity over the years, especially in high school, had a
pained expression on her face. June felt every stab of that pain. She’d been
feeling it for the past two hours, ever since Davis Sutherland walked into
her office and gave her the files for the new hires.
“Do you remember how people used to make fun of us because we were
friends? Because we bonded over our names being Summer and June?”
Summer rolled her eyes. “Now you’re trying to change the subject.”
June wasn’t. She was trying to figure out how to approach the
conversation when deep down, she had just as many misgivings as Summer
did about her old nemesis breezing her way into her company.
As CEO, June trusted her HR department to make the best possible
choices. She’d learned years ago to relax and take a step back so she
wouldn’t go completely insane because she couldn’t micromanage every
single detail of her company.
Things had started out slow. She’d been halfway through her business
degree when, on her way to college, power walking down the sidewalk
because she was late for a group presentation, she’d snapped the heel clean
off her shoe. They weren’t a cheap pair either. She’d taken off both shoes