With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Alicia Thompson
- Language: English
- Genre: Bisexual Romance
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LAUREN FOX HAD THE MOST BORING JOB AT THE COOLEST PLACE.
Literally, the coolest—it said it on the website and everything. If you felt the
sudden urge to build a snowman or ice skate in Central Florida, Cold World
was the place to do it. Lauren was Cold World’s bookkeeper, meaning that
she was mostly holed up in her office, which was kept just as frigid as the rest
of the place, reconciling bank records and paying vendor invoices and
making sure the Zamboni didn’t get repossessed.
She loved her job, though. There was something so satisfying about
entering numbers into spreadsheets, sorting the data into different
permutations, and keeping her filing cabinet like a finely manicured garden of
color-coded folders. And there was something just a little magic about
stepping into a blast of winter every Monday through Friday, no matter how
humid and gross the Florida air was outside.
Like today, the first day of December, clocking in at a muggy eighty-three
degrees. Lauren had dressed in her usual uniform of skirt, tights, button-up,
and cardigan, holding her arms slightly away from her body in hopes of
staving off the sweat until she could reach the relief of a central airconditioning system that set Cold World back four figures a month in the
dead of summer.
It hit her in a wave as she walked through the front door, the air frigid
with a slight whiff of cinnamon. They’d been decorating for Christmas since
before Thanksgiving, because it was obviously their biggest holiday. The
front ticket counter was draped with garlands, and giant ornaments hung from
the ceiling. Life-sized reindeer statues, spray-painted with glittery silver and
gold, stood watch in one corner, and the finishing touches had almost been
put on the twelve-foot tree they put out in front of the gift shop every year.
The converted warehouse building opened up to the right of the ticket
counter, holding the Snow Globe, an enclosed area kept even colder with
real, actual snow on the ground. (It was a little icier than people expected,
and not the best for snow angels, but hey, it felt miraculous when you could
drive an hour away and be at the beach.) Then there was the small ice skating
rink, and Wonderland Walk, a lane flanked by stands selling hot chocolate,
warm cookies, and various artisanal goods.
Lauren didn’t have much reason to go right. The administrative space was
to the left—the Chalet, as they called it for the decorative faux ski-cottage
front that hid the entrance to the offices, the break room, and the storage
space. That was where she spent most of her day, and thank god, because it
was at least moderately warmer than the rest of Cold World.
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