Designing Happily Ever After by Ellie Hall

I’m an admitted Type-A go-getter. If there are goes to be gotten, I’m the one to get them.
Or something like that.
Don’t get me started on how my knack for interior design is a cover-up for my internal struggle—anxiety and I are old frenemies. I probably shouldn’t think about my dysfunctional family, either. Everyone has one of those, right? And lastly, we won’t discuss how I’m officially in my forties and not exactly where I expected to be in life.
Where is that, you wonder? On the set of the new House and Landscaping TV show Designed to Last. It was the brainchild of my besties and me.
#Ladybosses
Except there’s one problem and his name is Buck McDermott. The Viking-like blacksmith who I have to work with in order to transform this dump isn’t going to last much longer if he doesn’t obey the @DomesticDiva aka, me, Christina Abernathy (I even have an official blue checkmark on my social media).
My project. My rules.
There’s just one problem. He wants to rule this roost. Isn’t that adorable? The six-foot-five, red-haired, and bearded beast thinks he can best me? Bwah ha ha. Plus, he’s too much like my ex.
Because there’s one thing I know for sure, even though Designed to Last is the name of my show, relationships don’t. There’s no such thing as a happily ever after. Well, he does do this one cute thing with his lips when he’s concentrating on hot molten metal.
But we won’t talk about that either…or our secrets. Nope.