The Billionaire's Babysitter by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leslie North

Laine looked up from her puzzle book when she heard a noise. It sounded like a zap and someone bellowing “FUCK!” at top volume. She put down her pen and went toward the sound. Slipping into the sitting room, she crept up on him in his unlikely crouch over the table, games spread out surreptitiously.

“Are you….practicing?” she whispered.

Startled, he jumped. Buzz! “Fuck!” he shouted, dropping the tweezers and jumping back. She doubled over laughing.

“Mr. Adrenaline is sneaking around on Tiki time to practice Operation!” she crowed.

“I was trying to distract myself from the lack of work productivity due to Internet outages,” he said hotly. “This relaxes me.”

“Clearly, since you were shouting FUCK at the top of your lungs. You seem really calm. I think you couldn’t stand getting your ass kicked at a kids’ game.”

“You had years of practice. It’s like trying to defeat a chess master your first time sitting down to a board!”

“Ha! I’m the master. The Mistress of Operation. Which sounds kind of like I own an S&M dungeon. Cool.”

“Can you go get food? I didn’t eat.”

“There’s fish in the refrigerator,” she said. “Unless you can’t tear yourself away from the game table.”

“I may eat that tomorrow,” he said. “I could go for a taco.”

“Thanks to your leg jewelry you can’t ‘go’ anywhere but I could pick you one up.”

“You’ve spent more time in Wrightsville Beach than I have, what’s the best place to eat?”

“Oh, God. Da Maria is heaven.”

“Italian?”

“More like paradise, but it’s killer expensive. I saved up for two months once to eat there. It was so worth it. And if I didn’t waste all my salary on toothpaste and tampons, I’d eat there every month. I had gnocchi with mushrooms and…wow, I’m making myself hungry. So, what kind of taco do you want?”

“I may have to try that restaurant sometime. Right now, I’ll take a shrimp taco and a chorizo with poblanos. Corn shell.”

“Okay, I’ll go…find that. Be back soon.” She grabbed the keys and took off.

When she got back, he was on the phone, probably trying to do business without Internet service. Knowing how kinetic he was, how intense and energetic, it must be killing him to be locked up like this and now cut off from the world. She felt a pang of sympathy for him, but she left the tacos on the table and went to watch a movie. She had expected him to come in and join her, but his phone call must have taken forever. Slowly, she nodded off, having some strange dream that mixed up Antonio Banderas in the Mask of Zorro with Wyatt. They had that same physicality, the same sensuality and mischief, and somehow her subconscious had confused the two. She could hear the movie faintly in the background but she kept her eyes shut because she liked where her dream was going.

When Laine woke, she was being lifted. Wyatt Anderson had scooped her up in his arms and was carrying her up the stairs in his muscular arms.

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