Hired By The Unexpected Billionaire by Susan Meier

Author:Susan Meier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2020-06-13T16:57:18+00:00

But the sound of the elevator door opening rippled down the hall. Danny had kicked open the master bedroom door and hadn’t closed it. Anybody stepping out would have an unobstructed view of the corridor, into his room.

He lifted his head, stifling a groan over being interrupted when he least wanted to be.

The list of people authorized to get that day’s code raced through his brain. He jumped off the bed and into his pants. “This could only be one of about seven people.” He smiled at her. “Let’s hope it’s Arnie, the doorman.”

She pushed herself up onto her elbows. “I’m guessing that’s best-case scenario?”

Yanking a T-shirt over his head, he said, “Yeah. You stay. I’ll be right back.” Then, unable to help himself, he bent across the bed and brushed a quick kiss across her mouth.

Everything inside him wanted to slam closed the bedroom door and crawl back into bed with her. But one or two of the people who knew the code would have come looking for him. Jace for sure. Charlotte a definite maybe. And Mark—

“Hey, Danny?”

Damn! It was Mark!

Even as he thought that, his father, Mark Hinton and Penny Fillion, his fiancée, peeked down the hall.

He hoped he didn’t look like the jumbled mess that he felt.

“Hey...”

He ambled up the corridor, picking up his discarded shirt and rolling it into a ball that he tossed into the guest bathroom, trying to look calm and composed and not like he’d just had desperate sex with a woman he might be falling in love with.

Oh, Mark would love that. He’d give him a sermon on responsibility. Or maybe safe sex—

Oh God! Acting like a real father after thirty years of nothing?

That was the thing about Mark that really rattled him.

“What do you want, Mark?” If his voice came out gruff and angry, so be it. The simple high of having made love to the most beautiful woman he knew evaporated. “You can’t just pop into my house.”

Even as he said that, he heard a door close behind him. He turned, saw Marnie, fully dressed, walking up the hall. She said, “Rex is asleep.” Then seeing Mark and Penny, she smiled. “Hello.”

“Marnie, this is my biological father and his fiancée, Penny Fillion.” He motioned to tall, slender Mark with white hair now growing on his formerly bald head and short, sweet Penny, who had long yellow hair and bright blue eyes. “Mark, Penny, this is Rex’s nanny, Marnie.”

To her credit, Marnie casually reached out and shook hands with them both.

“I was just telling Mark that he shouldn’t just barge in.”

“I’m sorry,” Mark said, turning to Marnie. “I apologize if you just got the baby to sleep, but I needed to talk to my son.”

The easy way my son spilled from Mark’s lips sent a crackle of annoyance up Danny’s spine. He’d known this man was his father less than three months. Yet Mark behaved as if he’d been around for softball games and soccer practice.

Much kinder than Danny, Marnie smiled.

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