Daddy CEO: A BILLIONAIRE SECOND CHANCE BABY ROMANCE
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We kissed until I was out of breath until my lips throbbed and I pulled away from him.
“Would you have thought eleven years ago, no twelve, when we first met, that we’d be here now?” I asked him.
I was rolled up in his arms now. We both managed to make ourselves comfortable in the one chair. Cliff’s fingers were in my hair. He was stroking my head gently.
“No, Piper, I didn’t think I could make you happy like this,” he replied. I looked up at him with crossed brows.
“That’s silly because I always knew. I knew that if I could be with you, then I would be happy. You’re all I ever wanted, and now you’ve given me Isabel and this life.”
I smiled and kissed the bottom of his chin. When he smiled back, his dimples deepened in his cheeks, and I knew I would never get over him, even if I tried.
“Me too. I knew you’d make me happy too. I just had no confidence in myself. You were too out of my league,” he replied.
Then he kissed me again, and I could feel myself floating above us. I could see us now, kissing and hugging and staying together. My life was good. It was better than good and better than I could have ever imaged it could be.
Upstairs in her nursery, Isabel was asleep in her cot. She would always know that her mommy and daddy loved each other. I was so excited about the future. We followed our hearts, and now our lives were full of love.
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Beth
The team meeting was in full swing, and I was still thinking about Vince Woods.
It wasn’t like I wanted to daydream about him. I would have much preferred to just focus on the meeting, forget about that hot body and move on with my life. After all, it wasn’t like something like that was ever going to happen to me again, not to a girl like me.
It was a fluke, a freak accident, and I was pretty sure that he regretted it already. He was probably just too drunk to even remember.
Our team leader, Nathan, was pointing to the graphs on the board. He took stats really seriously, laying all his trust in them for projecting what our future tactics should be.
Like a lot of things in my life, being a part of a trendy social media marketing agency was not something I pictured for myself. I wasn’t exactly one of the popular girls in school or in college. I kept myself to myself, never venturing out of my immediate friends' circle which comprised of my two best friends Suzy and Gia. I studied hard, focused on my grades and practiced my art as a hobby.
I was always creative, but academics were given first priority in my family. So, I did my math and chemistry and agreed that becoming an engineer or an economist would be more fulfilling as a career than a photographer.
After all, where was photography going to lead me?
This job happened by accident. Just like sleeping with Vince Woods, one of the hottest NFL players in the country; happened by accident too.
I got hooked to social media pretty early, not because I wanted to display my ‘happening’ lifestyle to the rest of the world; but because I was curious about how it worked. Pretty soon, I’d figured out how trends functioned, the technicalities of these platforms and as soon as I got out of college—Soletraders offered me a job based on my blog.
They were a brand new social media marketing company and were looking for young people to join their teams, who intrinsically understood the way the internet and these platforms worked. I was one of them.
Coincidentally, I happened to have a working knowledge of photography, which was another skill they were impressed with. I joined the company when I was twenty-one, and within two years I was already working with my own clients.
Back then, there weren’t too many of these companies around. We were one of the firsts and in high-demand. Fast forward five years and everyone was on social media. Everyone wanted a piece of that cake. And our agency happened to be one of the few companies in the country with a lot of experience in the industry.
At the tender age of twenty-eight, I was already an expert in the field and highly regarded by my peers. Nathan trusted me, and I still couldn’t believe I now found myself in such a ‘cool’ position.
It was refreshing to be seen working at a company like this one—with the fancy cafeteria and open plan offices, bean bags and sleeping pods in the rec-rooms. Within just a few years, our agency had gone from being pointless to hot, and I was at the center of this—a nerdy small-town girl from Portland, who was supposed to study engineering but had somehow ended up here, in one of the hottest companies in New York.
But my past and my future and the wonder of it all—were not the things I was thinking about at this meeting today. My mind was filled with thoughts of Vince Woods. About how I’d slept with one of the most desirable men in the country, and I couldn’t tell anyone about it.
I didn’t even realize I was attracted to men like him. He was big, tall, muscular, with dark hair and neatly trimmed facial hair. He had the strength to swing me around in his arms like I weighed nothing. I've seen those tattoos under his shirt, and they had turned me on even more. I don't even watch NFL! The only reason I knew who he was was that Gia and Suzy were gushing over him as he walked towards us across the nightclub floor.
I knew I shouldn’t have gone on that trip to Miami. Spontaneous weekend vacations weren’t my thing. I preferred planning and to-do-lists, but Gia and Suzy had talked me into it. Now, look what I’ve done. I ended up having a one-night stand with a man who wouldn’t even remember my name!
My cheeks flushed in the middle of the meeting, and I stared down at my lap, trying not to give myself away.
One night stands weren’t my thing either, and now I couldn’t stop thinking about him and how hot the sex was. How did other men and women do it? How did they just sleep with someone and get over them the next morning? Maybe it was because they detached themselves from feeling anything? Perhaps I found it difficult because I was foolish enough to actually like him and to enjoy his company in the short time that we talked.
Going to Miami for the weekend and sleeping with Vince Woods was the most spontaneous thing I had done in my life and now I regretted all of it. I wished I could go back to feeling nothing and to not be thinking about this guy that I couldn’t have.
“Beth?” Nathan’s voice snapped me out of it, and I looked up at him with a deer-in-the-headlights expression on my face.
“Hi,” I mumbled, hoping he didn’t have anything important to ask me. Nathan smiled, with an expectant look on his face.
“Is there anything you would like to add to that, Beth?” he said. I gulped and shifted in my chair, trying to come up with something, anything to say. I hadn’t heard a word of what he had been saying.
“No, nothing. Absolutely nothing,” I said, hoping that was going to work, and thankfully it did. Nathan looked away and turned his attention to someone else. I breathed in and shook my head.
I needed to do something about this private obsession that was taking over my life.
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Vince
I wasn’t sure how to handle them. There were three kids in my house other than me with no adult supervision. Most of the time, I found I needed my very own adult supervision to stop me from doing something stupid.
But now I had Evie, Oscar, and Isabel to look after, and for some strange reason my friends seemed to think that I would do a good job of it.
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They were practically babies. Evie was the oldest, nearly four, while Oscar and Isabel were between one to three. I lost track. In my eyes, they were toddlers and not much differentiated one from the other. One of the girls showed me how to change diapers, and I had no idea what I would do when the time came to actually do it.
Thankfully, Isabel, the youngest, was sleeping all the time, so I had one less baby to worry about. Evie was running around a lot and saying things which I didn’t understand. Oscar had recently started making sounds and trying to say words too. So those two were a handful.
Under the girls’ strict instructions I wasn’t supposed to let any of them out of my sight, not even for a moment. How was I supposed to take a piss?
I took their instructions very seriously and made sure I avoided all liquids all morning, so I didn’t have to go to the bathroom.
What madness had possessed my friends to assume I would actually be able to do this?
I loved these kid. They were family to me, and I would have done anything to protect them, but entertaining them and making sure their bottoms were clean wasn’t exactly my cup of tea.
Still, it was my turn to help out with the family. I think that I will look into hiring a nanny for the next time though.
Before I even knew what was happening, we had turned into one big family. Just a few years ago, it was the four of us Sawyer, Isaac, Cliff, and I. Just four guys who knew each other since college and we were best friends. It was Sawyer who dropped first. He fell in love with Faye, and they had Evie. Then it was Isaac. He and Margo had Oscar. Then it happened to Cliff. He was the guy I didn’t expect to actually fall in love and have a family. He rekindled his long-forgotten romance with Piper, and before we knew it, Isabel was born. Within four years we went from four to ten.
It kept us busy, and I was now always surrounded by my friends who were family, but I had to admit that I was overwhelmed by it all. Since Isabel’s birth, over a year ago everyone was now looking at me. They hoped that I would find someone too and complete the circle, but the truth was that my friends didn’t have any real expectations of me.
I was never in a relationship. I had also never fallen in love. The closest I came to having a girlfriend, was a French supermodel two years ago who I was sleeping with for a month straight. But I didn’t speak French, and she didn’t speak English, and it was never going to work out. That relationship was based on little more than sex, and my friends didn’t approve.
I liked my life like this. I dated beautiful women. I played my game and traveled the world, and thankfully, I was still able to maintain my privacy. I stayed out of the limelight and the media as much as I could and dedicated my free time to my friends. Being around these kids filled me with joy, but I knew I would panic and run for the woods if I had to have one of my own.
I wouldn’t be able to deal with that kind of responsibility, and my friends knew that too.
They were expecting me to turn into their forever-bachelor friend who was the fun uncle for the kids.
Today I was sitting in my living room on the carpet with Evie and Oscar, while Isabel slept in her cot beside us. I cleared out all the furniture in the room earlier, because I was paranoid about one of them hurting themselves. Evie and Oscar were playing nicely with the building blocks, and I watched over them, trying to resist the urge to go to the fridge and pull out a can of cold beer.
I needed to stay focused on these kids, and I needed to avoid the bathroom so I couldn’t drink.
Now that I had nothing to do, my mind drifted to my recent Miami trip. I just got back three days ago. I met a girl named Beth. Did she say her name was Beth Thomas?
I decided I was thinking about her this often because the sex was explosive. The reason for that was probably because it was so unexpected from her.
From a distance, she seemed shy, refusing to meet my eyes, dressed in a Boho-chic floral dress that hung loosely over her shoulders. Her wavy chestnut hair was messy around her shoulders as she tried to dance with her friends, and was clearly so uncomfortable in that nightclub scene.
I wasn’t quite sure what had attracted me to her. I was too drunk to remember clearly right now. But I remember noticing her and being drawn to her. Maybe it was because she looked so different from all of the other girls in their flashy sequin dresses and glittery makeup. Beth looked simple, and casual as if she just walked into the nightclub from the beach. She stood out.
Now, in my house, while I was supposed to be watching my friends’ kids, I was fantasizing about this girl, who I would definitely never see again. It was the sex. It was just the sex and nothing else.
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