Millionaire Boss: A Secret Baby Romance (Freeman Brothers Book 1)

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by Natasha L. Black


  “It’s kept me honest several times, ” I said with a shrug.

  “Maybe you’ll budge a little for this one?” she teased.

  “You do realize his mom was my mom’s best friend, right? We grew up together, but he was older than me. The age thing is too much for my family anyway. Remember when I went out with Holden Drager that time? Three years older than me and my dad goes all out about how a man like that was only looking for one thing.”

  “Sex? Or, since someone three years older than you is decrepit and elderly, someone to help with his feeding tube and catheter?” she said, mystified.

  “No, a younger woman to get pregnant. So he could have a male heir.”

  “I’m sorry, did you go out with a slightly older dude or someone who was going to inherit the throne? Why would anyone need a male heir?” she laughed.

  “My parents are pretty traditional, and he was just being protective. He knows how much my bakery means to me, and they don’t want me getting involved with someone who would make me give that up to raise kids,” I said.

  “You make it sound like that’s reasonable. People don’t do that outside of, like, fairy tales and weird European monarchies.”

  “They’re looking out for me,” I said again, but with less conviction.

  “I’m sure they are. They’re great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s okay to have a little fun. If you think you need permission,” Connie said.

  “I don’t need anyone’s permission but my own. It just sounds like it would be a mistake. Stupid and fun and full of regret afterwards.”

  “It’s lunch, not an elopement in Vegas,” Connie pointed out.

  “Very funny. I’m not the spontaneous type. I get up at four in the morning and bake stuff. It’s my idea of living the dream. Like, see these,” I indicated the tray of tiny violets I’d sugared to use as cupcake decorations, “that’s what makes me happy, making something beautiful. I don’t have any business going out with a guy whose happy place is Scrooge McDuck’s vault of gold.”

  “Okay, you’ve convinced me it’s a bad idea. Now go dig some earrings and lipstick out of your desk, because we both know you’re going,” Connie said.

  I scrubbed my hands, set up my work station and decorated the cupcakes, placing each fragile violet with tweezers, balancing it just so in the center of a swirl of lemon buttercream. I felt a surge of satisfaction looking at them. I took a few pictures for the bakery’s Insta and placed the cupcakes in the cooler.

  Then I went and found a pair of dangly hoop earrings in my desk drawer and put them on. Out came the mascara and lipstick from my purse. I might have misgivings about having lunch with Ryan after all this time, but my vanity came roaring out of hiding. Jeans and a bakery tee were fine for work, but no way was I going to lunch with him makeup-free and in a hairnet. I shook my hair out and brushed it till it shone and considered getting Tyla at the salon to give me highlights soon.

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  Books by Natasha L. Black

  Forbidden Lovers Series:

  Billionaire Boss

  Date Your Brother’s Best Friend

  Falling for my Enemy

  Forbidden Crush

  Secret Daddies Series

  His Secret Baby

  CEO’s Secret Baby

  Boss's Secret Baby for Christmas

  Daddy’s Secret Baby

  My Ex’s Secret Baby

  Bad Boy’s Secret Baby

  Complete box set below:

  Secret Daddies: A Contemporary Romance Box Set

  Alpha Male Collection:

  Forbidden Daddy

  Redemption

  Protecting Her

  Saving Sky

  Protecting Sasha

  Complete box set here: Men in Charge

  Reverse Harem/Ménage Collection:

  Double Dirty

  The Cabin

  Double Trouble

  Training the Rookie

  Cuffed to my Roomies

  Complete box set here: One Lucky Girl

  Fake Marriage Collection:

  Pretend You’re Mine

  Pretend I’m Yours

  Let’s Pretend

  Faking It

  Complete box set here: Playing Pretend

  Other stories you may enjoy:

  Back To You

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  Natasha L. Black is an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. Dreaming and fantasizing ever since she was a young teenager, her love of writing flourished from a very early age. After working for 15 years as a veterinarian, she now follows her passion in writing for a living. She currently resides in a lovely country home in a rural area of Dallas, writing steamy novels to fulfill her readers' desires.

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