Billionaire’s Secret Baby

7:28 PM Elliot Brand: A driver will arrive at nine to assist you with anything you would like to bring to the new apartment.

8:02 PM Elliot Brand: Ms. Johnson, I would like to confirm that you will be available at nine in the morning tomorrow.

8:47 PM Elliot Brand: Is something amiss? Have you decided not to take the job? Might I remind you, Ms. Johnson, that you signed paperwork this afternoon and are already a Brand Employee?

9:13 PM Elliot Brand: If I cannot reach you, I will come and speak to you face to face.

Elliot was fuming by the time he pulled into the rundown neighborhood that could only be described as the slums. Sirens wailed in the night air, far louder than any crickets had hoped to achieve.

The home looked to be held together with chicken wire and clapboard. Crumbling brick littered the front porch along with hundreds of cigarette butts.

Elliot knocked firmly on the door. There was a rustle behind the curtains and then the lights went off.

Did she think she could hide from him? He knocked louder, “We both know that you’re in there, Ms. Johnson.”

The door cracked open and the unmistakable sound of the gun being cocked ripped through his ears.

“Amanda?” Elliot’s hands tightened into fists. How dare she pull a gun on him?

The door opened a little further and he saw a woman in her fifties with a light between her yellowed teeth wearing a dirty housecoat.

“What you want with Mandy? You the fucker that put that baby there?”

Elliot could only stare.

The woman raised the gun to be level with his chest, “Better start talking fancy man.”

“What’s going on out there?” A man’s voice bellowed from somewhere inside. “Can’t a man get some sleep, damn it all to hell!”

“I’m her new employer,” Elliot stumbled over the words just as he heard a rustling behind the woman. He looked up and saw Mandy.

Her eyes were wide with disbelief, “Mr. Brand? What are you doing here?”

unlatched the door. But rather than showing him inside, she went out onto the porch.

The thin material left little to the imagination and

tried to look elsewhere. But the tiny shorts she’d on weren’t helping. Her legs seemed to go on forever and

so sorry for bothering you.”

side, causing her honey blonde curls to wrap around one

sorry, Mr. Brand. I apologize for my mother, she probably

filled Mandy’s cheeks. “What can I do for you?”

that she’d no control over. A wave of protectiveness washed through him. He couldn’t let

I will need your services right away,” he stumbled over the words. “I tried to

sister had an emergency at her shop, and I stayed late

Elliot nodded, “Can I convince you to come

and covered her breasts, noticing how see-through her pajamas were

course, I just need a few

come in?” Elliot surprised himself with the request. But he didn’t want to lose

man had

the boxes,” Elliot added with a smile.

right, Mr. Brand. But just

dark eyebrow, “I think I realized that the moment

mortified, “I truly am very sorry.”

a long finger

that you’ve had someone to protect

skirted away from his, “Yes, well, something like that.

the door and a wave of second-hand smoke hit them both. Mandy tried to ignore the way her mother was

that she led him too was clean

voice was gruff, “Where are the boxes that you can use?”

swallowed and walked out of the room and returned with three beat-up liquor

Please just have a seat on

looked huge sitting on the edge of her tiny twin bed.

of the drawers of

“I can put these items in