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?”

Mandy scooted around her mother and unlatched the door. But rather than showing him inside, she went out onto the

had on a tank that had seen better days. The thin material left little to the imagination and he could make out her lovely nipples through the

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

breathed, “I’m so sorry for bothering you.”

honey blonde curls to wrap around one

Mr. Brand. I apologize for my

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

away from this beautiful woman that was apologizing for things that she’d no control over. A wave of protectiveness washed through him. He couldn’t let her stay here, not for another

need your services right away,” he stumbled over the words.

Mandy frowned, “My phone is dead, I’m sorry! My sister had an emergency at her shop, and I stayed late to help. I just

nodded, “Can I convince you to come tonight?”

covered her breasts, noticing

“Of course, I just need a few minutes to

come in?” Elliot surprised himself with the request. But

man had no idea how they really lived.

carry the boxes,” Elliot added with

was holding, “All right, Mr. Brand. But just a warning,

think I realized that the moment

Mandy was mortified, “I truly

and placed a long finger against her bow lips.

he whispered, “I’m glad that you’ve had

Mandy’s eyes skirted away from his, “Yes, well, something like

of second-hand smoke hit them both. Mandy tried to ignore the way her mother was yelling at the television. She showed Elliot to the

smelled of rot and was damp. However, the bedroom that she led him too was clean even if terribly

“Where are the

of the room and returned with three beat-up liquor

“I don’t have much. Please just have a seat on my bed.”

a chair to offer him. He looked huge sitting on the edge of her

As she opened one of the drawers of the dresser, Elliot

these items in a