The Billionaire's Baby

"So I've heard." Mr. Leon said and Roberta was not so sure that he was referring to the food. She decided to change the subject.

"Sir..."

"Call me Jeremy"

"Jeremy, I assure you that I will throw you a surprise wedding that no bride would be able to resist." Roberta blushed as she imagined how presumptuous her statement might sound to a man as wealthy as Mr. Leon.

"I assume then, that you haven't yet had the opportunity to go through the binder."

Roberta blushed a deeper shade of red.

"Not yet." she admitted. "But I will as soon as I go back to my room."

Jeremy took two steps closer to Roberta, then laid his hand on top of hers. Roberta froze. The warmth of his hand melted her frosty reaction and her skin slowly began to warm. She hadn't been as aware of another person's touch since earlier, when the blond had touched her collar bone with the tip of her finger. Her skin began to tingle as it remembered the sensation, and it began to tingle even further under the grasp of Jeremy's hand.

"There is no hurry" He told her. "In fact it probably wouldn't hurt if we got to know each other a little better. Would you like to play a little game Roberta?"

"Sure" Roberta agreed. She would do anything in order to have him let go of her hand. She would have a difficult time remaining professional as long as his skin was in contact with hers. She felt almost as if her skin had been waiting to be caressed by his touch. She imagined that his firm hard would have no difficulty exploring the hills and valleys of her skin. His hand would most likely be able to discover a part of her that others had missed.

"Finish your meal, and then meet me in the lounge for a nightcap." He left the room then said over his shoulder "It's five doors down on the left."

Roberta finished her meal. She felt better now that she had a full stomach. She was not yet tired. She knew that she should probably go back to her room and begin work. It was late but she could begin to compose emails to her vendors and organize a spreadsheet, detailing every aspect of the wedding plans. Most people were not aware of the amount of work that went into planning a wedding. Roberta took pride in ensuring that her brides and grooms were completely satisfied. As much experience as Roberta had, she had never yet planned a wedding with absolutely no input from the bride. She found herself imagining bluebells in the bride's bouquet. They would complement her eyes. The bluebells would be out of season and outlandishly expensive, but Mr. Leon, Jeremy could afford it. Roberta was getting ahead of herself. She didn't even know what type of flowers Jeremy wanted, or if he wanted flowers at all. Frankly, this had all been so out of the ordinary that nothing would surprise her. Before she started arranging the bouquet, Roberta would have to discover what the bride's name was.

Roberta walked into the lounge and saw Jeremy sitting in a leather chair, not unlike the one that she had sat in in Henderson's office earlier this evening. Before I fell completely into this rabbit hole, she thought. Jeremy gestured toward a dove gray linen chaise. As she walked over, she noticed that he had poured her a drink. It was a deep amber liquid in a cut crystal glass.

"Have you ever heard of two truths and a lie?" Jeremy asked her. Roberta did not think that she would have been more surprised if he has asked her if she wanted to play spin the bottle, or seven minutes in heaven, or any other game that she had played at her first boy and girl party in middle school.

"Of course" she answered. "We take turns telling each other three things about ourselves. Two are the truth and one is a lie. We then have to guess which the truth is and which the lie is."

"Exactly" Jeremy said. "Let's flip a coin to see who goes first. Call it in the air" He took a silver dollar out of the pocket of his night robe and spun it toward the ceiling.

"Heads" Roberta claimed as Jeremy caught the coin in his right hand and covered it with his left.

"Perfect, I always prefer tails" he said teasingly, and Roberta wasn't sure if it was the twinkle in his eye or the effect of the amber liquid, but she began to feel more comfortable than she had in a long time. Jeremy revealed the coin, it was heads.