Blurb
Getting pregnant with my boss’s baby was never a part of the plan.
It all starts as a business transaction,
I get double the pay and he gets double the pleasure.
And then things change.
What was supposed to be his pleasure,
Slowly becomes all about me.
And man…don’t I need it!
I know this is wrong,
I know the infamous playboy is playing a game,
And I am planked in the middle of the board without a dice.
But I just don’t want to kiss him goodbye.
At least not yet…
He’s inked my name all over him,
And I am hiding this huge secret.
What if this secret of mine tears us apart!
Chapter One
Lexi
I narrow my eyes, trying to work out what’s missing. It’s something, for sure. I just need to put my finger on it. This is supposed to be a good thing, a really positive experience, yet, I just feel nothing.
“…I mean, who would’ve thought it?” Will tosses his head back and laughs loudly, a bellowing sound that comes deep from the pit of his stomach. “Me? The jock from high school, a high powered accountant? Not me, that’s for sure. I assumed that I’d always be on the football pitch with cheerleaders surrounding me.”
My nose screws up completely of its own accord. I can’t stop my expression from betraying how I feel inside, which just shows how out of practice I am at the whole dating thing. I can’t even remember the last time I went out on an actual date. Certainly not since I split up with Mark two years ago. His shitty treatment put me off men almost forever. I didn’t ever think I’d be sitting at a dinner table with a guy ever again. After eighteen months of being told that I’m fat and disgusting, I was shattered to the core.
But, I must be passed that now, because I’m here on a date with my high school crush. The super cool Will Mayer. The football player with dreamy green eyes and floppy blond hair to die for.
“Mind you, you have changed as well, Lexi Tyler. You used to be that nerdy quiet girl in the corner, didn’t you? Not this crazy tattooed girl that you are right now. I would have noticed you if you looked like this then.”
I jut my chin out, taking offence to this. “I have always been this person on the inside. You just didn’t take the time to notice.” Not that I can blame him. No one did back then. I was pretty much the same, by myself.
He laughs again, that annoying sound that makes me want to punch him right in his stupid face. I know that I was young and dumb, but how could I have ever liked this guy? Seriously? Was I blind and deaf as a teenager? Did I manage to completely ignore everything about his awful personality, or did that come with the suit? Now that Will is an accountant, he looks like he has a suit glued to his body. He probably wears one to bed.
“Well, I’m looking at you right now.” He bites his bottom lip and drags his eyes up and down my body, like he wants to sink those teeth into me somewhere. The idea makes me shudder. Not a chance in hell. “And I’m wondering where the snake coiling around your neck goes. Does it cover your whole body?”
This is pretty much the first question that he’s asked me about myself all evening. I started with all the things I thought I should speak to him about and he launched into a tirade about himself. But he never once asked about where my life is right now… and now he thinks that it’s okay to make suggestive comments. Not a chance in hell. I would storm out of here right now if I was in the mood for making a scene… but I like it here. I don’t want to end up booted out on my ass. It’ll be fine, I won’t have to suffer this nightmare for much longer, surely.
“And your hair… what made you go for the bright red color? Isn’t it brown naturally?”