Billionaire’s Secret Baby
 

Chapter 1

“Are you all right, Ms. Kemp?”

Gina’s head whipped around and she fixed her eyes on the Skype image on her computer screen. “Yeah, sure. I’m fine. Why do you ask?”

“You seem a little distracted. That’s all. Have you heard a word I’ve said?”

“Of course I have. I’ll see you on Sunday.”

Giles Pendragon broke into a happy grin. His green eyes lit up, and his bright teeth showed between his lips. He looked exactly the way Gina remembered him. The same tinge of gray marked his temples, and the crow’s feet Gina loved so much twinkled around his eyes. “I can’t wait to see you! Five months is too long to wait.”

Gina smiled. “It’ll be good to see you, too.”

His image on the screen grabbed a pen and a piece of paper. “Tell me when your flight gets in. I’ll pick you up at the airport.”

“That’s all right,” Gina replied. “I’ll handle it. I’ll get a cab to my hotel or something like that. You don’t have to worry about me.”

“I mean it. You don’t want to take a smelly old cab. I’ll pick you up in the limo and take you back to the penthouse. You can stay there until you get your own place.”

“Naw. I’d rather just get a hotel room or something the first few days. Thanks for the offer, though.”

Giles frowned. “What are you talking about? Why would you go to the expense of staying in some rotten hotel when you could stay at the penthouse? You know it’s a lot nicer. You’ve been there enough times.”

“Yeah. I know it’s nice.”

“And riding into the city in the limo is a lot better than taking some cab. Come on. When’s your flight?”

Gina braced herself. She knew all along it would come to this. “I’m serious, Mr. Pendragon. I don’t want you picking me up from the airport.”

His jaw dropped. “Why in God’s name not? It makes no sense, and you haven’t given me one decent reason why. Just tell me why.”

Gina set her jaw. “Because I don’t want to. That should be reason enough for you. I don’t want you picking me up. I don’t want to ride to the city in the limo, and I don’t want to stay in the penthouse. Get that through your head.”

Giles could set his jaw just as hard and straight as she could. “Now you’re making me mad, Ms. Kemp, and you wouldn’t like me when I get mad. I’m not getting off this Skype call until you explain yourself. I’m your boss, and I’m ordering you to give me a detailed explanation of your activities while on my payroll.”

“And another thing,” Gina shot back. “Once I get back to San Francisco, I’m gonna want to work from home for a while. I can do the same research and submit the same reports. I don’t want to spend all of my time in the office.”

“That’s fine, Ms. Kemp. We’ll set you a schedule of office days. Let’s say three days a week at first, and you can work your way up from there.”

“No, that’s not good enough. I want to work from home all the time. I might come into the office for important client negotiations, but I want to spend all my working time at home. I can telecommute.”

He stared at her with his mouth open. “That’s not possible.”

“It’s going to be possible, or I won’t be coming back to San Francisco to work for you.” Gina clasped her hands in her lap. He couldn’t see them shaking. “I had an offer from Southern Mining Company. They want to headhunt me. If you give me any static about working from home, I won’t come back. I can make twice as much here in New Zealand as I can in the States.”

Black clouds roiled and fought for supremacy in his face. He glared at her in frustration. “I sent you to New Zealand because I trusted you-you, of all people, over all my other employees. You’ve done top-notch work there for five months. No one could fault you for that.”

“Then you should trust me on this, too. I’ll do top-notch work at home, and I’ll send it to you electronically the same way I’ve done the whole time I’ve been in New Zealand. You’ll see me once a month—or whenever you can’t manage without me—and life will go on as usual.”

He stared at her in blank incomprehension. “What in the world has gotten into you?”

She looked away from the screen again. “That’s the way it is, Mr. Pendragon. Take it or leave it.”

He compressed his lips. “Do you know how long I’ve waited to see you again? Do you know what these last five months have been like for me?”

She had to look at the screen again. She couldn’t stop herself. Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper. “Don’t do this.”

The words tumbled out of him in a rush. “You don’t know? I’ll tell you what these last five months have been like for me. They’ve been pure torture. I wanted to wine you and dine you when you got back. I wanted to take you back to the penthouse and pick up where we left off.”

“We can never pick up where we left off.”

His face spasmed in agony. “Do you know what you’re doing to me? You’re destroying the one hope I held onto all these months. I wanted to….well, you don’t care what I wanted. I guess this means you never want to see me again.”

“I never said that. I do want to see you again. It just has to be different now. We can’t go back to our old game of you nailing your secretary whenever you feel like it.”

“Is that what you think you are—my secretary?”

“Come on, Mr. Pendragon. You know what I mean.”

“Is there someone else? Did you meet some Kiwi stud down there? Is that why you’re dumping me?”

“I’m not dumping you. I just want to change a few things. What’s wrong with that?”

“You want to see me once a month. What good does that do me? What good does it do me if I can’t nail you whenever I feel like it?”

Gina bit back a smile. “Maybe it does you some good to have an employee you value. Maybe the work I do does you some good. Maybe you value something about me besides my ass.”

His twisted face softened. “Of course I value you. I value a lot more about you than just your ass—although that is….well, it’s magnificent. I wish I had my hands on it and my face jammed into it right now.”

Gina blushed. “Stop it, sir.”

A grin struggled to show at the corner of his mouth. “Say it again.”

“Stop it, sir.”

“Louder. Let me hear you moan.”

She leaned close to the screen so her lips pouted in the viewing window. She lowered her voice to a sing-song whimper. “Oh, stop it, sir. Oh, please stop. Oh, God, please.”

He growled into the screen. “Yeah, baby. God damn, you make me so damn hard. I’m gonna bend you over and smack your beautiful ass.”

She sobbed and contorted her mouth in the window. “Oh, please, Mr. Pendragon. You know I can’t stand it. I’ve been so bad and my ass needs a smack so bad.”

He rumbled low in his chest. “Are you a filthy little girl? Have you been sticking things in that horny little pussy of yours while your boss is away?”

“Oh, please, sir. I am so rotten. I know I need a spanking, but please don’t hurt me. I’ll be a good girl from now on. I swear it.”

“Bend over and let me see your ass, baby. Let me see you smack that ass of yours.”

She got out of her chair, turned around, and planted one hand on the seat. She hooked her other hand under her waistband and slid her yoga pants over her curvy hips. She looked over her shoulder to make sure her big round white ass showed in the window.

Giles panted for breath on the screen. His shoulder flexed when his arm moved up and down in front of him. He had his cock in his hand the way he usually did during these internet sex games. “Smack it, baby. Smack it like you know you want me to.”

She raised her hand and brought it down hard across her own ass. She yelped and jumped at the sudden sting. “Oh, please!”

“That’s it. Smack it one more time. Just once.”

She turned her face all the way around so he could see her scream. She lifted her hand and struck her own ass as hard as she could. The red mark showed up nice and clear on the screen. She screeched out loud and moaned in pleasure.

“Sit down on it, baby,” he grumbled. “Let me see your pretty little mouth again.”

She sat down and brought her mouth up to the camera. His arm moved faster. “Yeah, baby. I’m gonna get you on your knees.”

“Please, sir. Let me suck it.”

“Lick your lips.”

She ran her tongue around her lips.

He gritted his teeth. “That’s good. That’s so good.”

He pumped his arm harder and harder until a ragged groan escaped him. He finished himself off and collapsed back in his chair. “Do you see what you do to me? Don’t tell me I can only see you once a month. You’ll kill me doing that.”

She leaned back to her face filled the screen. “We’ll see. I will be working from home, though. That’s not negotiable.”

He sat up and fixed his eyes on her. “If I agree to this, you’ll have to give me some satisfactory explanation, Ms. Kemp. I have to understand it.”

“Call it personal reasons. That’s the best explanation I can give you.”

He frowned his post-ejaculatory frown, but he already relaxed a lot more. “Are you sure that’s all you can tell me?”

“I’m sure. Maybe someday you’ll understand why.”

He sniffed and ran his fingers through his hair. “All right. I guess I have no choice but to go along with this.”

“No, you don’t.”

“What will you do? Where will you set up shop?”

“I’ll rent an apartment in the city, the same way I did here. Everything will be the same as it has been the whole five months I’ve been in New Zealand, except now we’ll be in the same city.”

His jaw muscle tightened. “Are you sure you won’t let me pick you up from the airport?”

She smiled and started to relax, too. “I’m sure. I prefer it this way. I appreciate you wanting to wine me and dine me, but I have my own agenda for when I get back to town.”

“I can see that.”

She smiled at him. “So are we all clear?”

“No, we’re not all clear, but at least we have a way to move forward.”

“I’m looking forward to seeing you again, too.”

“When will I see you? If you’re working from home and I can’t pick you up from the airport, when will I see you again?”

Gina took a deep breath. “I’m not sure. We’ll just have to see how things work out when I get back to town.”

His frowned deepened. “I don’t like this. I just want you to know that. I don’t like this at all.”

“I know you don’t, and I’m sorry about that, but this is the way I have to do it. This is the way it has to be.”

He straightened up. “If this is what you have to do, then this is the way we’ll do it. You let me know what you need and when you plan to come into the office.”

She brightened up. “Thank you. I knew I could count on you.”

His hand moved closer to the computer. “I guess this is it then.”

“Yeah.”

“So…see you later.”

Gina put her finger on the mouse pad. “See ya.”

He clicked off first. She let out a shaky breath. So that part of this business was all taken care of. She turned away from the computer. Winnona still slept in her carry capsule. Gina picked up the capsule and gave it a soft rock. She studied the wrinkled little face inside. “Now comes the hard part.”