Chapter Two
“Women love flowers, Daddy. If you get her flowers, she’ll love you forever,” Grace said.
Leo laughed at his adorable little girl. He had asked for her help in getting her nanny to fall madly in love with him. Of course it helped that Grace loved Cassie so much.
“I will think about it.”
“You’ll do it, won’t you, Daddy? You’ll make sure she never leaves us. I love her so much. I want her to be my mommy.”
His heart squeezed at that. “I’m going to do my best.”
Kissing her head, he stayed for thirty minutes to read her a bedtime story, and an extra five, just to watch her sleep. His kid meant everything to him. His ex should consider herself lucky to still be breathing. No one hurt anything he cared about and got away with it.
Leaving the bedroom, he made sure a small night light was on, and headed downstairs. As usual, he found Cassie in the library, another romance book in her hand. Maybe he should take a few notes. Would she fall for some of the stuff people wrote about? Only women wrote romance, right? Surely it would have some snippets to help a guy out?
“Is she asleep?”
“Dead to the world.” He took a seat on the couch opposite her, and glanced at the title. It had a guy and a woman embracing. “Good book?”
Her cheeks heated. “Yes.”
“You know men can be just like those guys in there.”
She chuckled. “I doubt it. Daniel, he was nothing like any of these guys.”
“That’s because he’s a total asshole, and you don’t need to think about him again.”
“I don’t. I’m free.”
She didn’t even wear her ring anymore.
Resting his head on his hand, he stared at her. Leo knew he could watch her forever.
“You’re staring,” she said, closing the book.
“Am I making you uncomfortable again?”
“No. You’re not.” She chuckled. “I’m your nanny.”
“I know. You take such good care of Grace.”
“She’s a great kid. I adore her.”
“She adores you.” He liked making her smile. “You never had kids yourself?”
“I always wanted them. My ex … he didn’t want them.” She put the book down on the coffee table in front of her. “He wasn’t a very nice man to be honest.”
“I already knew he was an asshole. He let you get away.”
She bit her lip, sucking it in between her teeth. “You’re my boss. This is wrong, Leo.”
“Does it feel wrong?” he asked, getting to his feet, and sitting beside her.
Cassie didn’t move, so he cupped her cheek, stroking his thumb across that bottom lip.
“You’re my boss.”
“Are you going to keep on saying that?” he asked. “I’m not going to bite, or at least I’m not going to bite to make it hurt.”
“I’m not perfect.”
“Neither am I?”
“You can do so much better.”
He released a little growl. “Right now all I want to do is take you over my knee and spank your ass.” He cupped her face. “Don’t ever put yourself down like that. I don’t get it. I don’t like it, and you’re not to do it again. Even when you’re not in my presence. You got me?”
“It’s my body.”
“And it’s beautiful.” He couldn’t resist anymore, and he slammed his lips down on hers.
Moving his hand down to her waist, he pressed her back against the sofa. She relaxed beneath him, her hand going to his chest. The moment she touched him, he lost all other sense.
“That’s it, baby. Put your hands on me. I want your touch.” He plunged his tongue into her mouth, deepening the kiss. All he could think about was getting her naked, and fucking her so damn hard.
She was like a drug to his system, and he didn’t want to lose that.
Her body was so soft. He moved her so that he was lying between her spread thighs. The white dress she wore didn’t provide enough protection between the two of them.
Pulling away from the kiss, he stared into her eyes. She had no idea the power she held over him.
He wanted to possess every single part of her. “Do you want me to stop?”
She hesitated, and he saw the conflict in her eyes.
“Don’t use your head. What do you feel?”
“I want this,” she said.
“Then take it, Cassie. You want it, I want it. Just let yourself go, and let yourself feel. Be selfish for once in your life.” He knew what it was all about to be selfish, and right now, he was being exactly that. If you weren’t a little selfish, you didn’t get what you wanted out of life.
He was a successful businessman because he had taken what he needed to make a company that would rival all others.
Slowly, he eased the strap of her white dress down her shoulder, pulling it down, and she didn’t stop him. He paused when he wanted nothing more than to free that full tit to suck on.
“Tell me what you want, Cassie. Do you want me to stop?”
She bit her lip, and shook her head. “Please, don’t stop.”
He eased the strap of her bra down her arm, and the body of her dress slipped beneath her breast. Next, he took the lace of her white bra, exposing her large breast. Closing the distance, he took her nipple into his mouth, flicking the tip, and then sucking it in.
She arched up, moaning as she cried his name.
He loved to hear his name on her lips. It was driving him crazy. Pulling the next strap off her shoulder, he took her dress down, and cup of her bra so that her tits were exposed to him.
“You’re so beautiful,” he said, flicking each tip of her nipples, and kissing back up to her neck. She arched beneath him. He thrust between her thighs, wishing it was his cock deep inside her pussy. “You have no idea what you do to me.”
His cock pressed against the front of his pants, getting bigger with every passing second.
He wanted her so badly.
****
Was this so bad? Was it wrong for her to want the things that she did?
Cassie couldn’t remember the last time she had taken something and been just a little bit selfish. Over the years with Daniel there had been so much giving, and just not enough taking. He’d taken from her for years.
Leo, he was offering so much. The feel of his length between her thighs was driving her crazy with need. She wanted him so badly.
Take it, Cassie.
Fuck your boss.
Was it so wrong to be with Leo? He wanted her just like she wanted him.
“You’re thinking too much, Cassie. Feel. Feel what I can do to you.” He knelt up and removed his shirt. His skin flawless, tanned from soaking up the sun, no ink on him whatsoever. He shouldn’t be so sinfully good, but that was exactly what he was.
Perfect in every single way.
He took hold of her hand, and placed it against his stomach. “I want you to put your hands on me, Cassie. No holding back.”
She kept her hand on his stomach, and licked her lips.
Leo didn’t just allow her to touch. He slowly lifted the bottom of her dress, easing it up her thighs, exposing her lacy panties. She loved lingerie. It was one of her weaknesses.
He ran the tip of his finger against her panties, right down the slit.
She held her breath, watching him.
“You’re wet already.”
Being near him aroused her. She probably shouldn’t be admitting that, but it was the way he made her feel.
“Touch me, baby. Put your hands on me.”
She ran her fingers across his body, teasing his nipples, and then sliding down to his crotch.
The hard ridge of his cock was pressing against the front of his pants.
Leo took her hand and moved it to his pants. She touched him through his pants, and he seemed to pulse in her hand.
“That’s what you do to me. All I can think about is fucking you, Cassie. I want you so badly.”
She couldn’t believe that he wanted her.
From the moment she’d entered his home for an interview as his nanny, she had been struck by that spark of attraction. His hair was black with shades of grey. He was in his forties, and even though there were only ten years between them, he seemed to weave this magical spell between them.
She didn’t know or understand the power, only that he had it.
Give in, Cassie.
Stop fighting it.
“Why do you have to be so fat?”
“Look at you, Cassie, you’re a slob.”
“Can’t you go on a diet?”
“No one will ever want a fatty.”
He’s in the past.
Don’t let him win.
Be the stronger woman!
Sitting up, she wrapped her arm around Leo’s neck, and pressed her lips against his. Moving so that she was kneeling in front of him, she took the kiss that she had been wanting. He’d been the one to kiss her, and now it was her time.
“I want this,” she said. “I want my job as well.”
“This is not some fling with the boss for me to get my kicks out of a nanny fantasy. Your job is safe.”
He sank his fingers into her hair and pulled her close.
“I’ve only ever been with Daniel,” she said. “I may suck at this.”
“I don’t think that’s possible.”
“He always told me I did it wrong.”
“Feel what you do to me, Cassie. You know what you’re doing. He was an asshole that didn’t know how to handle a woman. He was a prick, and you don’t think about him anymore. Wipe your mind of all memory of him. He doesn’t deserve it.” Leo cupped her face, and tilted her head back. “Now, one day I will make love to you. Today is not that day. I need my dick so deep inside your cunt, and I want you coming all over it.”
How did he make everything sound so much better?
“Yes.”
“Good. Get naked.”
Her pussy pulsed with fresh arousal. She was so wet. She couldn’t recall ever being this wet before. Most of the time with Daniel she would think about something else. The worst was spelling out the shopping list in her head as he rutted away inside her. That was what her marriage had become. Sex for Daniel, and she could spell the shopping list. Before the divorce, she had been practicing to spell it backward.
Pushing thoughts of Daniel and their disaster of a relationship behind her, she focused on the man she really wanted, the man she had been dreaming about since the moment she met him.
“You want me, don’t you, babe?” he asked.
“Yes.”
He stepped off the sofa and grabbed the coffee table. She watched, frowning as he moved it out of the way. Then, he stood in the middle of the carpeted area and began to remove his pants.
“I gave you an instruction, Cassie. I don’t like telling people twice.”
The deadly sound in his voice sent tingles all down her body.
She stood in front of him and began to remove her clothing. It was a few items, and then she was naked for him to see all of her imperfections.
Wrapping her arms around herself, she stared at him. His body showed all the signs of a man who worked out, and she showed all the signs of a woman who didn’t.
“Come here,” he said, crooking his finger to her.
She had never been confident in her curves, even as a young kid. She was always the bigger kid, the one that got laughed and pointed at.
Stepping toward him, he took her arms and opened them out.
“You never cover up in my presence. I want to see you, Cassie. I want to see every single part of you.” He touched her hip, and ran his hand around to cup her ass. He tugged her closer so that his cock pressed against her stomach. “You feel that? You feel how hard I am?” She nodded. “That is what you do to me. Never doubt that.”
It was time for her to put all of her fear and doubt aside, and to explore what it was Leo offered.