Total pages in book: 58
Estimated words: 54055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 270(@200wpm)___ 216(@250wpm)___ 180(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 54055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 270(@200wpm)___ 216(@250wpm)___ 180(@300wpm)
No one likes an entitled pr*ck who cuts people off in traffic with his flashy car.
Not even when he looks like sex on wheels with dreamy dark hair and piercing green eyes.
And especially not when he turns out to be the single father of my new charge.
Dante Rush is beautiful, grumpy and oh so annoying.
It’ll take all of my experience as a nanny to make it through this job without throttling the handsome jerk.
Then one moonlit kiss and I can barely remember my name, never mind my rules for staying professional.
One kiss turned into another and then another, and suddenly,
I’m in love with my boss.
Losing my heart to the grumpy billionaire is bad enough.
But I can’t afford to lose my job too.
A grumpy billionaire meets a sunshine nanny in this small town southern romance.
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Chapter 1
Lucy
“Thanks for driving today, Luce. My head hurts like a son of a bitch.” My friend and temporary roommate, Toni Stafford, gripped her head, and I could tell she was wincing even behind giant black and gold sunglasses.
I laughed and shook my head. “Drank a little too much last night?” Toni liked to have a good time when she wasn’t working, and for the past week we had both been between nanny jobs.
Toni nodded, her red ponytail bounced and she froze, clutching her head once again. “It was ill-advised I know, but the Hissy Fits were playing last night, and the last two times they were in Texas I was busy working,” she explained. “The only good thing about Ethan starting fifth grade is that I finally caught a live show.” She’d been taking care of Ethan since he was three, but now that he was ten years old, his mom had decided that he no longer needed a nanny.
“I have painkillers in my purse. Take two and chug that bottle of water you haven’t even opened yet. Serenity will flip if you show up looking hungover.” Serenity Majors was our boss at the Elite Nanny Service which catered to rich parents who didn’t have time for the day to day duties of parenthood. She was a good boss, but she had her limits.
Toni laughed. “I can be hungover as long as I don’t look it, and that’s why I made sure to look good today.” She ran a hand over her ponytail. “Except the hair, I couldn’t be bothered.”
“You look fine,” I assured her. Toni was curvy, borderline voluptuous, and she rocked it in her standard uniform of skintight jeans, plain t-shirt or tank top, and her leather jacket. She was a tough girl through and through and gave off a don’t fuck with me vibe that I admired. “Better than fine, and you know it.” Ours was an unlikely friendship, but when my last nanny job ended I had needed a place to stay, and Toni offered up her extra bedroom.
“Thanks babe, you’re the best.”
“I try,” I assured her with a smile as traffic slowed up ahead. “Is there another event in town or something?” Our small town of Lucky was on the outskirts of Houston, so the traffic wasn’t what you’d expect for a small town, but we were headed in the opposite direction of the city and traffic was still atrocious.
“Not that I know of. Probably road work, or maybe the cows or horses broke free from one of the nearby ranches.”
I let out a sigh and relaxed into my seat, because one thing I learned from my time in Texas was that the animals rushed for no one. No amount of honking or wishing would get a stubborn four legged creature to move if he or she didn’t want to be moved.
“All right, then. Did you meet anyone at the show last night?”
“Plenty,” she grunted. “Not one of them quality material. In fact I think I need to reconsider my love of the Hissy Fits if that’s the kind of men their music attracts.”
I laughed and shook my head. “Or maybe those guys want the kind of girls the Hissy Fits’ music attracts.”
Toni groaned. “That makes it worse, I think.”
I smiled and laughed as traffic crawled forward while Toni recounted her night of being hit on by Crypto Bros, Finance Bros and her least favorite of the bunch, thisclose to hitting it big wannabe musicians.
“But none of them were hot enough for a night or two?”
“That’s the worst part,” she scoffed. “So many of them were absolutely delicious, definitely worth a night between the sheets. But after a few minutes of one-sided conversation, I knew naked time would be just as one-sided.”
“Too bad.”
“What did you do last night?”
I shrugged. “I made egg rolls and fried rice, curled up on the sofa and watched…are you freaking kidding me!” A luxury red SUV crossed double lines to cut me off and then brake checked me. My abrupt stop caused the car behind me to rear end me. “Seriously!” I let out a long string of expletives that would have made my older brother and his Army buddies proud.
“Wow,” Toni sighed. “That was some impressive profanity, even coming from your sweet little mouth.” She laughed to herself and then stopped to clutch her head.
“This fucking guy,” I growled and a second later I was out of my little sedan and marching towards his bright red monstrosity. I knocked on the back window, keeping my distance but fully prepared to give this jerk a piece of my mind.
The man who stepped out was the most gorgeous creature I had ever seen in my whole damn life.
Thick black hair that was slightly more stylish than his uptight suit suggested, and deep green eyes that looked like marble swirl. And the suit, designer of course, fit him perfectly to highlight his best features including his broad shoulders, long, thick thighs and a chest that was just perfect to curl up against after a long day. Wait, what? I blinked out of my stupor when the man took a step forward and I took a wary step back.