Five

Chase Denver glared at the woman smiling sheepishly before him. He patted the back of his head where she had bumped him on and groaned.

He hadn't just gotten a nanny but a stalker too!

“I want her out of this house!”

Leo stared at him like he was crazy.

“But sir, she's the best nanny we’ve gotten so far who doesn't know you,” he cried.

Chase hurried up the stairs and headed to his room. He didn't want to have this conversation before her, especially when his head was banging.

“My room, Leo!” he snapped.

Leo followed him closely and kept muttering how he had a good feeling about the girl who just whacked him over his head with a frying pan in his own house!

Finally, they got to his room and he slammed the door before turning to vent his anger on Leo.

“How dare you say nice things about her when she's a psycho sent to murder me?!”

Leo gave him a weird look. “I know you're upset but you've got to calm down.”

Chase glared at him. “You want me to calm down?! I had to hide in the office so I could sneak in peacefully tonight without encountering any stalker posing as my daughter's nanny but instead, I got whacked over.”

Leo could understand his frustration. His boss has always been stalked by a lot of women who claimed to be working as a nanny for his daughter so he hadn't exactly thought this new one would accuse him and not recognize him.

“But this is supposed to be good, right?”

Chase’s stare intensified and he knew if looks could kill, Leo would be six feet under.

“Good? I got whacked and you think it’s good?”

Leo shook his head. “She doesn't recognize you so that's a good thing. It means she's a real nanny and not a stalker.”

Chase massaged his temples. “Natalie is already stressing me out, I don't need additional stress.”

“She’s just meeting you for the first time besides she didn't know you would be sneaking into the house like a thief in the dead of the night,” Leo argued.

Chase nodded. “Okay. I would like to have a word with her.”

Leo gave him a pointed look.

He shrugged. “She's my child’s nanny. I have to get to know her.”

“Do not fire her, Chase,” Leo said.

Chase nodded. He decided to give her a chance since Leo was willing to speak on her behalf.

****

Hailey has never been so nervous as she was at this moment, well except for when she had lost her job but this was also a job-losing situation so she could panic!

But she kept her emotions in check as Leo gave her a comforting look while Dawn rolled her eyes.

“You are so getting fired!” she sniggered.

Hailey ignored her and knocked softly on the oak mahogany door. She heard a deep baritone voice asking her to come in.

The moment she entered the room she was transported. The room had been designed like it was an ocean!

The blue lights that made the design stand out more were even more amazing.

“Wow!” she exclaimed in a daze.

“Beautiful, right?”

She jumped at the sound of his voice. She saw him standing beside her, he was now dressed in a bathrobe!

She felt her ears turning pink as she tried not to look at him but that was impossible for her not to acknowledge his presence.

His emerald eyes were stormy and twinkling with mischief, his dark spiky hair was wet and tousled like he just slept in but still looked sexy.

She didn't blame the other nannies for swooning because she could swoon on him all night!

A sharp clearing of the throat made her realize she had been staring at a particular part of his anatomy for so long.

“My face is up here, Ms. Parker, and not below,” he stated in a firm voice.

Hailey felt her face heat up with embarrassment. How had she allowed her eyes to stray to his pants and now she was also caught.

“I’m sorry,” she finally squeaked out when she was able to look at him without wishing for the ground to swallow her.

Instead of being upset, he looked amused. “Wow, impressive.”

Hailey blinked and looked taken aback. “Excuse me?”

He shrugged. “I even bought it. That was some performance, huh?”

Hailey blinked again looking lost. “Performance?”

He nodded. “Drop the act now, darling. It's just us both.”

Hailey’s throat felt dry as she swallowed nervously.

Shit! They had found out that she hadn't come from the agency and now she’ll probably get fired or wind up in jail.

“Sir, it's not what you think,” she began, trying to spin up excuses in her head.

“You don’t have to explain. I understand but how did you know what you had to do?” he quizzed his eyes glinting mischievously.

“I er… I just did. I guess I'm a natural?” she knew it sounded more like a question than an answer.

“Yeah, that's what I’ll call you.”

“So, you aren't mad?” she asked.

He smiled. “Oh, I'm mad. I'm mad because I told Leo that there was no way you didn't know anything about us before taking the job!”

Hailey gasped at how quickly her story had changed from favorable to unfavorable.

“I don't understand you, Sir.“

“I was goading you,” he smirked, “You knew that if you managed to charm Leo during the interview the chances of you getting fired was slim.”

Hailey opened her mouth to speak but he held his hand up.

“So now you've succeeded in charming him and now you're here to seduce me.”

Hailey gave him a pointed look and noticed how serious he was when she burst into laughter.

“Please get over yourself! I am here to merely take care of your daughter and I don't know you. I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot but I didn't mean to whack you.”

He stared at her for a while, his face a mixture of emotions she couldn't understand.

“Fine. I'll do it.”

“Do what?” she asked.

A pair of soft lips landed on her lips and Hailey reacted in a worse way than when she had whacked him over his head.

She just reacted to being ravished by a drop-dead handsome boss and her reaction was definitely a surprise to him.

Just great, you can't seem to keep your hands to yourself, Hailey! Her inner voice chuckled as her boss glared at her.