CEO'S Secret Baby: A Standalone Surprise Pregnancy Romance - Iona Rose (which ebook reader .txt) 📗

something frivolous before we’d separated from the restaurant and I’d expected her to have noticed it by now. I’d slipped her phone out of her purse, and was hoping that she would have come up to ask me about it. More than an hour had passed since lunch, so she should have noticed its absence by now. Or did she perhaps think that she’d dropped it somewhere else, and was distraught?

I straightened, my chest tightening with worry. Perhaps I had gone too far?

It was only our first official day together and I was already stirring storms. My head fell into my hand.

“Carter. Are you okay, man?”

My head shot up then, at the reminder that I was not alone. “I apologize. I got distracted for a moment there. Please go on.”

“Alright, so our office is thinking about using social media to promote interesting areas of the state. For instance, the Eiteljorg Museum, the Fort Wayne Zoo, Prophetstown State Park, the Dunes National Lakeshore… places that people would like to show off in their pictures.”

“Hmm…” I nodded. “Doesn’t sound half bad. It could be marketed as uh… the most Instagram-able places in Indiana.”

“Instagram-able?”

“That’s the term. Or Insta-worthy, if you may.”

“What the hell does that mean?” he asked.

The distaste in his words made me laugh. “You’re losing your touch Huang.”

“Well, that’s why I’ve come to you. I’m so glad you’re here, man. How long will you be staying this time?”

My mind went again to the woman that I could now officially call mine. “Who knows?” I answered. “I’m just taking things one step at a time.”

A terrible step at a time it was beginning to seem. I looked at the clock once more.

Twenty minutes later, the meeting came to an end and I picked up my intercom phone to call my secretary, Joseph.

He immediately picked up. “Sir?”

“Has anyone else come looking for me?”

“No, Sir,” he replied.

I was just about to put the phone down when he stopped me.

“Just a moment, sir,” he said. “Miss Peters from marketing team two just arrived. She was here earlier, before lunch hoping to catch you on your way out.”

My heart’s pace picked up. “Send her in.” I couldn’t help but smile to myself as I awaited her entrance, neither could I help the perspiration that was beginning to gather on my hands. I couldn’t believe that lunch time had been barely two hours earlier. It was almost as though my life had done a complete one eighty since then.

There was a quiet knock, and then she pushed the door open.

My whole body came to attention as she shut it behind her, and then turned to me, a worried look on her face.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

Looking nervous, she stopped by the door. “Sorry to bother you but have you seen my phone? I’m thinking that perhaps I left it at the restaurant.”

“I have.” I nodded and pulled it out of my pocket. “It's right here.” I placed it on the table.

She cocked her head at me. “I left it on the table?”

I darted my eyes in thought, wondering if denying what I had done here would be the way to go.

“That can’t be. I remember slipping it into my purse.” She thought for a moment, and then noticed my tightened lips as I tried to control my smile. Her eyes widened with realization. “You took it out of my purse? How? And why?”

“I wanted you to come visit me.”

“Carter!” She scolded, and turned back to glance at the door at her loud tone. She abandoned all propriety then and began to march towards me.

I loved when she looked like this, and I wanted it to last so when she reached me, I held the phone far above my head and just out of her reach.

“Carter! I have a meeting!” Her legs went astride mine as she tried to grab the phone out of my hand as I leaned as far away as I could from her. She eventually caught my hand with an aggravated groan, and I released my grip on the phone.

Before she could leave however, my hand slid up her thighs, and grabbed her mound.

“Oh, God,” she gasped, her knees immediately buckling at the sudden intrusion. “Carter.”

Despite her resistance, my hand stroked the bud of her sex, her hands on my shoulders to keep her somewhat stable.

“Carter… stop,” she said.

Then I managed to slip her thong aside. I slipped a finger into her and then another.

Her eyes rolled into their sockets, her lips falling open. “Oh,” she whimpered. “Holy fuck.”

My phone suddenly began to ring. With a deep sigh of regret, I pulled my fingers out of her and banded an arm around her legs to hold her to me, before retrieving the phone from its handle.

“Your four ‘o clock is here, Mr. Edwards,” Joseph informed me.

“Give me a few minutes,” I responded, and returned it back to the receiver. I rose to my feet, and kissed my girl, completely and wholeheartedly in love with the woman that she was.

She hit me on the shoulder, but then melted into the kiss till a loud knock on the door brought us both back to earth.

“You’re going to pay for this,” she said, as she pulled away.

“I’m looking forward to it.”

“How did you even take it from me?” She asked as she walked away.

“I never went to college,” I answered back. “I spent the time finding other ways to survive.”

Her mouth dropped open just as she reached my door. “I want to hear all about that.”

“Tonight,” I demanded. “Cook me dinner at your place?”

Her slowly spreading smile almost gave me a heart attack.

She blew a shy kiss at me as she exited the office.

I took my seat to get ready for my next meeting.

Leah

Carter was so incredibly naughty, and I loved it. To the rest of the world he seemed so put together, and almost unapproachable, but when he was with me that aloofness was replaced by a light in his eyes that made me melt, because