Page 12 of The Billionaire and the Nanny

“Ohmigod!What happened?”

“He was here ten minutes ago. His men turned my apartment upside down looking for you, and Arjun… he… he threatened to hurt Rose if I didn’t tell him where you were.”

The air left my lungs in a whoosh at the thought of my vile brother hurting Celine’s ten-month-old baby. I’d kill the bastard if anything happened to my friend or her daughter.

“I’m so, so sorry, Celine! Is she okay? What did he do?”

“Rose is fine. She’s at my parents’ house because I was supposed to work tonight. And he didn’t hurt me. Just swaggered around yelling and threatening, and being his usual dickish self. He left after he realized that I had nothing to tell him, although I have a feeling he’s going to keep coming back to check if you’ve been in touch with me. I’m going to lie low for a bit and ask my parents to keep Rose with them. She’s safer at their place than here. But tell me, did you get away safely? I’m so glad you didn’t go through with it, honey.”

She might be glad, but I wasn’t! I got away safely, but my friend was paying the price for my escape.

“Celine, you’re not safe in your house. Arjun is a monster! I know what he’s capable of doing.”

“I’ll be fine, Tia. I warned him I was calling the cops if I ever saw him at my door again,” she insisted.

Celine was the bravest woman I knew, but this was something even she couldn’t handle on her own. My brother was devious and cruel. He would stick at nothing if his back was against the wall, and right now, his very existence was at stake because he had crossed Jeff Sabri. If he didn’t deliver me to Jeff, as promised, he’d lose more than just his company, and Arjun knew it, even if Celine didn’t.

“I don’t want to know where you are, Tia, so that I can truthfully claim that I know nothing. But are you okay? Do you need anything?”

I smiled at my wonderful friend who wanted to help me even when she and her baby were in grave danger all because of me.

“I’m good, thanks. But I’ll find a way to get Arjun off your back, I promise, sweetheart. Even if I have to go back home.”

“No! No way! You’re not going back to that hellhole ever, Tia. I mean it. If it gets too bad, we’ll just go on the lam together - you, me, and Rose. It’ll be like a traveling sisterhood of diapers. We can go to Vegas. I’ll make enough money to buy us a mansion and you can take care of the baby,” she said, with a weary smile.

I didn’t know if I wanted to laugh or cry. How had things gone so bad so fast? I ended the call with a promise to check on her in the morning and went back to pacing the length of the room.

There had to be something I could do. I decided to speak to Leo. Maybe he could help hide Celine and Rose until this blew over. He could put the three of us in the same safe house he had mentioned earlier. I couldn’t wait until morning, though. I had to speak to him right now.

I marched out of my room determinedly, but when it was time to knock on his door, I clutched at the lapels of my robe anxiously. Would he be willing to help me if he didn’t stand to gain anything from it? I didn’t know Leo well enough to know that. Although, he had helped me the first time we met. He hadn’t known me from Adam, but he had jumped at the chance to rescue me.

The memories of that fateful night three years ago flooded my mind, and my body reacted immediately. I groaned as I felt a gush of wetness at my crotch. I had to rein in my thoughts if I wanted Leo to help me. I patted my warm face, tightened the belt on my robe, and knocked hard.

There was no response, so I knocked again.

Was he asleep? Maybe he had his headphones on. I turned the doorknob on an impulse, and to my surprise, the door was unlocked. I pushed it open hesitantly and called out to Leo.

There was no response, so I poked my head around the door ventured in slowly, and to my surprise, the room was empty. I reared back in embarrassment because I hadn’t anticipated thathe wouldn’t be in his room. I turned to leave immediately, but before I could take another step, I heard my name.

I whirled around in surprise and saw that the door to the bathroom was ajar. Leo was in there.

“Leo?” I whispered, feeling strangely unnerved.

“Tia,” he called softly.

I cleared my throat and walked over to the bathroom hesitantly. I poked my head around the door, wondering why he was calling me to the bathroom. That’s when I realized how horribly wrong I was.

Leo stood under the shower in that massive bathroom. He stood sideways with one hand braced against the wall, and the other gripped firmly around his rock-hard cock. I stared in shock as he stroked himself, oblivious to the water coursing off his muscular back, oblivious to me standing there watching him. Oblivious to everything but the feel of his hand on his cock.

And when he moaned my name again, my pussy clenched in response and I gasped.

CHAPTER 7

LEO

Iheard a gasp. A wisp of a sound that penetrated the haze of lust that currently fogged my brain.

I turned my head and there she was. Standing in the doorway, as if I had conjured her out of my heated imagination.

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