How To Wife Your Nanny A Billionaire Single Dad Romantic Comedy- Melinda Minx Page 0,44
sarcasm was thickening like a thunderhead. “The first night we are here, barely after the ship has departed, you have closed one of the biggest and most important contracts. It’s just incredibly impressive what you are capable of. All on your own.”
He looked toward Lacey, and raised the sunglasses from his eyes to his hair for emphasis. “Lacey, do you have any idea just how talented your boss is? Oh, I wish I could have been there to see it. If you had been there, Lacey, well, you’d have been speechless seeing Noah woo the pants off of Chance Charter.”
“My Daddy is so so amazing!” Naomi said, and now she had figured out how to kick her feet and spin all the way around in a circle.
Silas looked at me now, and the moment his eyes met mine, I knew that he knew.
“Lacey was there,” I said, defeated.
“Of course,” he said. “She’s your fiancée. It would be strange if she hadn’t been there.”
“What’s a fiancée?” Naomi asked, still spinning around.
“It’s the French word for nanny,” I said, glaring at Silas.
Lacey smiled nervously at Silas.
“Well, what are we going to do about Cozy Catlady?” Silas asked.
“I’ll get her tonight,” I said.
Silas shook his head. “You’re engaged.”
“Cozy Catlady?” Lacey asked.
“She writes cozy mysteries,” Silas said. “There’s always a cat who helps to solve the mystery. Also, she is a crazy cat lady, if you couldn’t guess that much already.”
Lacey looked at both of us in turn. “Why does it matter if we’re,” she did big air quotes, “Engaged.”
“Because,” Silas said, “Cozy Catlady would want nothing more than to get cozy with Noah, if you catch my drift.”
Naomi was fortunately still very preoccupied with spinning around in circles. She’d also added “splashing a bunch of water” to the program too. Silas was very good at talking in ways that kept Naomi from knowing what he was talking about, so even if she did hear him, she didn’t know what he meant.
Lacey stifled a laugh. “How old is she?”
“Old,” Silas and I both said in unison.
“So,” Silas said, “I’m going to have to hope that she will settle for me. I’m still single, not tied down, no ring on my…”
He looked at each of our hands.
“We, uh,” I stammered. “Don’t believe in rings?”
Silas smacked his forehead. “You two are terrible at this. Absolutely terrible. It’s a good thing you’ve got such chemistry. That will have to carry you.”
I grinned like a big dumbass, and Silas raised an eyebrow. He looked from me to Lacey, who was smiling just as stupidly as I was.
“Ahh,” he said. “So you’re not really faking it, per se.”
I grabbed his ankle and yanked him into the water.
He made a big splash, and Naomi clapped and cheered as he spit water out and threw his hair back. I was sure that the bastard had spent at least twenty minutes getting his hair perfect this morning. It felt really good to fuck that up.
He smiled at me. “I guess I deserved that. Anyway, make sure you two keep it up for the rest of the cruise.”
“I’ll have no problem keeping it up,” I said, grinning.
Lacey splashed a bunch of water into my face.
I lept at her and grabbed her wrist. She giggled and laughed, and her free hand grabbed my dick through my swim trunks.
My eyes bulged, and I let go of her wrist. She swam away and kicked a big splash of water right into my face again.
“Careful,” Silas whispered to me as she swam away. “It feels like you’re playing with fire here.”
“Don’t let Naomi figure out,” I hissed at him. “She needs to just think Lacey is her nanny. Nothing more.”
“So this is just temporary?” Silas asked me.
“Of course it is. I know Chance signed the contract already, but I don’t need him thinking I’m a liar when we need to sign him again for his next book. Once we’re off the ship, I don’t need to keep it up.”
“So fuck her and forget her?” Silas asked, tilting his head toward Lacey. “That is cold. That’s something I’d do, Noah.”
“No,” I hissed. “I mean no more fake fiancée shit once we’re off the cruise. Not no more Lacey. This thing with us is...real. Just not the fiancée thing. That part is fake, but the thing is real. You get it?”
Silas scoffed at me. “I think you’re overthinking things. You should be straight with Naomi.”
Naomi was swimming after Lacey now. Lacey was letting her splash a bunch of water