Chapter 1

“I’m pregnant”

She said in the calmest voice she could muster with her blue eyes looking everywhere else but his.

Paul Costa’s grey eyes shot up to the woman before him, easing his back onto the chair in his huge office.

The Woman has been working for him for the past six years since he became the executive director of Costa Incorporation. There was something different about her this afternoon, perhaps it was the way she styled her hair or the Color of her eyes, He had never seen her without her glasses. That was probably why she seemed so different. Heck! It could even be the perfume she was wearing, it was jasmine. Paul couldn’t remember if her hair had always been this black or her eyes this blue. He wasn’t sure if any of those things were attributed to the difference he saw in her, But then, he had never paid any attention to her, all he knows was that she could do her job right, she was the ‘perfect assistant’ and that was why she still worked for him after 6 years.

Stephanie Hathaway had been working for Paul Costa since she left college. She was his assistant and in all her years of working for him, she had never seen him smile. He was stoic and huge and intimidating with his 6’5 height. She remembered that night when she saw another side of her boss. He wasn’t that intimidating scary handsome devil anymore,in his place was this charming, loving demigod who made love to her as if nothing else mattered.

“Surely you can work for a few more weeks until we find your replacement” It was a statement rather than a question. There was no bump which means she wasn’t far gone and would be able to work. So it was the pregnancy that made her different, Paul thought.

Stephanie swallowed hard,

“I’m pregnant with your baby sir”

Paul’s head shot up instantly, glaring at her. How dare she joke with him? Had she no regard for him anymore? for someone who seemed to be afraid of him all the time, this joke was too much

“Have you gone nuts?” He growled and his eyes darkened.

“I swear sir this is no joke. I am telling the truth”

Stephanie stuttered, refusing to look at him.

Of course, it would be difficult to recognize her that night. She looked different that night, she had replaced her usual nerdy glasses for contact lenses, dyed and styled her hair, and put on some makeup, it was a transformation! the personal assistant was gone, in her place was a goddess! She loved how she looked. Moreover, she was speaking with an accent which made it much more difficult to recognize her. He wouldn’t have spoken to her,much more making love to her if he knew it was his assistant. She only did that with him because she had fantasized about him for so long that when he made a move on her she didn’t do anything to stop him.

“We met at the hexagon on the 13th of July at approximately 11 pm, we then left for the troupe hotel where we did it” She explained quickly.

Paul glared at her with anger,his eyebrows furrowed as his eyes darkened. This joke was becoming too much,he thought.

He had been at Hexagon club that day where he met a woman with too much makeup and red hair. He remembered her clearly because of her accent and her hair, it was fiery red. They never exchanged names or personal information but he knew he could recognize that woman anywhere and she was not his assistant. That woman was a tigress in bed.

“We bumped into each other at the entrance of the club, I finished dancing and went to the bathroom when I bumped into you again on my way out,you laughed and said you wanted to buy me a drink. We went back to the bar, I had tequila and you had vodka. I was wearing a short red sleeveless dress and I dyed my hair red……i spoke with an accent” she narrated,still avoiding his eyes.

Paul frowned and his forehead wrinkled as realization dawned on him.

“It was you?!” He yelled. “How!!!??”

Stephanie nodded silently.

He looked closely at her, her eyes! The same blue eyes he had been enchanted by that night. The eyes he had looked at as he made sweet love to her.

“How dare you!!” He growled as anger pulsed through his veins.

Stephanie shuddered, about to cry.

“How do I even know that you aren’t telling a lie right now?”

He exclaimed and even as he questioned her , he knew without a doubt that she was the woman he met that night.

Paul chuckled throatily,

“How can I be so sure that I am responsible for that pregnancy which you so claim to have?”.

He imagined his face plastered on every tabloid and newspaper with the caption

“Paul Costa, Multimillionaire and executive director of Costa incorporations impregnates personal Assistant” and other ridiculous headlines that would be printed.

Stephanie whimpered. She looked like she was about to cry.

“You are the only one I have slept with in years And we didn’t use protection!!” She exclaimed.

Paul studied her face. She was telling the truth, He knew that. Stephanie had never told a lie, so what would she gain by doing that now and why on earth did he have to sleep with her of all persons? And why did she have to be pregnant?!!. He was rich and successful and any greedy woman would jump at an opportunity to entrap him.

For all he knew she might have slept with other men, gotten pregnant for one of them but because he was the most eligible bachelor she would pin the pregnancy on him to get money out of him. But then, he had known Stephanie for 6 years, she wasn’t greedy. Heck! He wasn’t sure he knew her anymore because it seemed like she had two personalities.

This plain looking woman in front of him with her shabby and awful looking dress was different from the beautiful damsel he met that night.

Although,today she looked a little different, a bit prettier perhaps,it was probably because she wasn’t putting on glasses.

He was wise, he would not let this mistake ruin him, he could not allow it! Money was all that was needed and he had a whole lot of it. He was, after all, Paul Costa!.

Stephanie still had her head bent, unable to look at Paul in the eye. She was still standing and it didn’t bother her as she was used to standing whenever she brought files for him. She wondered what he was thinking, perhaps he was thinking about that night.

The night she decided she needed a break. After working with Paul on an important project for almost a month, she had overworked herself and had no time to rest properly that when Paul gave her the day off, she decided she was going to have fun.

She went to an art gallery and a museum in the morning, and in the afternoon she went to a bookstore where she had been planning to go for a while. She was about to watch a movie that night when her best friend called her boring and made her dress up to go to the club.

“You deserve to have fun” Her friend had said and a fun night it was going to be,she thought.

####FLASHBACK###

“I deserve a fun night”

She smiled and wrinkled her nose as the smell of sweat and liquor filled her nostrils. The crowd was dancing to the upbeat music that threatened to rupture her eardrums. She was thinking about the headache she was going to get the following morning that she didn't focus and bumped into a hard wall.

“Shit”, she muttered and was about to apologize when she paused. The man in front of her towered like a giant, His grey eyes was firm as they pierced through her soul, his hair was jet black and slicked back with a gel, and his jawline was sharp!!, He was like a Greek god.

“I'm sorry,” she said in a hurry and ran inside the club.

“I want to get out of here” she yelled over the loud music for her friend Ciara to hear. She wanted to leave so badly after seeing that very hot man who was HER BOSS!!! and who didn’t seem to recognize her.

“Not happening!!” Ciara yelled back and dragged her inside the crowd.

She has made a mistake, she thought as someone smacked her ass making her whimper in disgust. She was supposed to enjoy this, but all she felt was disgust and irritation as she got lewd comments from some men. It probably was because of the tight dress she wore.

She hurried to the bathroom where she got even worse lewd remarks from the men she passed, one even tried to squeeze her butt and she gasped in disbelief and hurried inside.

In the bathroom, she stared at herself in the mirror, of course she looked stunning but the dress was way too short!!!,it only covered her bum and that was it! And the heels? it was almost six inches, she looked like a prostitute! How the hell was she manipulated into wearing something so provocative!! Gosh! And Ciara was already lost to the crowd!

As she stepped outside the bathroom, she bumped into a large figure, and her breath was almost knocked out of her. It was her boss, again!!! Before she could quickly utter an apology, she heard him saying with his thick deep voice

“May I get you a drink?”

she was still trying to take it in…Her boss!, her extremely hot and sexy boss, The very pompous multi-billionaire!!, The fearsome Paul Costa!! Just asked if he could buy her a drink!!!.

“Please..” He said again and she realized she had kept him waiting to get a reply. She tried hard to stop herself from screaming and instead in a calm voice said “Sure..of course” but it came out like a whimper instead.

“Are you okay?” He asked, genuinely concerned and she nodded vigorously before he would change his mind about the drink.

“Yeah.. it's just parties aren’t my thing”.

“Me either,” he said and continued “all the more reason for us to grab a drink”.

He led the way and like a gentleman, pulled out a chair for her. “Thank you,” she said as she sat down.

They had vodka and chatted about everything, but themselves. They didn’t reveal their names or any personal information. He laughed at her reaction every time she took a shot of her drink.

Suddenly she felt his warm breath against her ear, blowing her soft skin and causing chills to run down her spine

“Should we get out of here?”, He asked,his voice raspy.

Stephanie blinked! Her boss wants her to leave the club with him!!, she of course knew what it meant, it was something she had always fantasized about,being in bed with her boss. She had always wondered how it would be like.

Now her dreams were about to come to pass!!,she need not wonder much again.

The day has so far been good, the night especially, she had seen another side of her boss she had never seen before, and now,it was about to be the best night ever. She smiled and even though a part of her strongly adviced against the idea,she nodded with a smile.

“Sure”

She was going to make tonight a memorable one, even better than her fantasies. It has been years since she last had sex,so why not make a good comeback sex!!.

All through the 10-minutes drive to the hotel, all Stephanie could think of was the fact that she was going to finally have sex with her boss. It took all the strength in her not to start screaming out loud. The journey to the hotel room was a blur as she was still taking in the fact that she was going to be screwing her boss in a few minutes.

Within a couple of minutes, their clothes were discarded, She remembered her body being placed on a large soft bed and hot gentle kisses trailing down from her forehead down her body. She closed her eyes to revell in the feeling. He asked if she was ready as he positioned himself at her entrance. He kissed her neck and used his tongue to proceed to lick her earlobe. She grabbed him tightly and urged him on. The kisses intensified as their bodies merged.

“Is twenty million dollars enough?” Paul shot out firmly, cutting short her trip down memory lane.