The Billionaire CEO

DANIELLE

“What are you talking about, sis? How in the world are you getting married? You went for a job interview,” she asks in astonishment.

“So you didn’t explain the details of the job to your sister?” he asks while looking at me, shocked.

“No, because I didn’t think I would get it. After what you said, I was positive that I wasn’t even in the running,” I answered, crossing my arms while talking in a hushed tone.

“Get your things together, and we’ll discuss all the details on the way to our house.

“I’ll answer any questions you or your sister may have,” he says hurriedly, trying to rush us out of the house immediately before he gets any dirt on him.

I look at him and stand there stone-still. It feels like I can’t move. My feet feel like they weigh a thousand pounds.

“Cory, go get their belongings and load them up. We need to be back at the house in an hour,” he says as he turns around to his brother, who just walked in the door.

“No! I’ll get my items,” Bailey squeaks as she rushes to her room.

I sigh, dropping my arms and turning to my room.

I gather my clothes, throwing them in an old bag from my closet because we don’t have a suitcase and not a ton of clothes either. Maybe about twenty outfits in all.

Most are from the thrift stores where we shop on Sundays since they have all their clothes marked down to fifty cents. I hear a low voice coming from the front of the house.

“Her sister is a beautiful woman, man,” I hear Cory’s voice flow down the hall and into my room.

“Yeah, you would be looking, wouldn’t you?” I hear Danny snarl back.

“I have eyes just like you. They’re both gorgeous,” he says in a lower voice.

“You know the arrangement, man. Don’t get attached,” Danny says gruffly.

“That’s your motto, not mine. I’m free to find true love, then marry for it. I don’t have to buy a woman to have children for me.

“I can find one on my own and have a good life with a beautiful woman,” he says in a very firm voice.

“I don’t want the emotional attachment of a woman. I want an heir to take over the company one day.

“Raise it as my own the way I want to, without a woman interfering with me and my ways,” Danny says flatly.

“You’re doing it the wrong way, man. Having a strong woman by your side, helping out with everything, is how a true relationship is going to work. You do it your way; I’ll do it mine,” Cory chimes back.

“Thank you,” Danny says cheerfully.

“I’m just saying that you were very impressed with her after your meeting. You said no one else was like her, plus the way she stood up to all of us massively impressed you,” Cory says softly.

“So? She was the only virgin we interviewed. That was one of the main things I was looking for,” Danny says in a very mean tone.

“What does that matter? Why does your wife have to be that?” Cory asks.

“I’m not having a child with a woman that’s been with God knows how many men. I want my child born of a pure woman who’s had sex with me and me only,” Danny fires off.

“If you’re going to have sexual relations with this woman, how do you know you won’t fall for her?” Cory asks.

“I can cut those emotions off. I don’t fall in love, and you know that,” he says.

“I don’t believe that. We’ll see, then,” Cory says in a joking tone.

We walk back into the room with our old bags, then follow the men out to the waiting limo.

“Put them in the trunk, then let’s get going,” Danny says, pointing to the open trunk.

We nod, placing the bags into the trunk. The driver closes the trunk lid as we climb inside the luxurious car.

“Wow! This is nice; I like this a lot,” Bailey says as she slowly slides into the car that looks like it was just bought this morning.

Cory slides in beside her, watching her face, and she blushes hard. He smiles at her as I take the back seat beside Danny.

“So, what questions do you have?” he asks as he looks at us.

“What were you talking about when you said you’re getting married?” Bailey asks.

“Um…” I pause so I can decide how I can put this to an eighteen-year-old.

“Your sister and I have a business arrangement that requires us to be married,” he says, looking at her.

“So you have to be married to hire her for your company?” she asks with a shocked look on her face.

I cough and blush bright red. I shake my head, but he continues anyway.

“Our business is that your sister gives me an heir. In exchange, we get you the best treatment for your illness,” he says as his eyes glint in the faint light inside the car.

“Wait. So she has to become your wife and have your baby?” Her head snaps in my direction.

“Yes, you get the treatment needed to get rid of your illness from some of the best doctors and medicine that money can buy,” he says, smiling at her.

“You can say the name, you know. Cancer doesn’t bother me. I’m in the early stages, but I’ve known about it long enough so it doesn’t bother me anymore,” she says as she crosses her arms over her chest.

“Okay. I see you’re courageous about this. I’m glad that the word doesn’t bother you so we can say it openly,” Danny says.

“I know what I have. I’ve read up on the problems that it causes, even that I can eventually die from it,” she says in a regular tone.

Cory chimes in, saying, “We have an appointment for you tomorrow with the best doctor in LA. We’re going to get you in to get your treatments started immediately.”

She looks down at the floor of the car and says, “Oh, thank you so much. You don’t know what this means to me.”

“You’re welcome, beautiful. We would do anything to save that pretty face of yours,” he says as he lifts her chin with his finger.

She blushes hard again, then he smiles big.

Danny turns to look at me. “We’ll be married in three days, then you’ll have one year to produce me an heir. I have a contract written up for you to sign when we arrive at the house.

“After that, we’ll move forward with our agreement.”

Bailey snaps her head toward me, glaring at me with those eyes of hers. “We’re going to talk when we get to this house, sis. You never told me you were going to do this for my treatments.”

Danny chimes in, “Along with a very nice payment at the end of the contract.”

He leans forward, looking at Bailey with his elbows on his knees. “You’ll also be very rich. It comes with a massive paycheck at the end of all this,” he says, smirking.

She looks at him with wide eyes, asking, “How much are we talking about?”

“Ten million dollars. One year of marriage, maybe two. Giving me one baby, then a big, fat paycheck for both of you,” he says, pointing back and forth between us.

She furrows her brows, looking at me while she asks, “So my sister is selling you her body for treatments and a pile of money?”

“If you want to look at it that way, but you don’t have to. I see it as an opportunity to get what I want along with your sister getting what she wants.

“I get a child; she gets a sister who is healthy, cured of her cancer, along with a very lavish lifestyle.” Danny shrugs like it’s no big deal.

“I guess if she’s okay with it, then I can be too. How come a year or two only?” she asks.

He answers in a light tone, “I just need a child. I don’t want a wife to grow old with.

“My lifestyle is too complex to include a wife for a long time. I just need one to have my child. Then, she’s a free woman.”

I jump in before anyone else can say anything. “I think I can handle that. One year with you or maybe two, max, then I’m free. No problem, I guess.”

We round a corner and go down a very long driveway. Seeing how very upscale the houses were as we passed, I know we’re in a wealthy neighborhood.

We enter through two substantial iron gates with a guard shack on each side.

Bailey’s eyes go wide as she looks out the window. “Oh my gosh! This place is massive.”

I look out the window in shock also. “It is a very nice house.”

Danny looks at both of us and smiles.

“It’s one of many I own. This one is just here in the heart of LA, where my business is. I have houses all over the world. We all live here in this one, so it’s easier for all of us.”

We pull up to a vast beige mansion that seems to stretch for miles. From the car, I can’t see the end of the house in either direction.

Danny holds out his hand for me. “Come, I’ll give you a tour.”

We get out and head to the front of the house. The doors open, revealing a beautiful grand staircase in the middle of a white tile floor with gold accents.

We go to the right of the stairs into a vast dining area, decorated in gold. Neatly pushed under the table are twelve gold chairs with red-velvet covers.

We leave and walk through a massive archway into a huge kitchen.

Danny looks at me and says, “This is where our cooks prepare every meal for us. You will have breakfast, lunch, and dinner prepared.”

We leave the massive kitchen and go down a long hallway, coming to a neat area with a wrap-around black leather couch across from a door.

Cory chimes in, “Our offices are behind this door. We each have one down the hall there.

“Dad’s is the first one you come to on the right. Mine is the first left. Steven’s is the next right, and Danny’s is at the end of the hall on the left.

“This area is used by people who come here to talk to us,” he explains, showing us where people sit or have drinks if they want.

We walk down another hall, and they open the door to what looks like a small cinema. I look at it and gasp.

It has full-size red-velvet chairs, two on each side, with four rows of chairs. Also in the front is one of the biggest TVs I have ever seen in my life.

The guys chuckle as they guide us out of the room and then down to a huge sitting area.

“You may sit there to read books if you like. The library is right through that big brown door there,” Cory says, smiling.

We walk some more; they open another door. We step into a giant game room. It has a pool table, a Ping-Pong table, a Foosball table, all kinds of arcade games, and even a two-lane bowling alley.

I smile as I look around. I love to play some of these when we have a little money to spare.

The guys smile at us, then lead us to the next area, where we step outside onto a vast porch overlooking the backyard.

I look across the area, seeing the house wrapped around a massive courtyard with a gigantic in-ground pool. There is an upper level that has a small waterfall that cascades into the lower section.

Cory points across the courtyard. “We have an outdoor eating or entertaining area over there, under that open area of the house.”

We are guided back into the house, then up another set of stairs. The house has at least three floors, if not more. We walk down a hallway and stop in front of a large, gold-looking door.

“This is my room,” Cory says as he pushes the door open. We walk into a vast room decorated in gold tones with an expansive dark-brown four-poster bed near the windows on the other side of the room.

He has a gold comforter on his bed, a fireplace, at least three dressers, and a massive walk-in closet that holds all his suits along with some nicer clothing.

We walk into his bathroom, and it’s also enormous.

It has a huge glass shower in the middle that he says is a massage shower, a charming tub lined with gold tiles, and a two-sink vanity that seems to stretch forever.

Next, we walk into Danny’s room, which is just as big as Cory’s. It’s color scheme, too, is gold. He has a massive king-size bed with a black comforter with a gold diamond pattern.

There’s a sitting area near a huge bay window adorned with very plush red chairs.

His bathroom is also huge, with a glass shower over to the side, along with a huge tub that looks like a spa tub. Gold and black accents are on the floor and on the tiles around the tub and the walls.

We are then taken to Steven’s bedroom. It’s also a massive room in gold but it’s accented with a dark-blue comforter. His bathroom is just as big as the others but has dark-blue accents.

We’re shown a small breakfast area off to the right that we can use, and we round the corner to be shown where our rooms will be.

“This one is Bailey’s,” Cory says as he pushes the door open. “I hope you like it.”

Her room has a huge round bed in the middle of the room with adorable pink accents. Her bathroom is done in the same gold as the others, just with pink in it.

She jumps up and down, squealing as she looks at the massive size of it all.

“I take it you like it, then, huh?” Cory asks.

She nods her head as her eyes dance with excitement.

“Yours is right next to mine, beautiful. So, if you need me, please come knock on my door,” he says in a smooth tone.

Danny looks at me, then says, “Now I’ll show you the one that will be yours until we get married.”

He takes me up some stairs, then down another hall. He opens the door to my room. I gasp as I walk in.

It has very high ceilings with a massive cutout in the middle. There’s a huge chandelier hanging over a bed accented in purple.

We walk into the bathroom. It also has a huge glass shower to my left, a Jacuzzi tub right past it, and a massive vanity with two sinks in it.

“This is beautiful. I love it,” I say as I run my hands along the tiles on the countertop.

“Get settled in; I’ll be back shortly so we can go over the contract,” he says as I follow him back out into the massive room.

When he leaves, I pick up my bag from the floor in the bedroom, then walk into the enormous, empty closet, where I put my clothes in the drawers and hang up my dresses.

I undress and take a shower, washing off all the events from today. It’s been a long time since I had a very nice, hot shower.

I slip into some cute, comfortable clothes, and plop my body down on the sofa to watch a little TV until he comes back.

After about thirty minutes, Danny knocks on the door, so I open it. He looks at my clothes, then sighs. He offers me his arm, and I take it slowly.

“I know you have many questions; I’ll answer all of them very shortly,” he says as we walk down the long staircase.

“But first, I have something to show you.”