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CHAPTER 1

Lexi

Everyone had their price It turned out that Lexi Wellington’s was ten thousand Ten thousand dollars for two days of babysitting wasn’t bad It worked out to a little over two hundred and eight dollars an hour Well over the thirty-two dollars an hour she was est jerk in Seattle

Curtis Jaible bachelor He was the head of a multi-billion-dollar corporation that rown up with the Jaenerations had because that’s how old the co with a hundred-dollar loan and his incredible ingenuity in his garage after his wife complained about her hand-held cakeat an incredible rate, ot to inherit the whole dang empire when his father retired

Just like most entitled, trust-fund brats, Curtis Ja with his life His friends called him Curt, but Lexi wasn’t one of his friends She used to call hi Douchebag, but then she finally realized what else it could stand for- and she certainly DID NOT know anything about hiht off She settled instead for TFB, Trust Fund Baby, only in her head of course It was apt, seeing as he rarely showed up at the office and on days that he did, it was to bark orders in s and shit all over everyone’s happiness and no- he didn’t shit rainbows and glitter More the real, gross, nasty kind of shit that no one ever wanted to smell, step in, deal with, or clean up

Most of the time she didn’t mind her job It was those rare moments, the ten percent of the time, when she actually had to deal with the TFB, that she would rather stick a fork in her eye repeatedly and viciously, than show up to work

How she let James talk her into her current predicaht He actually used the word please, probably for the first time in his spoiled, shallow existence, and sweetened the pot with ten thousand dollars- after taxes- if she illing to show up at his house at seven on a Friday night and stay until four on Sunday

And no None of Jaht be his executive assistant She ht have sandy blonde hair and be okay in the looks departht even wear the occasional pencil skirt and pair it with high heels because she liked to show up to work looking at least se to her boss’ house to gamble on her career She was there to do what The TFB viewed as the impossible: babysit his niece and nephew for the weekend

Unfortunately, Curtis James would be there as well Duh They were his sister’s kids and for some crazy reason- which he hadn’t fully explained when he called her into his officehide- he’d agreed to look after them for the weekend He’d debriefed her quick Given her his usual to the point, asshole list, rattled off like he was reading from some actual bullet pointed paper he’d committed to memory

Curtis hated kids He also made it clear he would never have kids of his own But he had a sister and apparently, she didn’t hate kids And unfortunately for hio and have her own kids And now, she and her husband wanted to go away for the weekend When Lexi asked why he’d agreed just like that to be the “sacrificial laed, pleaded and even produced actual tears until he agreed to look after her kids And that she didn’t trust a babysitter

He also emphasized to her several times over how much he actually loathed children Especially the four and two year old variety He was in deep shit (that was i to help him for the weekend?

And Lexi wasn’t like Curtis James at all She actually loved kids At twenty-seven, she wasn’t exactly ready for her own yet, but she was actually pretty okay with babysitting not that she had had much chance to do that for the past couple of years Her brother and sister, both younger, also weren’t ready for settling down and starting faetting into that coe and didn’t have kids either But she had done her fair share of babysitting when she was in high school, so she had some experience and was more than ready