Dazzle: The Billionaire's Secret Surrogate (Contemporary BWWM Romance) Read Online Free

her another fifteen minutes of walking to get halfway close to the street number listed, and she was already becoming exhausted by the effort. The houses along this road were more ornate, with huge yards and fancy drives leading up into them. Some of them took up entire city blocks just to themselves.
    “I didn’t even know there was a place like this in the Bronx,” she complained tiredly.
    A black town car stopped beside her on the road and the tinted window slowly rolled down, revealing a kind-looking man in his late sixties, wearing a navy blue suit and matching navy hat pressed to crisp perfection. The chauffeur leaned out the window and asked, “Do you require a ride somewhere, miss?”
    “Oh yes, thanks,” she said with a smile, relieved she wouldn’t have to keep walking through the warren of mansion-like houses on her towering high-heeled shoes. “Wait, you don’t have anybody back there, do you?”
    Kady tried to peek into the back seat, but couldn’t penetrate the dark, almost black, tinted glass of the window.
    “No, miss, not right now,” he smiled, and the way the corners of his eyes crinkled reminded her of her old neighbor Ben, whom she probably wouldn’t see again. “However, you may prefer to sit in front.”
    “Oh, sure,” she agreed. “I wouldn’t want to look too fancy for the place I’m heading anyway.”
    “Get in, then,” he said. “I’m Daryl, by the way.”
    “Hi, Daryl,” Kady replied. Once she was inside the car, she showed the address to him, and he raised one brow delicately.
                  “You are acquainted with Mr. Archer, then?” he asked, glancing at her figure and nodding.
                  “Uh, no, we’ve never met,” she explained. “I’m hoping he will hire me for—well, for a job he recently placed an ad for.”
                  “Pray tell, what sort of job does a playboy billionaire advertise for?” he asked, finding it difficult to hide his curiosity now.
                  “Oh, so this guy’s a playboy?” asked Kady nervously, and a billionaire , she said to herself. It was no big surprise though, when she thought of the high-handedness of the wording in the ad, and the fact that he didn’t seem to play by society’s normal rules. “I didn’t know that. You don’t think he’d—um—put up a false ad, just to trick a woman into coming out here, do you?”
                  “I doubt it,” he replied. “He can get women anytime he wants.  He wouldn’t need to trick them.”
                  “But why would a playboy be interested in starting a family anyway?” Kady muttered under her breath.
                  “What’s that?” he asked.
                  “Oh, nothing,” she said. “I’m just wondering whether or not I should turn around right now and forget the whole thing.”
                  “I’ll tell you what:  is this just an interview?” Daryl asked.
                  “Uh, yeah, I think so,” she replied.
                  “Then I’ll wait around for a while and see if you come back out,” he offered. “I’ve got to eat my lunch somewhere anyway, right?”
                  “Yeah, sure,” she agreed, touched by his kind offer, suddenly feeling a little less alone in the world. “Thanks.”
                  “It’s not a problem,” he said, grinning. Daryl’s expression turned serious, the merry twinkle in his eye fading to be replaced by concern and a warning “And also, you should be careful in there, miss. Archer’s really good at manipulating women, and you don’t seem like you’re the party-girl type. I’d take anything he has to say as questionable until you have a chance to check up on it.”
                  “So you don’t think he’s overly honest either?”
                  “The guy made his money selling penny