Her Secret by Penelope Bloom

I’ll admit it. I messed up.
Mistake #1: Asking Peter Barnidge for a job.
Mistake #2: Accepting his offer instead of throwing it in his face like I planned.
Mistake #3: In the interest of stopping before #99, I’ll pretend the only other mistake was withholding one, tiny little nugget of truth during my interview.
Peter
From the moment she barged into my life and gave me her business card, I knew Violet Browning was going to be a pain in my ass. Unfortunately, I underestimated just how determined a pain in my ass she would be.I’m a multi-international bestselling author with an entire staff that works under me, so unsolicited job offers from people like Violet come in all the time. She claimed she could be of use in my marketing department, and when I laughed her off, she apparently took it as a challenge.I’ll spare the obnoxious details of how, but one week later, the woman was sitting in my office for an interview. I could’ve chewed her out like I wanted, but I had a better idea. I was going to give her an offer of the lifetime and then make her quit. After all, she seemed determined to waste my time, so now it was her turn.
Violet
Peter Barnidge… Where do I even start? How about with the fact that after my first day working for him, the phrase “Peter Barnidge” became my favorite kid-friendly cursing substitute. Stub a toe? Peter Barnidge it! Bank account is overdrawn? Son of a Barnidge!Hating him would be easy if he looked as repulsive as he acted. Unfortunately, he’s the most jaw-droppingly attractive man I’ve ever seen. He’s the bad kind of attractive, too. Dark with a side of smoldering heat. The kind of hot that makes you want to do that Catholic cross thing every time you look at him.Believe it or not, he actually told me during my interview that “I can’t legally refuse to hire you if you have kids, but you’ll never survive this job if you do.” In the moment, I think I lied to him more out of spite than to get the job.It felt like a white lie, but that was before my feelings for Peter started to get more complicated. Now it’s a full blown secret, and it’s only a matter of time before he discovers the truth.