Page 250 of In Love with a Cruel Billionaire

Even Mairi had to laugh. Thathadbeen funny, and even funnier was how it had taken them over twenty nannies before they found Jane. Thanks to a lie detector, they had known Jane’s heart hadn’t skipped asinglebeat even when Damen had walked half-naked in front of her.

Mairi’s and Jane’s eyes met, and they both laughed simultaneously. Wiping her eyes, Mairi gasped, “Oh God, when I remember the look Damen had given me.”

Jane had to clutch her stomach. She was laughing too hard. “I know.” She remembered that very clearly. She had already passed the test with flying colors when Mairi had suddenly come to her feet and shouted, ‘Wait.’

Everyone turned to Mairi. ‘What is it?’ Damen demanded, a concerned frown marring his handsome face.

Mairi shook her head. ‘I need to ask her one last question.’

In the act of getting up from her seat, Jane promptly sat down again at Mairi’s words. ‘No problem, Mrs. L.’

‘What else could you ask her?’ Damen asked.

‘I want to ask if she has a crush on you.’

‘We already asked that, ma’am,’ the polygraph expert reminded her.

‘I know, but we haven’t asked Ms. Jane with Damen half-naked.’

All eyes flew to her.

‘What the hell?’ Damen burst out.

‘Whoa.’ This, from Jane.

‘As you wish, ma’am.’ A deadpan tone from the polygraph expert. He glanced at Damen inquiringly. ‘Sir?’

‘Mairi,’ Damen growled.

‘Please,’ his wife begged. ‘I just need to make sure. It’s different when you don’t have a shirt on.’

‘MAIRI.’ Softer and more ominous now.

She gave him her best puppy look eyes, something her former student, Katya Vlahos, had taught her.

Damen cursed under his breath.

Jane laughed. ‘Go on, Mr. L. Feel free to seduce me.’

‘Shut up, kid,’ Damen muttered, but he was already reaching for the collar of his shirt. In one swift movement, he had pulled his shirt over his head, revealing the wide, muscled expanse of his deeply tanned chest.

Mairi sighed.

The sigh had his cock hardening.

Fuck.

He tried to control his reaction, but it was impossible.

Jane burst out laughing.

‘The subject’s heart has not skipped a beat, but she may be in danger of losing her breath due to too much respiratory and abdominal exertion.’ He paused. ‘In other words, your current state has her almost dying of laughter. Sir.’

‘Fuck off,’ Damen gritted out.

But this time, even Mairi was laughing.

Mairi and Jane looked at each other again. And just like that, they were laughing once more, and this time even little Nala joined in, clapping her hands in delight.

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