Free The Gift: Book 1 (The Billionaire's Love Story) by Lily Zante

that children aren’t allowed in here. So you have to be very quiet. Okay? Do you remember Harry Potter’s Invisibility cloak?”
    “I don’t like Harry Potter. It’s too scary. I like Iron Man. You should know that, Mommy.”
    She let out a groan and didn’t see how being Iron Man would help. But she nodded, conscious that the doors would open any minute. “I don’t think Iron Man can become invisible, can he? He only shoots off into space and I don’t see how that—”
    “He can be invisible if he has the Stealth suit.”
    “Okay, then pretend you have one of those.” She rushed out of the elevators and pushed him into the safety of the office, relieved to have seen nobody on their way up. At this quiet time of year she knew the chances were slim that someone would see them. As long as that someone wasn’t Candace or Tobias, then she was fine.
    Once inside, Savannah looked around. She couldn’t very well ask Jacob to hide under the table for the whole day. Nor could she lock the office door. But she could block the entrance to it by putting a chair with some heavy files on it, in front of it.
    “We’re going to play a game, Jacob.”
    “A game?” Excitement spread all over his face.
    “If someone comes into this room, and you hear the door handle move, you have to take your things—your books, your toys, your coloring pens, and hide under that table?” She pointed to the table that was on the right of the door. It would give him some time to hide even if someone had managed to wedge the door open a little. “And you can’t come out again until I come and tell you. Do you understand?”
    “It doesn’t sound like much fun. What’s the prize?”
    “Prize?”
    “There has to be a reason to play the game, otherwise, why are we playing?”
    She let out an uneasy laugh. “Santa knows you’re helping Mommy, and he knows you’ve been a really good boy this year. And I think he’s going to get you something really amazing this year.”
    “You mean like the new Iron Man things in that shop?”
    She nodded.
    “Okay,” he said. “Now, it sounds like fun.”
    She settled down and powered up the computer, checked through the emails and saw that Jacob seemed to be keeping himself entertained. The phone rang again, she answered it quickly, eager to have something to do. She preferred being busy to doing nothing; at least it made the day fly by.
    “Ms. Page, please come and see me.” The sound of his voice made the hairs on her arms stand up.
    What did he want to see her about? He couldn’t have found out about Jacob already, could he? She looked around the room for CCTV cameras.
    “I’ll be right there.”
    She put the phone down and wondered what Tobias Stone wanted with her. She wished Briony was here. At least then she could have also found out about the Christmas party last night. She stared at Jacob and tried to muster a smile. “I have to go to a meeting, Jacob. You have to stay here and be quiet. Promise me?”
    “Are you going to see Tobias? Can I come too?”
    She didn’t like that her son was so informal about her boss. “It’s Mr. Stone, honey. And yes, I am going to see him, but no, you can’t come along.” Her son gave her one of his cutest and most endearing looks.
    “It’s not going to work, Jacob. ‘No’ means ‘no’. Stay put and be good, otherwise I’ll have to take you home.” She smoothed a hand through her hair and wished she’d shampooed it last night. It was limp and hung like wet spaghetti.
    Just get this over with.
    She knocked on his door and was surprised when Tobias opened the door himself instead of ordering her in as he usually did.
    “When were you going to tell me?” he asked, as she walked in, her mind running wild with fear.
    Tell him what?
    She triednot to look as nervous as she felt but there they were again, the butterflies dancing in the pit of her stomach. Feeling ever more anxious, especially with the way he hovered around her, she took the