Falling For My Playboy Boss
Chapter 37

Collins POV

I can't believe that I was going to stoop so low as to c**k block my own brother, and yet, I did it. I don't even feel bad about it. I need to slow his roll with Cora because I have never seen her happier. He gets her flowers, texts her, a date every Friday and I knew it was the third one, so I had to stop this one. I was waiting to drop the bomb of needing that report when the guys got here so she couldn't get it done earlier, as she had already gotten all her other work done and could have typed it up then. She was also right when she said that she could get it done on Monday and I would still have it two days earlier. I didn't need the report at all. I already had it done in my head what I needed to do. I just didn't want her going out with my brother tonight. I didn't want her sleeping with him as that is usually what the third date meant.

As much teasing as I had gotten from Nicolas and Dalton, I was ready to punch them both in the face. This has got to stop. I don't want Michael dating Cora anymore. I want to date Cora, and I am willing to admit it now. It is driving me crazy seeing my brother with her. I even stooped so low as to follow them from Michael's favorite restaurant on their first date and my steering wheel took a beating when I saw them on her porch. Michael is better at dating and wooing than I gave him credit for, as he has only dated two girls in his life, I figured he would struggle. I was wrong. I know that Cora would probably be better off with Michael, but I was absolutely jealous of them together. I want to be with her, and I will stop even my own brother to make that happen. I am not going to play with this. I need this to stop, and right now.

"Well, you couldn't have been more obvious, Collin", Dalton teased me after shutting the door to the office.

"I am sorry, well, I kind of am. But I have got to stop Michael from dating Cora. I want to date Cora, and it is killing me seeing them together", I told them, and then dragged both my hands through my hair.

"Holy s**t dude, are you serious? You are going to c**k block your own brother. He is your brother Collin. Is this just because you are jealous? Because if it is, you had time to ask her out, and I believe you quoted the handbook on no employee fraternization, before crapping on Cora for the hundredth time", Nicolas told me.

"It is not jealously, I have wanted to date Cora for a while, but she was never interested in me, she always acted nervous around me, and after the hell I put her through at first, I can completely understand it. I know I got a little fixated on wanting to date Shae, but I keep coming back to Cora. I have tried to protect her as best I can. I have installed cameras and audio, so she is protected in case Lyra tries to come back up here. I have banned Lyra from this floor and if anything needs to come from H.R. up here, Security has to be dispatched to bring it. I even went so far as to follow my brother when he took Cora home three weeks ago, like a crazy person. I almost tore my steering wheel off when I saw him kissing her on her porch. I can't take this, it is killing me and, yea, I know that he is my brother, but I want to date Cora, and I don't care who knows it. I know that he is coming here soon, and I will tell him when he gets here. I will fight him for her if I have to, as I know that he is going to be mad when he replaces out that I gave her work to do. He is pretty smart, and I have never asked her to stay late, ever before. He is going to know as soon as he gets here.

"What about your dream of going after Shae?" Nicolas asked me.

"Yes, you swore you were going to replace that beauty Shae, are you giving that up?" Dalton asks me.

"Yes, I am done. I only want Cora. Only Cora. I want her, I do not want Shea anymore. I am sick of the model types that I have been with, that are just usually mean girls and hateful to everyone they meet. I want Cora. I want to have children with Cora. I think I love Cora" I said and almost whispered the last of it.

Holy s**t, I love Cora. She has wormed her way into my heart, and I need her around me. I look up and see that Nicolas and Dalton are equally as stunned by what I said. Then they both smile at me and say that they will try to help me out. "I remember hearing a rumor from my sister Emily, who is Michael's age and was in college with him and his college girlfriend. I cannot remember her name, but she and Emily were friends, and Emily may still be friends with her", Dalton said. "How is that going to help me?" I asked him.

"The rumor was that the girl was pregnant, and that is why she left school. If she had Michael's baby, and from the rumors, I heard he really did love her, they might get back together if she did have his baby", Dalton tells me, and he continues typing on his phone. "OK, Emily is still friends with her, and her name was Sadie, Sadie Franklin. I am on her Facebook page now. Holy s**t, Collin, you have to be the luckiest bastard I know", Dalton tells us and turns his phone around to show us the picture he had blown up on his phone. I look at the picture and see a beautiful blonde, with grey eyes smiling back at me, with a little boy around 4 years old in her arms and they are both smiling and laughing at the camera. That little boy looks just like Michael, the jaw, the blue eyes, the dark brown hair. Holy s**t, my mom is going to freak out. We will need to get a paternity test done, but right now, I would swear on a stack of bibles that Michael was a father.

My door opens and Michael comes in, and he is angry, as predicted. Nicolas steps up between us as the voice of reason and asks Dalton to shut the door. As soon as it is shut, Nicolas leans against my desk and says, "Calm down Michael, we just found out something and I need you to listen to me". Michael sits down in a chair in front of my desk and looks at Collin and back at Nicolas, before nodding and motioning for Nicolas to continue.

"Michael, do you remember your college girlfriend, Sadie?" Nicolas asks.

"Yes, of course, I loved her. Why wouldn't I remember her?" Michael asks.

"Do you remember why she dropped out of college?" Nicolas asked Michael.

"No, it was like she fell off the face of the planet. I couldn't replace her, nobody knew where she was. After two years of looking, I finally gave up on searching for her. That was the reason that I haven't dated anyone since. Well, until Cora, that is", Michael tells us. "We are going to show you a picture, try to keep calm, we are going to get to the bottom of this with you, so just know that we are all in your corner, OK?" Nicolas tells him calmly and Michael nods but frowns at us before taking the phone from Dalton's hand. Michael makes a funny noise in his throat and stands up and starts pacing.

He stops and looks at all of us, and then says, "I'm a father?".

We all look back at him, and watch as he paces again, and then sits down like he can't walk anymore, and says again, "Holy s**t, I'm a father? Why didn't she tell me? Why did she hide her pregnancy from me? Why? I don't understand. I loved her, I wanted to be with her. We could have made what we had work. Why would she do this to me?" Michael leaned forward in his chair and tried to do some deep breathing, and I could tell he was in full panic mode.

"What am I going to tell Cora? I really like her, but I loved Sadie. If she still loves me and that is my son, I want to marry her. I never stopped loving her. Now I understand why she left, but if she would have just told me, we could have been together this whole time" Michael said.

"We will get a private detective on it right now Michael, and get a court-ordered paternity test done if she tries to block us. We will get this done, but we will come in playing nice first. When we locate her, we will see if she still loves you, and we can all just pray that she is still single", Nicolas says.

"Even if she isn't single, I still want to be in my son's life. I cannot believe that I am a father. I will figure out how to break it off with Cora. This is terrible as I really liked her. I hate doing this to her, she doesn't deserve this, we were really getting close", Michael said. He really is a better man than me. I need to step up and follow his lead from now on. He is a good man.

"Mom is going to come unglued when she replaces out," Michael said to us.

"Yea, mom is going to go crazy buying stuff for him, he will probably have a pony right after she replaces out," I tell Michael, and we both kind of laugh about it, but we both realize how serious this is. I am an uncle. I need to be more respectable. I need to be aware that from now on I will have a little set of eyes on me watching. I am going to be making some big changes.

I picked up the phone and made a call to an investigator friend of mine and gave him her name, Sadie Franklin, and get him to investigate her, and her son.

I sent him a screenshot of her Facebook and Instagram pages, and he has started right now. I look out at Cora, still typing up what I asked her, and now I feel bad for her. I could tell she really liked Michael. I mean he was a great boyfriend; he listened, he was funny, he was caring, he treated her right. I hope I did this for the right reason of wanting to date her, and I hope I can seriously let the thought of dating Shea go. I don't know if she is going to accept me as her consolation prize. I don't think that this is going to be the slam dunk that I thought it was going to be, now that I have leveled my brother and taken him out of contending. All that was going to happen now was Cora would be getting hurt, and that makes me sad.