Chapter 26: Confessions of a Nanny
Moana

“Good morning.”

I jumped, clasping my hand over my heart and taking in a sharp breath as I slipped out of Edrick’s room, only to be immediately met with a familiar voice.

Ethan’s smiling face stared back at me. From one look at him, I knew that he knew that something was going on.

“Uh– I-It’s not how it looks like,” I stammered, looking around frantically with my back against the bedroom door in the hopes that no one else was watching.

Ethan merely chuckled. “Are you really an au pair?” he asked. I could sense a hint of humor behind his voice and it helped me relax just a tiny bit, but I still feared that I had ruined Ethan’s impression of me. I liked him as a person and desperately did not want him to think that I was just after his brother for money or s*x.

“I am, I swear,” I replied, grabbing Ethan’s arm without thinking and pulling him away from the door in case Edrick was awake and listening. “I’m not a mistress, or anything like that.”

of my business, but it does

so that no one else could hear. “Edrick and I

again.

reason, my presence helps him sleep better than the pills and the alcohol, so he asked me

sounding a bit surprised. “Edrick has had sleeping problems

why, but for some reason, it just works. He usually

his brow. “How did you both come to

that I had already had a one night stand with his brother, so I merely shrugged. “We both nodded off in the living room

changing the subject and turning to walk down

firmly planted in my spot as he walked away, my eyes still wide. Ethan, noticing my absence by his side as he

fault. I couldn’t be entirely sure that anyone, including Ethan or

to wake Ella up and give her breakfast. When I arrived downstairs, however, she wasn’t in her room. I heard the sound of voices and silverware clattering, so I

more intimate than the massive banquet hall that we dined in the night before, with a quaint and round family-sized table in the center that was covered by a lace tablecloth and laden with a beautiful array of breakfast foods. Ella, who was sitting next to her grandmother, jumped up when she saw me and skittered across

paused, chewing on the syllables on her tongue, before giving up and turning to look at her grandmother for

said with a chuckle. “And it’s Belgian waffles.

face me. “Will you eat

on the side of her mouth, so I wiped it away with my thumb before it

to lift the silver dome that was

said. “This

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