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.”

business, but it does sort of appear

“No, really,” I said, lowering my voice so that

again. “A sleeping

“An actual sleeping arrangement. For some reason, my presence helps him sleep better than the pills and the alcohol, so he asked

“Edrick has had sleeping problems since before Ella was

He usually falls asleep as soon as I do and wakes up as soon

brow. “How did

so I merely shrugged. “We both nodded off in the living room one night,”

on,” he said, changing the subject and turning to walk down the stairs. “Breakfast is

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

be caught, it would ultimately somehow wind up being entirely my fault. I couldn’t be entirely sure that anyone, including Ethan

I arrived downstairs, however, she wasn’t in

with a beautiful array of breakfast foods. Ella, who was sitting next to her grandmother, jumped up when she saw me and skittered across the room to throw her

Ella exclaimed as she clung to my legs. “Breakfast today is Bell-jam waffles and… om–” She paused, chewing on the syllables on her tongue,

a chuckle. “And it’s Belgian waffles.

back to face me. “Will

still had whipped cream on the side of her mouth, so I wiped it away with my thumb before it got smeared all over my silk pajamas

beside her. I went to lift the silver dome that was covering my plate, but before I could, a servant

you,” I said.

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