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 sort of

really,” I said, lowering my voice so that no one else could hear. “Edrick and I have

again. “A sleeping

sleep better than the pills and the alcohol, so he asked me to sign a

surprised. “Edrick has had sleeping problems since

but for some reason, it just works. He usually falls asleep

“How did you

to Ethan that I had already had a one night stand with his brother, so I

changing the subject and turning to walk

my eyes still wide. Ethan, noticing my absence by his side as he took the first step down, turned back to face me.

wind up being entirely my fault. I couldn’t be entirely sure that anyone, including Ethan or Ella, wouldn’t still take the Alpha CEO’s side of the

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,

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 the room to throw

and… om–” She paused, chewing on the syllables on her tongue,

with a

said, turning back to face me. “Will you eat

up at Verona, who cast me a warmly approving look, then looked back down at Ella. She still had whipped cream on the side of her mouth, so I wiped it away

silver dome that was covering my plate, but before I could, a servant scurried over and did it for me,

I said. “This looks

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