His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 9: Bedmates
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As soon as I saw Edrick sleeping on the other side of my bed, I immediately averted my gaze down at myself to make sure that I was still dressed.

I was still fully clothed… And this time, I knew for a fact that I hadn’t h***ked up with him. I was completely sober when I went to bed, so I would’ve remembered.

So, why was Edrick in my bed?

While I was still processing what was going on, Edrick’s eyes suddenly opened and he stared right at me. I yelped and jumped out of the bed, running to the other side of the room.

“What are you doing in here?” I asked, my voice shaking.

Edrick slowly sat up and looked around, looking equally as confused as I was. “I have no idea,” he said, looking down at himself in the same manner I did; no doubt to also check to make sure he was fully clothed. “I was really drunk last night. I guess I confused your room with mine.”

growled. “And it’s an entirely different layout. You weren’t so drunk that you would have made such an obvious mistake

his long legs over the edge of the bed. “I’m sorry,” he said, standing and splaying out his hands with his palms facing outward in a display of surrender. “I really don’t know what happened. Last

and his

have me sign a contract stating I wouldn’t get romantically involved with him, only for him to violate those terms within the first week by crawling into my bed in the middle of the

after you went to bed. I couldn’t sleep…

you made with the contract and making me promise not to get romantically involved, you got sentimental over our one night stand and climbed into my bed while

vehemently. “No,” he said, his face turning slightly red. “It wasn’t like that. There’s just something about you that helps me sleep. I remember when we slept together in the hotel, I slept like a baby that

side, partially frustrated by Edrick’s back and forth attitude and partially intrigued by it. If he wanted to become involved with me so badly,

“Unless what?”

pay you to sleep with me. With clothes on,

against the contract that was so important to you?” I asked. “What, are you trying to make me break it so you can weasel a fine out

need to sleep, and you seem to be the cure for my insomnia. We can write up a supplemental agreement — in exchange for a salary increase, we’ll share a bed.

my eyes and thought back to the image in my mind of the drawer full of pills in the kitchen,

not to

only thinking about what’s best for my daughter.

feeling hesitant about agreeing to something like this, but a salary increase for simply sleeping next to someone was tempting. I could just see

a

…

day feeling distracted by my new agreement with Edrick. Ella didn’t seem to notice that my mind was wandering a bit as I helped her get ready for the day and attend her lessons, and if she did, she didn’t say

a bad idea? The last time Edrick and I slept together, it had turned into a one night stand and a subsequent argument. I couldn’t deny the feelings that arose in me when I woke up