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.”

any of my business, but it does sort of

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

again. “A sleeping

arrangement. For some reason, my presence helps him sleep better than the pills and the alcohol, so he asked me to sign a contract to sleep with him until his insomnia

surprised. “Edrick has had sleeping problems since

shrugged. “I don’t know why, but for some reason, it just works. He usually falls asleep as soon as I

did you both come to realize

I merely shrugged. “We both nodded off in the living room one night,” I lied. Ethan still seemed a bit suspicious,

subject and turning to walk down the stairs. “Breakfast

by his side as he took the first step down, turned back to face me. “Don’t worry,” he said with a smile. “We’re friends.

ultimately somehow 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 story over the poor human nanny’s side of the story, and I especially couldn’t be entirely sure that Edrick wouldn’t

to wake Ella up and give her breakfast. When I arrived downstairs, however,

the table. This dining room was much smaller and 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 the room to throw her arms around me excitedly. She was still in her pajamas and had a bit of whipped cream on the side of her mouth, and obviously appeared to be currently

is Bell-jam waffles and… om–” She paused, chewing on the syllables on her tongue, before giving

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

to face me.

on the side of her

the chair beside her. I went to lift the silver dome that was covering my plate, but before I could, a servant scurried over and did it for

said.

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