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

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

chuckled again. “A

sleep better than the pills and the alcohol, so he asked me to sign a contract to sleep with him until his

Ethan asked, sounding a bit surprised. “Edrick has

reason, it just works. He usually falls asleep as soon as I do and

“How did you

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

said, changing the subject and turning to walk down

he took the first step down, turned back

it even worse was knowing that, should we be caught, it would ultimately somehow wind up being entirely my fault. I couldn’t be entirely sure that anyone, including Ethan

I decided that I needed to continue with my duties and go downstairs to wake Ella up and give her breakfast. When I arrived downstairs,

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

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

Verona said with a chuckle. “And

to face

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 with my thumb

pulled out the chair beside her. I went to lift the silver dome that was covering my plate, but before I could,

said. “This

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