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.”

my business, but it does sort

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

chuckled again. “A sleeping

sleep better than the pills

sounding a bit surprised. “Edrick has had sleeping

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

“How did you both come to realize

stand with his brother, so I merely shrugged. “We both

he said, changing the subject and turning

still wide. Ethan, noticing my absence by his side as he took

and my secret being discovered still loomed heavily above my head. What made 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

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

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

paused, chewing on the syllables on her tongue, before

Verona said with a chuckle. “And it’s

to face me. “Will you

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 before it got smeared all over my silk pajamas and nodded. “Sure,”

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

you,” I said. “This looks

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