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.”

it’s any of my business, but it does sort of appear as though

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

chuckled again. “A sleeping

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

“Edrick has had sleeping problems since before Ella was

works. He usually falls asleep as soon as

“How did you both

stand with his brother, so I merely shrugged. “We both nodded off in the living room

subject and turning to walk

by his side as he

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 or Ella, wouldn’t still take

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

with a beautiful array of breakfast

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

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

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

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

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

you,” I said. “This

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