His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 49: Call the Midwife

Moana

After I hung up with Ethan, I felt a bit lighter with the prospect of enjoying dinner with a friend. I met Ella out in the foyer after that, and we went over to the farmers’ market.

“Come on, Moana!” Ella yelled excitedly, pulling on my hand as we crossed the street to the park that was bustling with people.

She looked absolutely adorable in her little blue and white checkered sundress and her big, floppy sun hat with the blue ribbon that wiggled when she moved her head.

The stone pathway around the park was lined with various vendor stalls as we entered. Much of it was produce and canned goods, but there were also stalls with soft pretzels, face painting for children, handmade toys and clothing, and more. I had just deposited my first paycheck from Edrick, and had some money put aside after paying off a large chunk of my student loans. I double checked before we left the penthouse this time to make sure that I had my wallet, in order to avoid a repeat of the theme park.

As the morning marched on, Ella and I slowly made our way around to all of the stalls. I bought us both soft pretzels to eat on a bench together, smiling as I watched Ella happily swinging her legs next to me, then took her to get her face painted. After that, we stopped at the stalls with the handmade toys and clothing, where I bought Ella a little handmade stuffed duck. At this stall, there was a rack of womens’ dresses for sale.

Ella reached out her little hands and tugged on one of the dresses. It was a long, flowy dress in a sky blue color.

“Moana, this is so pretty!” she said, pointing. “You could match me!”

“I take it that blue is someone’s favorite color?” the attendant asked, looking at Ella with a big smile.

Ella nodded matter-of-factly. “Mhm. I love blue.”

“I’ll tell you what,” the attendant said, standing and coming over to check the price on the tag before looking at me. “If you want to try it on, I’ll give you a twenty-five percent discount. I think this color would be lovely on you.”

face get red. “I

chimed in with a wink. “Besides, a pretty

like correcting the attendant, and between her affectatious smile and Ella’s pleading look, I finally agreed. “Okay,” I said, to which Ella squealed

took the dress off of the rack, then led me over to the back of the tent, where there was a curtain in the corner. She pulled the curtain

inside and closing the curtain. I sighed once I was inside and held the dress up to myself; it was a pretty color, and the shape was nice. Maybe I could dress it down a bit to wear as an everyday dress, or to go out for lunch on my little

down to my ankles and the skirt flowed when I moved, but the waist fit snugly to show off my curves. It had two thin straps that

the

you think?”

lovely on you!” the attendant said as she clasped her hands together. Meanwhile, Ella squealed again

Ella asked, jumping up

out of place with nothing else on but my tote bag, my sandals, and my sun hat, but decided that it

…

at the penthouse, I began to feel ill on the elevator. I hardly made it to the bathroom before I began to retch. When I

jumped and whirled around on my feet

g-good morning, Selina,” I said, my voice shaking slightly from the recent vomiting spell in

me and brusquely cupped my breast

back and smacking her hand away as my face

are heavy. Are you sure you’re

already told you

more and she narrowed her eyes. “I was a midwife for many years, you know,” she said. “I know a pregnant woman when I see one. But

Selina turned on her heel and left my

but I couldn’t bring myself to admit the truth… Especially not now that Edrick had been so blatantly cruel to me over the past several days. I still wasn’t sure whether I wanted to bring a child into a situation like

turned this way and that in the mirror, admiring how the bodice fit so perfectly and how the skirt twirled when I moved — and then, without thinking, I turned to the side to look at my belly, and I imagined how it would

I wondered if it would be a little girl like Ella, or a little boy. I wondered if the child would have red

always wanted children. Just…

didn’t know if I could bring myself to end