His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 69: Shopping for Baby

Moana

One night, I was reading a bedtime story to Ella when I found myself nodding off in the chair by her bed. I didn’t wake up until a couple of hours later. She was fast asleep and I didn’t want to wake her, so I quietly got up and slipped back into my room to go back to sleep.

When I walked back into my room, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, seeing as how tired I was. I moved my sketchbook aside and climbed into the covers, and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, I woke up with a headache. I groaned and sat up, rubbing my eyes, and as I did so I noticed something sitting on my bedside table that I hadn’t noticed the night before: a glass of brown liquid.

Furrowing my brow, I picked up the glass and inspected it. It was certainly one of Edrick’s whiskey glasses from his minibar, and when I sniffed its contents, I quickly realized that it was, in fact, whiskey.

I frowned. Why was there a glass of whiskey on my bedside table? I hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary the night before; had Edrick come into my room looking for me?

I decided that I would ask him about it later, and got up to start getting ready for the day.

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table with a plate of toast, a coffee, and a stack of financial reports in front of him. He looked up when I entered, and immediately I could tell that

asked, setting the glass down

finally nodded his head. “Yes. I saw that your light was on, so I

have been drinking so much in the middle of the night that he would forget a whiskey glass on my bedside table, but

supply store while Ella is in training.

little surprised by this sudden proposal. Already he was looking into buying baby supplies? And, even more surprising than that, he was going out in public with me and was even planning on taking me for dinner? I didn’t protest, however, and simply turned around to go back to my room and put on a nicer outfit. I opted for the same blue dress I bought at the farmers’ market. As I

Happy families dressed in designer clothes roamed around outside as they walked from store to store, and there was a large marble fountain with a statue in the center surrounded by a small park with benches. I’d never been to outlet stores that

we got out of the car, Edrick put on his face mask again to hide his

around to my side of the car. He opened the car door for me and even held out his hand to help me out. As I felt my hand in his large palm, my heart started to pound and I felt

which time I felt his eyes wander down to my dress, then linger on

faded. “Come on,” he said, turning on his heel and

he walked briskly toward the baby supply store, and by the time we arrived, I

around a bit at the other customers. I couldn’t help but notice that many of the parents with young children also seemed to have human nannies with them that were doing all of the work to take care of the children. Admittedly, it bothered me a little bit that some couples were ignoring their children while their nannies did

long after we began shopping, an attendant came

around. I almost went to take my hand away, but then I remembered that I could be open with my pregnancy now, which filled me with an immense amount

Edrick replied with a

handheld scanner and handed it to me. “If you’d like, you can walk around the store and use this to scan anything you want. Then, once you pay at the register, one of our employees will gather everything and we can either have it

My jaw dropped when I spotted a lovely display with a cream-colored wicker bassinet. As I walked up to it and ran my hand along the fabric that was lined on the inside, it