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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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 he was guilty when his eyes flickered

setting the glass down on the

saw that your light was on, so I went to shut it off. I guess I set my drink

the middle of the night that he would forget a whiskey glass on my

dressed,” he said, taking a nonchalant sip of his coffee. “I’m going to the baby supply store while Ella is in training. You should come with me. Afterwards, we’ll pick Ella up and I’ll take

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 put it on, I looked in the mirror and noticed that it seemed to hug my slightly

he drove just the two of us to a local strip of expensive outlet stores. As we pulled into the parking lot, I was a bit taken aback by all of the luxury sports cars that were parked outside. 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

car, Edrick put on his face mask again to hide

car door. I watched as he climbed out and then jogged around to my side of the car. He opened the car door for me and

a moment of silence, during which time I felt his eyes wander down to my dress, then linger

on,” he said, turning on his heel and

toward the baby supply store, and by the time we arrived, I was already a little out of breath from trying to keep up with

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

after we began shopping, an attendant came to us with a smile

as I walked around. I almost went to take my hand away, but then I remembered that I could be

Edrick replied with a

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 delivered to your home or help you

bassinet. As I walked up to it and ran my hand along the fabric that was lined on the inside,