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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room, Edrick was already awake and was sitting at the dining room 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

room last night?” I asked, setting the

“Yes. I saw that your light was on, so I went to shut it off. I guess I

so much in the middle of the night that he would forget a whiskey glass on my bedside table, but before I could,

store while Ella is in training. You should come

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 growing belly well, and I even found myself running my hands along my belly with a smile on my face as I looked in the mirror. I couldn’t wait to watch my belly grow over

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 benches. I’d never been to outlet stores that were this nice,

car, Edrick put on

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 even held out his hand to help me out. As

ground. There was a moment of silence, during which time I felt his eyes wander down to my dress, then linger on

his heel and starting to walk toward the stores, “we’ve got a lot to do before Ella gets out of

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

did, I also looked 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

came to us with a smile on her

I hadn’t realized it, but I was rubbing my belly as I walked around. I almost

replied with a

want. Then, once you pay at the register, one

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 felt softer