His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 80: A Little Kindness

Moana

After I put Ella to bed, I decided to read in the living room for a little while to relax. The summer evening air was pleasant, but it was also warm, which made me sleepy. Before I knew it, I had dozed off entirely.

However, I woke up the next morning in my bed instead of in the chair.

That was strange… I didn’t remember getting up and going to bed, but I supposed that it wasn’t entirely unheard of. I yawned and rolled over onto my back, feeling the morning sun stream in through my window and hit my cheek…

But then, I saw something next to me: a person.

I immediately yelped and jumped out of bed instinctually. I relaxed a little when I saw that it was Edrick and not some stranger, but what was he doing in my bed? He was still wearing his clothes and even had his shoes on.

As I stood there, my brow furrowed, Edrick’s eyes suddenly snapped open and shocked me even further.

that I did and abruptly jumped out of my bed.

hair with an embarrassed expression on his face. “I saw you were sleeping on the armchair last night when I got home, and I didn’t

that explained it. While it was strange, hearing that he cared enough to carry me to bed without waking me made my heart flutter a little. It was sweet, knowing that he would do something like that

in response,

abruptly turned on his heel and

bed last night? The thought of it admittedly made my heart flutter, although the fact that he fell asleep in my bed was a little odd. Still, I figured that he really was just exhausted after running around all day, so I decided not to let it bother me and instead got ready for the

showering and putting on my clothes, I woke Ella up and got her ready. Unfortunately, we couldn’t go for our morning walk just in case we drew too much attention due to the tabloid, but Ella didn’t seem to mind as we spent the afternoon playing inside and doing arts and crafts instead. By mid-afternoon, however, she had completely tired herself out and was starting to get cranky, so I took it as an opportunity to give her a nap and take some time to rest for

fast asleep for her nap, I made my way over to the kitchen

was standing in the kitchen when

at work,” I said,

a newspaper in front of him, merely shrugged. “Meetings were short today,” he said. I nodded, feeling my face get red as I remembered waking up next to him, and quickly turned my back to hide my

a glass of milk. When I turned back around, I felt my face go red again when I saw that Edrick was looking

not for a

of my dresses were getting to the point where my belly showed, aside from the couple of loose dresses that

you not want to go

he had set his newspaper down and was now looking at me intently. “No, no, it’s not that,” I reassured him, setting my lunch down on

anything loose to wear?” he asked. “It’s only a few

coming across as being ungrateful or too nervous, but I really didn’t have anything appropriate for a