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.

I had, before he came to the same realization that I did and abruptly jumped out of my bed. For

armchair last night when I got home, and I didn’t want to wake you, so I carried you to bed. I… I guess I was so exhausted I fell asleep without

to bed without waking me made my heart flutter a little. It was sweet, knowing that he would do something like that

stammered in response, feeling my face get

his heel and briskly

him. Did the cold Alpha CEO really go out of his way to carry me to 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

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

her nap, I made my way over to the kitchen to make myself something

standing in the

were at work,”

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 face as I made my own

slices of bread, then cut the sandwich diagonally and poured myself a glass of milk. When I turned back around, I felt my face go red again when I saw that Edrick was looking right at me over the top of his newspaper. When he saw that I noticed him, he quickly hid his face behind his newspaper again and cleared his

he said, somewhat abruptly. “It’s not for a few weeks, but Ella will of course be expected

hand and my glass of milk in the other. Many of my dresses were getting to the point where my belly showed, aside from the couple of loose dresses that I had, but neither of

said. “Do you

now looking at me intently. “No, no, it’s not that,” I reassured him, setting my lunch down on the counter.

asked. “It’s only a few weeks from now. You probably won’t be

being ungrateful or too nervous, but I really didn’t have anything appropriate for a Morgan family banquet. Even at the last party, when I wore Selina’s nice dress, I still felt underdressed