His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 91: Sweet Affection

Moana

Sophia didn’t ask about Edrick again after that. I knew that she could tell that something more was going on than I was leading her to believe, but she didn’t pry any further and just enjoyed the remainder of the walk with me. We talked a bit about her plans with the foundation a bit as well as her need for a secretary to help her out; up ahead, as we talked about the secretary, I swore I could see Edrick glancing over his shoulder at us as though he was listening intently.

Finally, we made it to the ice cream parlor. It was a cute little mom and pop shop on a small strip of quaint little stores, and when we went inside it was like stepping back in time. There was a long counter with stools to sit at and there was a nice older man working behind the counter wearing a red and white striped uniform.

“Well, hello there!” the old man said cheerfully as we entered. “So many little ones!”

Sophia and I smiled and helped the children sit at the counter. Once they were all seated, we stood with Edrick as there were no chairs left.

“What can I get for everyone?” the old man asked, leaning on the counter and beaming at the children, who all looked over at Sophia expectantly.

the old man with the flavors of their choice, but he somehow managed to get all of their orders just right. Sophia also ordered a bowl of chocolate ice cream, and I ordered French vanilla. The old man handed us our ice cream and Sophia thanked both him and Edrick

a favorite flavor of mine, and I couldn’t help but smile a bit as

however, that Edrick didn’t seem to get himself

you going to have any?” I asked, furrowing my brow. It felt a bit odd having him pay

shook his head. “I don’t really eat ice cream, so I’m

almost in unison. “You don’t eat ice cream?” Clara insisted.

stifling a laugh. I could tell that Edrick didn’t quite know how to react,

I said. “Try mine. It’s not

his mask down to taste the ice cream, but I had been comfortable since the moment we came in here as the nice old man was the only other person here and seemed to be the type to be entirely indifferent to celebrities. Edrick, seemingly coming to the same conclusion, finally tugged his mask down a little and ate the ice cream right off the spoon without even taking it out of my hand like I had expected. I noticed that his cheeks turned a little red

whichever flavor she had,”

smile. Edrick watched intently, almost in a childlike way, as the old man plopped two scoops of ice cream into the bowl, drizzled a little caramel on top, and handed it to

bit hurt after everything, it was nice to see him acting so friendly and open with

only acting so sweet to make his daughter happy; not that that was necessarily a bad thing, and it was all I really wanted from him to begin with, but I supposed that there was still a part of me that secretly wished that the Alpha billionaire would be kind like this out of his own heart and not for any particular reason. Still, I knew

stifled a chuckle. “You have ice cream on your cheek,” she said, gesturing to

face go red and grabbed a napkin to wipe it off,

stifling another laugh.