Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Nanny and the Alpha Daddy
#Chapter 9: Bedmates
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As soon as I saw Edrick sleeping on the other side of my bed, I immediately averted my gaze down at myself to make sure that I was still dressed.

I was still fully clothed… And this time, I knew for a fact that I hadn’t h***ked up with him. I was completely sober when I went to bed, so I would’ve remembered.

So, why was Edrick in my bed?

While I was still processing what was going on, Edrick’s eyes suddenly opened and he stared right at me. I yelped and jumped out of the bed, running to the other side of the room.

“What are you doing in here?” I asked, my voice shaking.

Edrick slowly sat up and looked around, looking equally as confused as I was. “I have no idea,” he said, looking down at himself in the same manner I did; no doubt to also check to make sure he was fully clothed. “I was really drunk last night. I guess I confused your room with mine.”

“Your room is all the way on the other side of the penthouse,” I growled. “And it’s an entirely different layout. You weren’t so drunk that you would have made such an obvious mistake in your own home.”

Edrick was silent for several moments before throwing the covers off of himself and swinging his long legs over the edge of the bed. “I’m sorry,” he said, standing and splaying out his hands with his palms facing outward in a display of surrender. “I really don’t know what happened. Last I remember…”

His voice faded and his brow furrowed.

appalled that he would have me sign a contract stating I wouldn’t get romantically involved with him, only

shook his head, frowning as he stared down at the floor. “I was awake for quite a while after you went

made with the contract and making me promise not to get romantically involved, you got sentimental over our one night

that. There’s just something about you that helps me sleep. I remember when we slept together in the hotel, I slept like a baby that night for the first time in years. I don’t know what it is, but it must’ve drawn me to

it. If he wanted to become involved with me so badly,

“Unless what?”

with me. With

so important to you?” I asked. “What, are you

be the cure for my insomnia. We can write up a supplemental agreement — in exchange for a salary increase, we’ll share a bed. Just until I can get back into a

eyes and thought back to the image in my mind of the drawer full of pills in the kitchen, followed by the image of Edrick drunkenly swaying in the living room while his daughter

promise not to make

promise,” Edrick said. “I’m only thinking about what’s best for my daughter. Who, by the way, can never know about

next to someone was tempting. I could just see it as a way to pay off my student loans more quickly, and maybe he was right about it only needing

I said with a pensive nod. “I’ll

…

new agreement with Edrick. Ella didn’t seem to notice that my mind was wandering a bit as I helped her get ready for the day and attend her

I couldn’t deny the feelings that arose in me when I woke up to find him unexpectedly next to me, even though