Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Nanny and the Alpha Daddy
#Chapter 18: The Case of the Mystery Earrings
Moana

I finished preparing lunch with the maids and helped them to set the meal out on the dining room table. Although I had already eaten a quick meal in the kitchen earlier as we prepared the food, it was still my duty as Ella’s nanny to stay with her and help her if she needed anything. Besides, the grumpy look on Ella’s face whenever Kelly was around only softened when I was near her, which made me want to be near her even more as support.

I sat beside Ella for the duration of the lunch, helping her to cut her food, keep her clothes clean, and get her whatever she needed. Edrick, Verona, and Kelly spoke with each other about trivial things as though I wasn’t even there, which was fine with me. If they had tried to involve me in their conversation, I likely wouldn’t have known the right things to say. I’d never dealt with such wealthy people in my life, let alone tried to have meaningful conversation with them.

Not being personally involved in the conversation also allowed me to be more observant — and one thing that I observed was that Kelly was being much more quiet and reserved now than she had been before. She absentmindedly picked at her salad with her fork, hardly eating anything at all.

“Pour me some more tea, would you?” Kelly said suddenly, shooting me a look out of the corner of her eyes.

“Right away,” I said, standing and walking around the table to pick up the teapot. I noticed that Kelly kept her eyes intensely focused on me the entire time as I walked back to pour her tea, but I pretended that I didn’t see it.

Kelly was silent for a moment as I poured her tea. I felt her gaze focused on the side of my head, burning furiously.

When I sat down, Kelly took a sip of her tea before speaking again, this time looking at Edrick.

“Whose extra daily necessities were in your room earlier, Edrick?” she asked, setting down her teacup with a clatter.

Edrick raised an eyebrow. “Pardon?”

“I saw earrings on your side table,” she said. “I’m assuming they weren’t yours.”

small gasp

feel my ears to see if I had put my earrings in that morning. As a knot formed in my stomach, I glanced down at my own tea to see in my reflection that I had not, in fact, put my

Edrick replied after an uncomfortable pause, sounding so nonchalant it made my stomach sick. “I’m not sure. Sometimes Ella

slowly turned her head to look up

that Kelly would call Edrick out on his bluff and expose our unexplainable sleeping arrangement. Thankfully, she didn’t

we were kids, and we used to drive our training coaches insane? We used to run off into the woods as wolves together and

do remember,” Edrick replied, almost absentmindedly, as he cut his food with

Ella. “I’m sure you misbehave all of the time

frowned and pulled away. “Actually, I always do my training,” she said, her little voice

Kelly returned

luncheon continued, I couldn’t help but feel guilty for my arrangement with Edrick after hearing about how he and his childhood sweetheart used to act together. It felt wrong

with his childhood lover made me admittedly

…

while. Ella seemed to get sleepy — although I suspected that she just wanted an excuse to be alone — so I took her to her room. When I finished tucking her in for her nap,

she saw me, waving me over before I could walk away. I still felt Kelly’s cold gaze on me as I tentatively walked up to Edrick’s mother. Verona, much unlike Kelly, was smiling a bit and seemed a little more open to my presence

I said politely as I approached. “And you

mouth to say something, but Verona spoke before

dinner,” Verona said. “It seems he’s forgotten… Or, he just thought he could get out of going this year.” Her eyes slid over to Edrick for a moment, who didn’t seem to