Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 69: Shopping for Baby

Moana

One night, I was reading a bedtime story to Ella when I found myself nodding off in the chair by her bed. I didn’t wake up until a couple of hours later. She was fast asleep and I didn’t want to wake her, so I quietly got up and slipped back into my room to go back to sleep.

When I walked back into my room, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, seeing as how tired I was. I moved my sketchbook aside and climbed into the covers, and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, I woke up with a headache. I groaned and sat up, rubbing my eyes, and as I did so I noticed something sitting on my bedside table that I hadn’t noticed the night before: a glass of brown liquid.

Furrowing my brow, I picked up the glass and inspected it. It was certainly one of Edrick’s whiskey glasses from his minibar, and when I sniffed its contents, I quickly realized that it was, in fact, whiskey.

I frowned. Why was there a glass of whiskey on my bedside table? I hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary the night before; had Edrick come into my room looking for me?

I decided that I would ask him about it later, and got up to start getting ready for the day.

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When I came out of my room and walked over to the dining room, Edrick was already awake and was sitting at the dining room table with a plate of toast, a coffee, and a stack of financial reports in front of him. He looked up when I entered, and immediately I could tell that he was guilty when his eyes flickered to the now-empty whiskey glass that I’d dumped out into my bathroom sink.

setting the glass down

was on, so I went to shut it off. I guess I

he shouldn’t have been drinking so much in the middle of the night that he would forget a whiskey glass on my

taking a nonchalant sip of his coffee. “I’m going to the baby supply store while Ella is in training. You

my room and put on a nicer outfit. I opted for the same blue dress I bought at the farmers’ market. As I

families dressed in designer clothes roamed around outside as they walked from store to store, and there was a large marble fountain with a statue in the center surrounded by a small park with benches. I’d never been to outlet stores that were this nice, and even though I

out of the car, Edrick put on his face mask

climbed out and then jogged around to my side of the car. He opened the car door for me and even held out his hand to help me out. As I felt

the ground. There was a moment of silence, during which time I felt his eyes wander down to my dress, then linger

heel and starting to walk toward the stores, “we’ve got a

briskly toward the baby supply store, and by the time we arrived, I

many of the parents with young children also seemed to have human nannies with them that were doing all of the work to take care of

long after we began shopping, an attendant came to us with a

rubbing my belly as I walked around. I almost went

Edrick replied

smile widened. She then pulled out a handheld scanner and handed it to me. “If you’d like, you can walk around the store and use this to scan anything you want. Then, once you pay at

a cream-colored wicker bassinet. As I walked up to