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.

last night?” I asked, setting the glass down on the table

light 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

taking a nonchalant sip of his coffee. “I’m going to the baby supply store while Ella is in training. You should come with me. Afterwards, we’ll pick Ella up and I’ll take you

supplies? And, even more surprising than that, he was going out in public with me and was even planning on taking me for dinner? I didn’t protest, however, and simply turned around to go back to my room and put on a nicer outfit. I opted for the same blue dress I bought at the farmers’ market. As I

and I took Ella to training and dropped her off. Then, he drove just the two of us to a local strip of expensive outlet stores. As we pulled into the parking lot, I was a bit taken aback by all of the luxury sports cars that were parked outside. Happy families dressed in designer

of the car, Edrick put on his

he 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 my hand in his large palm, my heart started to pound and I felt

at the ground. There was a moment of silence, during which time

on his heel and starting to walk toward

as he walked briskly toward the baby supply store, and by the time we arrived, I was already

that many of the parents with young children also seemed to

we began shopping, an attendant came to us with a smile on her

nodding her head toward my belly. I hadn’t realized it, but I was rubbing my belly as I walked around. I almost went to take my hand away, but then I remembered that I could be open with my pregnancy now, which filled me with an immense amount

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you want. Then, once you pay at the register, one of our employees will gather everything and we can either have it delivered to

you,” I replied. Edrick and I walked away and continued to look. My jaw dropped when I spotted a lovely display with a cream-colored wicker bassinet. As I walked up to it and ran my hand along the fabric that was lined on the inside, it felt softer