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.

you in my room last night?” I asked, setting the glass down

then finally nodded his head. “Yes. I saw that your light was on, so I went to shut it off.

of the night that he would forget a whiskey glass on my bedside table, but before I could,

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 put it on, I looked in the mirror and

that were parked outside. Happy families dressed in designer clothes roamed around outside as they walked from store to store, and there

out of the car, Edrick put on his face mask again to

as 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

moment of silence, during which time I felt his eyes wander down to

as quickly as it came, his gentlemanly nature faded. “Come on,” he said, turning on his heel and starting to walk toward the stores,

arrived, I was already a little out of breath from trying to keep up with his

I also looked around a bit at the other customers. I couldn’t help but notice that many of the parents with young children also seemed to have human nannies with

attendant came to

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

replied with

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 the register, one of our employees will gather everything and we can either have it delivered to your home or help

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