Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 177: Caffeine Crash

Moana

The rest of the weekend went by too quickly. I spent all of Sunday with Ella to make up for not seeing her on Saturday, and soon enough Monday morning came around.

However, I noticed something over the weekend as well as the first few days of the week: Mina’s sleepiness wasn’t getting any better. In fact, it only seemed to be getting worse, and it was making me nervous. At first, I thought it was just the pregnancy, but now I was beginning to think otherwise.

And in fact, there was something especially odd about it.

Mina seemed to get better at nighttime. She still had very little energy during that time, but it was an obvious improvement nonetheless. This slightly heightened energy would go on through the night and the early morning, but then she would get extremely sleepy again whenever I drank my morning coffee.

By Thursday, I was beginning to get suspicious. I decided then to try an experiment; on Thursday morning, I decided not to drink my morning coffee.

“Good morning,” Selina said as I walked into the kitchen. I was already dressed for work, and Ella was already sitting at the kitchen counter and eating her toast and eggs before school. I kissed Ella on top of her head and smiled at Selina, who had just placed a plate of breakfast down for me.

But when I sat down, I saw that my coffee was there. I subtly pushed it away and ate my breakfast without mentioning it, but Selina noticed that the cup was untouched as I finished eating and stood up to get ready to leave.

“You didn’t like your coffee?” she asked, looking a bit confused. “I thought you loved your morning coffee.”

“I do,” I replied with a nonchalant smile. “I’m just not in the mood for coffee this morning, I’m afraid.”

for wasting it, but I needed to find out if the coffee had something to do with

we walked out. He smiled at us as the elevator doors opened, but what he said

want your coffee this

it seem as though both Selina and Edrick were

said as the elevator doors opened to the lobby and we stepped out. “I

up again, and instead had pleasant conversation with Ella and myself as we walked to school. By

I noticed that Mina’s energy was indeed higher than it had been recently. In fact, by the time school was out and I walked out of the school

it was just the caffeine interacting poorly with

Ella said as we walked up to meet him. Edrick grinned and crouched down to let Ella climb up onto his shoulders. As he stood once more, however,

a

you something. It’s

cold smoothie cup out of his hand. “Thank

did you get a smoothie for me?” Ella

sighed and shook his head. “I’m sorry, Princess,” he replied. “I forgot. We’ll pass the smoothie cart on

said, holding the cup back out. “I don’t really need

an unexpected way, and his eyes widened. “No!” he said, almost

“Well… Why not?” I asked, looking down at

opening and closing his mouth, as though he was trying to come up with something to say. Seeing him like this made me nervous, and I couldn’t help but think back on Edrick’s strange obsession with my coffee that morning. I looked back down at the smoothie cup then and started to have an odd feeling

would like that flavor,” Edrick said with a smile. “Besides, it’s yours. If you