The Playboy and the Nanny by Anne McAllister

Author:Anne McAllister [Anne McAllister]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance - Harlequin
ISBN: 9780373120055
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1999-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

So she stayed.

And if her conscience bothered her whenever Stavros rang up to demand a report, she took solace in the fact that she could tell him quite honestly that she and Nikos were getting along, that he was talking to her, that they seemed to be on the same wavelength.

This last might have been stretching it a bit. But over the next three days she really did find herself getting attuned to Nikos's work habits and thought patterns.

Maybe it was an instinctive rapport that grew up between them because she had grown up sailing boats, too. She didn't know the first thing about tankage and impact resistance, and some kind of density or other that seemed to be giving him headaches figuratively as well as literally, but these were boats he was talking about, figuring about, worrying about—even in the abstract—and as such she was interested.

Or maybe she was just interested in him.

She discounted that, of course. She didn't want to think about the chemistry that existed between herself and Nikos Costanides! If he could put it aside for the best interests of his business, so could she!

That's what she told herself. For the most part, that's what she did.

But the awareness was still there.

Sometimes, to get away from it, she would leave him working and go up to the pool and swim or play with Alexander and talk to Julietta, who was seven months into a difficult pregnancy and was happy to have someone else to talk to and to chase Alexander around.

She did her best to avoid Stavros. For all his obtuseness when it came to dealing with his son, he was surprisingly astute in other ways. She thought he might well manage to worm some hint of Nikos's occupation out of her. Especially because she would have really liked to tell him.

"I don't see why you won't tell him," she said to Nikos more than once. "It would make all the difference."

"Yes," Nikos agreed drily, "it would."

Which, she understood from the silence that followed, was exactly why he wasn't. It was a matter of pride. And if Stavros was a proud, stubborn man, Nikos had more pride than anyone she knew.

So Mari didn't say a word. Even though she was working for Stavros, her allegiance was to his son. It would have been that way even if Nikos were really four years old. Though the parent footed the bills, a nanny's first commitment was to the child.

Even if the child was thirty-two!

They worked well together. That was the good news. The bad news, as far as Mari was concerned, was that, now that he felt no need to hide his career from her, she liked him even more.

She saw the serious, dedicated side of Nikos Costanides that he kept well hidden from his father and die rest of the world. She saw the way he tackled the problems Brian called with and spent hours, literally, working them out, trying first one thing and then another. He was dedicated, tenacious, determined.

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