The Summer Nanny by Holly Chamberlin

Author:Holly Chamberlin [Chamberlin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 66

“Remind me why I’m here at this ridiculous hour?” Amy asked, rubbing her eyes with her fingertips.

Hayley swallowed before replying. “Because I asked you if you wanted to meet for breakfast and you said yes.”

“Why did I say yes? I hate mornings.”

Hayley shrugged. In truth, she wasn’t quite sure why she had asked Amy to meet that morning. Lately their conversations seemed to degenerate into cantankerous arguments. Hayley disliked Cressida Prior and the way she treated Amy, and Amy disapproved of Hayley’s idea of getting Ethan Whitby to marry her as a way out of near poverty. Frankly, Hayley didn’t see a way to resolve either issue without more argument.

“That’s an awfully big breakfast,” Amy noted. “Pancakes and sausage?”

“Have you ever spent the morning running after two active toddlers? I need all the fuel I can get.” Hayley eyed Amy’s half a grapefruit. “And just because you’re starving yourself doesn’t mean the rest of us have to.”

“I’m not starving myself,” Amy said petulantly. “I’m just not very hungry. Look, I’m sorry I was so bitchy about your leaving the pub early the other night. It’s just that I still don’t think setting out to trap Ethan Whitby into a marriage is the right thing to do.”

“Keep your voice down,” Hayley said with a quick glance over her shoulder. “And don’t use the word trap.”

“What word should I use?” Amy asked.

“My plan to leave behind this life I’ve been living and to make a brighter future for myself and my mother.”

Amy sighed. “Then rely on yourself and not on a man. You’re smart, Hayley. I wish I was half as smart as you are. Why don’t you just use your brain!”

“You need more than a brain to succeed in life,” Hayley replied, putting her fork and knife on her empty plate. “You need luck, which is something I never seem to have.”

“Cressida didn’t need a rich husband to succeed. She did everything all on her own.”

“Really?” Hayley said. “Didn’t you tell me Cressida is from a wealthy family who sent her to an Ivy League school? I don’t have that leg up, Amy. I couldn’t even finish my degree from a freakin’ community college because my mother needed the money I’d saved to pay six months of back rent. Six months! How we weren’t thrown out of the place I don’t know. The landlord is a saint. Not like the last landlord we had, who did throw us out, not that I could blame him after my idiot father broke almost every window in the apartment.”

Amy pushed aside her plate. “I don’t care what people say. Money doesn’t buy happiness. It just doesn’t.”

“Maybe not,” Hayley said, “but it pays the mortgage and buys the groceries and gets you good medical care, all of which seems like stuff that would make any normal person happy.”

“Okay, maybe that’s true, but money can’t buy love.”

Hayley laughed. “Who said anything about love? I’m not expecting love.”

“Well you should expect love,” Amy argued. “Everyone should.”

“Amy,

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