Wild Christmas: A Single Dad and Nanny Steamy Romance by Sadie King

Author:Sadie King [King, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

8

NATE

The next few weeks pass in a blur. I get used to the smell of cinnamon from all the baking Freya’s doing. The Christmas songs don’t seem so bad now, and I hum along as I get to know the lyrics to her favorite.

The girls spend hours playing in the living room, rearranging the decorations on the Christmas tree and making more and more streamers. They fight less, both caught up in the excitement of Christmas.

Freya hums as she moves about the house, and I find myself smiling every time she comes into the room.

We watch another movie together and then another, making our way through Freya’s favorite Christmas movies. But I stay firmly on the far side of the couch, not wanting to throw myself at Freya again even though it’s taking everything I have not to.

I keep to my office in the evenings when we’re not watching a movie, not trusting myself to be around her. Since I nearly kissed her on the couch, I’ve kept my distance even though it’s killing me. But she’s the nanny, and I can’t take advantage of that even if she did want me.

I regret storming off that night the way I did.

She can’t have known the fear her words sparked in me, and I’m not ready to voice them.

I apologized the next day and ever since I’ve kept myself guarded, maintaining a distance and keeping it professional.

It’s the day before Christmas Eve, and Maisie is at forest school today. Even with a nanny, I like to get her out with other kids a few times a week to socialize. Maybe she’ll learn the people skills I seem to lack.

The house is quiet without the girls, and I stay in my office transferring data off a client’s PC while I get in a few games of Tour of Duty.

My character darts behind an abandoned shed, but I don’t see the enemy on the other side. I fire, but it’s too late. Red splatters the screen, and my character grunts as the bullet wound to the chest ends him.

“Shit.”

I pull off my headphones and throw them down on the desk. I can’t concentrate on shooting bad guys knowing that Freya is wandering around the house on her own.

It’s her day off and I thought she’d head out of the house, but the imminent snowstorm has kept her inside. I hate to think of her sitting up in her room alone.

It never bothered me with the last nanny, but Freya is different. Freya has soft curves and a smile that lights up the room.

I shake the thought out of my head. She’s too young for me, too innocent.

I check the download from the client’s files and head to the kitchen to get some lunch. I expect to run into her at any turn, but the house is quiet.

Once in the kitchen, I grab some bread and leftover chicken and a few other bits and pieces from the fridge to make a chicken sandwich.

There’s a lot of food, and I don’t know if Freya’s had lunch yet.

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