Nanny With Benefits: A Reverse Harem Romance by Cassie Cole

Author:Cassie Cole [Cole, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Juicy Gems Publishing
Published: 2020-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

21

Veronica

The next day I woke up and Oliver was gone.

I panicked—I checked under the crib, under the bed, in the closet. I wasn’t a deep sleeper, so I should have heard him. Finally I rushed out of the nursery to see Bryce feeding him breakfast in the kitchen. Oliver squealed happily when he saw me, knocking a spoon of oatmeal away.

“There you are,” I said with a deep sigh. “I thought I had lost you.”

“He’s got a while before he learns to turn doorknobs and escape,” Bryce said. “You were sleeping soundly so I didn’t want to disturb you.”

“I can take over from here,” I said, reaching for the spoon. Bryce waggled a finger at me.

“Nuh uh. It’s your day off. Did you forget?”

I had forgotten. Time here didn’t have the same weekly ebbs and flows as it did in the city. I didn’t realize it was Sunday.

“I don’t need a day off,” I said. “Ollie’s not that difficult. And I owe you for letting me stay at the lake house during the pandemic…”

“Stop it,” Bryce replied firmly. “I’m the one who owes you. A day off is good for your mental health.”

“Are you sure…” I began, but he cut me off.

“I took care of him, by myself, for the eleven months before you started nannying. I can handle one day.”

I put up my palms. “Okay, okay. You’ve convinced me.”

“Today is also pay day,” he added. “We agreed you’d be paid weekly. I PayPal’d it over to you. Let me know if there are any issues.”

I ate breakfast while watching Bryce feed Oliver. The baby kept fighting his father and reaching for me, but Bryce had made a point about me not helping so I stayed back and let them battle it out. Based on the amount of food on Bryce, it looked like Oliver won.

“You’re a gremlin,” Bryce told him. “Someone fed you after midnight, didn’t they?”

After breakfast I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. I took a cup of coffee out onto the balcony and watched the sun rise over Lake Summerstone. The lake surface was as still as a mirror, reflecting the trees and hills on the far shore. The only disturbance was a straight line heading toward our lake house, with triangular wake spreading out behind it. A swimmer. I watched Liam reach the shore and dry off with a towel on the beach. He jogged up the steps, leaving wet footprints on the wood.

“Didn’t get enough of a workout on the water?” I asked. “You have to jog the last bit too?”

Liam grinned in passing. “I’ve never seen a flight of stairs I didn’t want to jog up.”

I did the New York Times Crossword Puzzle on my phone. The Saturday and Sunday puzzles were the toughest and I barely made any progress after ten minutes, so I backtracked to last Monday’s puzzle and completed that instead. Then I did the Tuesday puzzle. I had spent most of the last year being a busy nanny for the Hendersons, and after getting fired I had spent every waking moment looking for another job.

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