The Billionaire's Nanny

His secret

After cleaning for only two hours, I realized how much work Emma had to do and I made a mental note to give her some much-needed commendation. By noon, I had only cleaned half of the house and I was going at a really fast pace in my opinion. Thankfully, I found out early enough that most of the rooms in the house were guest rooms and only had to be cleaned once a month, so I had much less work to do, laundry, shopping, and cleaning. I was already done with laundry and most of the cleaning and intended to go shopping after picking the kids up from school.

Just as I decided to take a break, my phone rang in my apron, and I felt some relief to see my best friend's name flashing on the screen.

"What's popping bess," I asked, grinning as I wiped the hallway windows on the third floor. I had never ventured this far off in the house and I knew my phone would come in very handy to call Lucas if I got lost along the way. Though I would rather not have him drive 15 miles just to come get me.

"That's the worst you have used so far," Celine said drily. I did not need to hear more to know that my best friend was upset.

"Don't blame me, I'm too occupied to think of a better line,"

"What are you doing?"

"Um right now?" I took a peek of the neighborhood through the glass, "currently looking at the wealthiest and one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in California through a window in this four-story mansion." I said in mock pride.

"Ughh," she groaned, "now I don't think you would be excited to hear that I just got off a helicopter ride from a fucking mountain top" she screamed the last part so loud, I had to push the phone from my ear as I chuckled.

"Don't count on it girlfriend, I'm just wiping windows."

"You're what now?" she sounded as shocked as I expected her to be.

"Well, I decided I would add cleaning duties to my nanny duties, seeing as I'm always bored when the kids leave," I said drily, moving over to the next window.

"You're kidding."

"Emma had some family issues and I offered to take over for her until she got back. Tell me what's going on Ibiza." I said changing the topic, hoping to get some spicy new gossip about how she was enjoying her vacation, but the sadness in her voice made my heart plummet.

"Well nothing new, except I might just be falling in love with his angel of a man."

"I would have been surprised if I did not see it coming all along," I chuckled humorlessly, feeling a sudden wave of happinss wash through me at the news.

"Have I really been that cheesy?"

"Well I've only heard Alex did this and Alex did that and oh Alex here and Alex everywhere for the last few months, plus you went on a fuckin trip C to a city of love. All that's left is falling like a sparrow flying like a dove," I added without missing a beat.

"Where did that even come from?" she sounded amused.

"You know that song, that says it must be love, by Don Williams or something."

"I don't like you so much right now, plus I'm not yet completely in love which means I have to find a way to fix this,"

"Only my best friend would want to hold back from relishing in the joy that comes from being in love." I finished up with the window cleaning and headed for the last room down the hallway. It was the only one left to be cleaned.

"Says the same person that refused to drill a guy she was busy drooling over for weeks," she said glibly.

"Okay tell me what's going on. You're the last person to want to pull away from the good stuff, you're like the fuck it let's eat all of the sugar in the world, we'll deal with diabetes tomorrow kind of person."