⭐️“We’re so focused on the future that we don’t realize that today was what we prayed for years ago. Enjoy your today.”⭐️
___
I whistle to myself softly as I go to wake Lorie. I open the curtains and take a moment to let the sun warm my skin.
I'm in a good mood this morning!
With a smile on my face, I turn to Lorie. She's grumpy. I can tell. But then... Why wouldn't she be?
Nora: "Good morning, Lorie!"
Lorie: "Morning."
Nora: "Let's see, what's wrong? Yesterday, it was the heat... and the day before it was the color of my clothes. What are you going to criticize today?"
Lorie: "Apart from you, nothing."
Nora: "All these niceties in the morning! It's too much!"
Lorie: "All you have to do is be a good nanny and I won't be mean to you."
My smile fades away.
I won't let the little brat spoil my day!
Lorie: "No need to glare at me like that! I'm going to take a shower."
I'm speechless.
She's a fine one to talk about glaring!
I prepare her clothes for school, make her bed and tidy up her room while she freshens up.
When she comes out of the shower, wrapped up in her towel, I go to the bathroom while she gets dressed and clear everything away.
I ask her to sit on a chair so I can untangle her long locks. After several weeks of struggling, we've finally set up some kind of a routine.
Seeing to her hair is one of the calmest moments of the day. I actually enjoy it.
I hear the door creak and raise my head in surprise. Drogo gives me a naughty wink and a wave.
Drogo: "Everything okay in here?"
Lorie: "Drogo!"
The little one gets up before I'm done with her and throws herself in her brother's arms.
He kisses her on the top of the head and laughs.
Drogo: "You're full of energy this morning!"
He sits his sister back down on the chair and lays a sneaky kiss on my lips. It's soft... like the touch of a butterfly's wings.
Drogo: "Are you having breakfast this morning?"
Nora: "I'm not sure if I'll have time."
Drogo: "Come on... Everyone's downstairs waiting for you."
Nora: "Okay... I'll hurry then."
He steps backwards with a sexy smile on his lips, before rushing out into the hallway. I sigh, not knowing that Lorie is watching me with her beady little hawk eyes.
Lorie: "You're such an idiot!"
Nora: "Lorie..."
Lorie: "You are though. I saw you looking at Drogo..."
Nora: "So?"
She just laughs at me. She laughs with such scorn. God, she's really riling me up!
Lorie: "Drogo doesn't like anyone except his brothers and me. You're nothing to him."
YOU ARE READING
One Last Hope
ParanormalNora Hale has decided to move to Mystery Spell to follow the exciting and esoteric course of its unusual university. Engaged as an au pair for the Bartholy family, she is in charge of looking after little Lorie. Her hosts, Three rich and quite eccen...
