Page 9 of Nanny for the Wolf Daddy

It was a very exhilarating thought, but she had to let it be only a thought. At least for the time being.

Three days had passed since she’d had the time or energy to look at her business email. Sitting at Nox’s office with her laptop, she found her email account flooded with applicants. With a groan, she began to sort through them.

She had put Violet down for her nap after a long morning of breakfast and playtime. The little girl had a lot of energy and the same fierce dedication that Nox showed through his adamant attitude about Kelli sticking around as a nanny. Violet had grown used to Kelli, which meant Kelli had already gone through the testing phase.

Somehow, she needed to balance her business responsibilities with taking care of the cutie Violet was. It wasn’t reasonable for Nox to expect her to do both. Since he was a man who always got what he wanted, she would need to be strong and push back.

After merely twenty minutes of napping, Kelli heard Violet moving around in the guest bedroom. She had childproofed it as much as she could, but there were still some sharp corners she was concerned about.

Kelli went into the bedroom and found Violet playing with one of the few statue ornaments she had missed when removing potential dangers.

“No, Violet,” Kelli said, going to the girl. “It’s sleepy time now. You know what that means.”

“No!” the little girl bellowed, not allowing Kelli to remove the statue from her hands.

Kelli was impressed with how fast the little girl’s hands darted through the air, keeping Kelli from taking away the wolf-shaped figurine. After a few moments of grabbing nothing but air, Kelli snatched the statue from the child’s strong grip, which caused her to launch into a waterfall of frustrated tears. Immediately lifting the toddler into her arms, she rubbed her back and cooed into her ear.

“It’s okay, honey,” she whispered. “Kelli doesn’t want you to hurt yourself, that’s all.”

Violet eventually calmed down but wasn’t going to sleep any time soon. So Kelli set up the girl in the office with toys while she returned to her laptop.

She was immersed in her work for a very brief time, but soon enough, Kelli smelled something rank coming out of her diaper. It was clear the toddler had soiled herself, so Kelli abandoned her workstation to bathe the child.

Violet was a lively little girl. She splashed around in the tub as Kelli ran a sponge down her legs, knocking out waves upon waves of bubbled water. One of the favorite bath time toys was a yellow rubber ducky that looked so innocent and cute until Violet squeezed it and shot water in her face.

Kelli tried to distract her with more toys, but Violet wasn’t having it. She giggled and screamed as she smacked the water, successfully soaking Kelli’s outfit and cascading water all over the floor in thick puddles.

She managed to get the little girl out of the tub and dress her, and now she needed to change her own clothes again. She carried Violet with her into the bedroom, where she changed her entire outfit, underwear and bra included.

“Boobies!” the child screamed.

Kelli couldn’t help but laugh. She was strapping on her brassiere when Violet ran over and pointed at her cleavage. It made her feel a bit lighter after a long, hectic day.

Nox returned home later that evening just as the sun dipped under the horizon. She had made dinner and had finished feeding Violet when she heard a car crawl into the driveway.

They waved out the window at him, and Kelli realized that the very sight of him made her heart flutter.

When he came inside, she felt awkward, nearly using Violet as a shield to block her from the embrace she longed for.

She put Violet to bed, and they ate together. He appeared more tired than usual, so she avoided the subject of his brother until he decided to present the information himself.

“Nox, we have to talk.”

He looked up from his plate. “What is it?”

“I can’t run the agency and take care of Violet,” she confessed. “She’s at an unpredictable age, and it really interferes with the applicants I’m trying to hire. You have to let me bring someone in who I can train and help me out while I’m getting my own work done.”

She noticed how Nox’s hand reddened as he gripped the fork. She thought he could easily break the metal in half if he wanted to.

“I thought we’d been over this,” he said through gritted teeth. “I don’t want anyone else. I just want you.”

Kelli narrowed her eyes at him, holding her forkful of corn in the air. She was starting to think that Nox’s lack of flexibility about the matter of hiring another nanny had less to do with the actual nanny job and more to do with having Kelli all to himself.

She had assumed there had been some attraction at least, but she had been so caught up in her own interest in him she hadn’t seen what was right in front of her.

The man was literally a beast, and he wanted to consume her.

The thought ran a tingle up Kelli’s spine, and she shifted in the chair. She shoved the forkful into her mouth and munched on it softly.

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