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He actually looked a little concerned. “I don’t know but I think it’ll be fun?”
38
***Ada***
“Youhavetotellme everything! This is all the other nannies in the neighborhood can talk about!” Jules showed me the photo on her phone and jabbed her red-painted nail at it. “This is a picture of you, my friend, kissing Collin Carrington!”
I grabbed the phone and gasped. Yeah, that was a very detailed picture, alright. Part of me wanted to save it and stash it so I’d never forget just how good Collin and I looked that night. The rest of me was horrified that I’d been photographed making out with one of my bosses and it was going around the neighborhood. “I am mortified.”
“Why?! You reeled a big one in, lady! He’s kissing you in public, where he knew it could be photographed. That means it’s serious!” She fanned herself and leaned back on the kitchen stool. “You two look hot together. I can feel the tension through the phone.”
The pressure of my parents coming and having all three Carrington brothers spending more and more time around me paired with the photo made me crack. I dropped my head to the kitchen island and groaned. “I don’t know what I’m doing, Jules!”
“You’re bagging yourself a very wealthy man, that’s what you’re doing.”
I shook my head. “It’s not that simple…”
“Why not? What else-” She stopped. “Wait. Is there someone else?”
I couldn’t admit to her what I was doing. It was too crazy. Yet, Ihadto say something. I felt like I was going to scream if I didn’t get something out. “It’s not… It’s just complicated. I think… I think I have feelings for all of them.”
Jules’ face went blank. “What?”
I rubbed my eyes and blew out a shaky breath. “I just see all of them a lot, you know? And I think I feel something for all of them. Not that they know, of course. It’s just not as simple as I kissed Collin and now we’re getting married.”
“Whoa.” She reached out and took my hand. “You seem sad, Ada. Are you okay?”
It’d been so long since I had a close friend. Work and Camden had come first for so long that my friends and I had all just drifted apart. Jules had been there for me every week, though, and she was so kind. “I am a little sad. My dad calls me Sad-a when I’m like this.”
She squeezed my hand. “What’s wrong?”
“I don’t want to like them. They’ve been jerks. They haven’t always been very good fathers. And then there’s the fact that there’s three of them! I can’t feel something for three men at the same time! I’m a Catholic!”
Jules snorted and then we both laughed at how ridiculous I was being. “Ada, you can’t help who you like. It’s obvious that Collin likes you, though. What about the other two?”
I looked away and shrugged. I didn’t want to say too much. I didn’t know what was okay to share and what wasn’t. “I don’t know.”
“They do! I can tell by the look on your face! Are you going to break up the Carrington brothers? Ada!”
That sobered me right up. “No. That’s not happening.”
She held her hands. “Okay, fine. You’re not going to break up the family. Are you going to sample them all at least? They’re so hot, Ada. If you don’t, it’s a crime against women everywhere.”
I rolled my eyes and shook my head. “I just don’t know what to do. I hated them just a little over a month ago. Now they’re having these moments of sweetness that melt me and I don’t know what to do. I should probably just leave. But I love the kids.”
“You love the kids?” Jules laughed. “Sorry. I just… Kids are great, of course, but… You’re clearly a very good woman.”
“I do love the kids. They’re great kids and I don’t want to leave them. Plus, Joe says I can’t leave. Which is infuriating because he’s such a controlling jerk sometimes but it’s also kind of hot. I feel like I’m going crazy. Tell me what to do. No, wait. You’re terrible. Your advice would get me in trouble.”
She wagged her eyebrows and nodded to the bottle of wine she’d tried to get me to drink when I first showed up looking stressed. I’d come for coffee, though. It was mid-morning. “My advice would get you tipsy and laid.”
“Trouble!” I laughed and waved her away.
“Sorry, I’m just processing what you said. Joe says you can’t leave?” She frowned. “That’s weird.”
“No, it’s not like a kidnappy type of thing. It’s usually when I’m threatening to quit because he won’t do something I think he should.” I saw her eyes go wide and winced. “Yeah, I think I’m a terrible nanny.”
“I think you’re a terrible employee!”
