Nanny to a Guy

By Brynn Paulin

I have two problems… And Luca DeMilo is both of them.

I've been a nanny for seven years, and in all that time, I've only worked for two-parent families or single moms. Not…single dads. But when I'm get a new assignment—the only one available right now—it's for a guy.

And as it turns out, not just any guy. Nope. It's Luca freaking DeMilo, the boy I've had a crush on since…oh…forever. Only he's no boy anymore. And I'm pretty sure he never noticed me way back when.

I should have said no. Should have, but I didn't.

Monday morning, I'm on his doorstep and praying he's aged poorly.

Nope. No such luck. One look into his intense blue eyes, and I swoon. Internally, of course. I'm a professional, and I need this job as the new nanny for his little squid. Squid is his term, not mine. His sweet little girl is as adorable as he's gorgeous, though she seems to have as many arms as the afore mentioned beast. My heart melts the second I meet her.

So… Yeah. There was no way "no" is anywhere in my vocabulary. Be his daughter's nanny? Sign. Me. Up.

I just have to keep my not-so-little crush as a not-so-little secret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Supernova Indie Publishing Services LLC
• Release date: Nov 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781623444440

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Nanny to a Guy

By Brynn Paulin

Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

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Nanny to a Guy

by

Brynn Paulin

I have two problems… And Luca DeMilo is both of them.

I’ve been a nanny for seven years, and in all that time, I’ve only worked for two-parent families or single moms. Not…single dads. But when I’m get a new assignment—the only one available right now—it’s for a guy.

And as it turns out, not just any guy. Nope. It’s Luca freaking DeMilo, the boy I’ve had a crush on since…oh…forever. Only he’s no boy anymore. And I’m pretty sure he never noticed me way back when.

I should have said no. Should have, but I didn't.

Monday morning, I’m on his doorstep and praying he’s aged poorly.

Nope. No such luck. One look into his intense blue eyes, and I swoon. Internally, of course. I’m a professional, and I need this job as the new nanny for his little squid. Squid is his term, not mine. His sweet little girl is as adorable as he’s gorgeous, though she seems to have as many arms as the afore mentioned beast. My heart melts the second I meet her.

So… Yeah. There was no way no is anywhere in my vocabulary. Be his daughter’s nanny? Sign. Me. Up.

I just have to keep my not-so-little crush as a not-so-little secret.

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© 2023, Brynn Paulin

Nanny to a Guy

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Electronic Format ISBN: 978-1-62344-444-0

Published by: Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

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One

Emerson

I’m sorry, Emerson. It’s the only assignment we have at the moment.

I eyed Ardith, my boss and the head of the employment agency I’d been with for the past seven years. Yes, employment agency. The place specialized in home help, house cleaners and nannies. That was me, Emerson Crane, nanny extraordinaire.

Nanny unemployed at the moment, too. When the school year ended two weeks ago, the family I had been with for the past few years had finished packing and made the trek across the country to Texas, the mom and two kids reuniting with the dad who’d started his new job there a month ago.

I could have gone with them, but I didn’t want to leave Grand Rapids, where I’d grown up and where most of my friends and family still lived.

But, Ardith… A single dad who wants a live-in nanny? I’m sure he’s expecting more of a grandmotherly type.

She smiled, her crimson lips curling into an amused bow. Not many people could pull off that color, but Ardith rocked it. And it kind of matched her shoulder-length hair that was the same deep-crimson of my favorite autumn leaves. With her green eyes rimmed with just the perfect amount of kohl, she was never anything less than stunning.

Unlike me. My mousy brown hair was in a braid, bun or ponytail ninety-five percent of the time. My nondescript brown eyes were lined with the barest of mascara. And my plain-Jane looks, well, they were forgettable. My genes hadn’t even supplied me with height, and occasionally, I got mistaken for a middle-schooler. That could be a problem during school pick-up, though any confusion usually cleared after a week or so. By then, the staff recognized me.

But that was in the past, and it looked like I wouldn’t be doing middle-school carpool for a while. If I even got this job, since the parent, this guy, had to agree I’d be a good fit. So why was I trying to talk myself out of the position? At the rate I was going, I’d end up with a secretarial job—with an another agency since Care-Co didn’t hire for that.

You’re one of our best, and he’ll be happy with whoever he gets. It’s my understanding he’s a little…frazzled. The mother is out of the picture. His own mom helped him for a bit, but she can’t travel with him.

And that was the other thing. Not only did he need a full-time live-in nanny, but he owned his own business and would be traveling the country for various commitments over the next few months, commitments that would keep him away from Grand Rapids for extended periods of time. Not wanting to be away from his baby that long, he needed the nanny—likely me if he agreed to the placement—to travel with him.

Will she be taking over after the trip? Or trips. Since it would involve city-jumping, what would it be called?

That’s the plan.

I nodded, thinking, even though I already knew I would