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I knew that I wasn’t just thinking about him hiring someone else, either. Last night, he’d started everything and then had the nerve to stop it, almost just as quick. Ezra had done what he wanted to do, but when I gave in, he gained a conscience and remembered his rules, not caring how it would affect me or how I felt.
Maybe I’d been wrong about him all along. Perhaps, he was a selfish man that only cared about himself. Despite the fact that I lived with him, I was realizing that I would be stupid to think that I knew him, well. After all, I only spent at max twelve hours with him a week. I didn’t know who this man really was, and it was about time I admitted that.
As I walked downstairs, I was incredibly frustrated, upset, and angry all in one. I was already preparing what I was going to say to Ezra. If I was fired anyways, then it meant that my words couldn’t do me any damage. And I wasn’t going to go out without a fight. I doubted he’d ever been scolded before, but he had a real tongue lashing coming his way if he thought that this was okay.
“Look, whatever, Ezra told you or promised you,” I snapped when I walked into the kitchen only for my words to be cut off when I realized. My lips opened, and I covered my mouth with my hands. I should have gone with the first thought I’d had, initially. If I wasn’t going to get fired before, then there was no question about it now.
There was no other woman, no other nanny. Instead it was Ezra, standing at the stove with Paige, as they cooked what looked to be eggs. There were plates on the counter piled with sausage and bacon and pancakes. And everything looked so good and smelled even better. My mouth was watering.
My eyes moved from the plate of food to the two people again, and I noticed Ezra was staring at me with a hard look in his eye. Having lived with him this long, I knew when he was upset. And right now, he was absolutely furious at me. Why? I tried to think back to what I could have done to provoke him.
“What were you saying?” Ezra asked me, and his eyebrows were narrowed while he looked at me. I didn’t think that I had ever seen him so tense, which was hard to believe, considering some of the things that I’d gone through.
“I’m sorry?”
“When you came downstairs,” he reminded me. “What were you saying?”
I swallowed. I had been about to yell at whoever Ezra had hired, and that was obviously something that I couldn’t do now. Obviously, he’d realized where my thoughts had been leading, and he hadn’t liked it. But repeating it would definitely result in me getting fired, a place that I didn’t want to be.
“Nothing,” I answered quickly.
“You sure?” He wanted me to get in trouble.
“Yes.” I wanted to change the subject. “Everything smells really good. Good morning, by the way.”
“Hi, Quinn,” Paige greeted with a huge smile on her face. I was so addicted to her, and her happiness was one of the most infectious things I had ever come across. She was basically bouncing while she was speaking to me. “And good morning!”
“Are you helping your dad make breakfast?” I asked her.
Paige frowned. “No,” she answered quickly. “Daddy’s helping me! I’m doing most of the work!” she exclaimed, and I couldn’t help but laugh. Paige could be quite dramatic when she wanted to be.
“Is that so?” I smiled at her.
She nodded. “Yep!”
“Don’t forget about the eggs, Paige.” Her dad’s words were rough, and I couldn’t help but to think he just wanted to end the conversation that we’d been having. I found myself beginning to get upset with this attitude that he was giving me, but I knew that there wasn’t anything that I could say about it.
“I don’t mind cooking breakfast.” I leaned against the counter. “Why are you guys cooking?” My question was directed at Ezra, but I had a feeling it was going to be answered by Paige, instead.
“We wanted to make you breakfast, in bed.”
“Paige wanted to make you breakfast in bed,” Ezra corrected his daughter’s words.
I wanted to frown, but the fact that just Paige had wanted to do this was still enough to warm my heart. She was so sweet, which was something I should have been used to with her, yet I still wasn’t. Whenever I finally had a child, I wanted for them to be exactly like this little girl. But what were the chances of that happening?
“Would you like any help?” I walked over to where they were making the food, but Paige spun around with her little eyes narrowed at me. She pointed the spoon she held at me.
“You can’t help!”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s for you.”
“Just sit down and wait for the food to be finished,” Ezra snapped at me.
That time I couldn’t stop my eyebrows from furrowing. He was making it exceptionally hard to ignore how furious he was at me, and the worst part was that I didn’t know why he was upset. I couldn’t think of any reason why he’d be so mad at me apart from what we had done, together, last night. But he hadn’t even been that mad at me the night before. It was unreasonable that he would now.
And, quite frankly, I didn’t deserve it. What had happened last night hadn’t just been on me, and him picking on me was the farthest thing from okay. It was annoying, and I was determined not to be put down because he felt bad about what had happened. He had started it, and he was responsible. After all, wasn’t he the employer and I the employee? How was any of this my fault?
