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“I’m sorry?” she says.
“No. Don’t be,” I say, my voice low. “Go wake up Anna and make sure your sister stays out of trouble.”
“You’re not having breakfast?” Joyce asks, confused.
I just shake my head. I leave, remembering only in the car that I left without even kissing my daughter goodbye. I’ll call her after school.
Since I didn’t eat at home, I stopped to grab some food before going to the office. All the while I just wonder why the hell Joyce kissed me.
As my father used to say, ‘women are an unsolvable mystery’.
Damn right.
Chapter Seven
JOYCE
It’sbeenafewweeks since that kiss and even though I act like it never happened, I still think about it all the time.
I wish I could talk to Jane about it, but she is the absolute last person I can confide in.
I shake my head to clear my thoughts when I see her pull up outside my apartment.
I’m wearing a pastel pink blouse with a ruffle trim and high-waisted, slightly distressed skinny jeans. I paired them with white low-top sneakers with metallic accents that Jane gave me herself for my birthday last year.
I show them off to her as I enter her car, and she honks and whistles just to mess with me. I giggle, taking a seat in the passenger side and strap on my seatbelt.
“You look good, girl!” she pokes me in the ribs. “You’ll be the queen of all nannies when you go out to the park like that!”
“The park inside the Lake Villas, or the one half an hour away?” I ask, checking on my makeup in the mirror.
“The park inside, of course!” Jane says, and sarcastically continues, “Who needs to leave the security of the precious gates?”
I cross my arms and look at her sideways. “That’s why you live in the city?”
“Ugh, those gates are a prison!” she says, huffing. “You’ll see after a while. I spent enough time there growing up.”
I shrug. “I think it’s a safe life. Good for children.”
Now she’s the one who looks at me sideways. “You only say that because you lived in the ‘burbs.”
“I lived in an inner-city neighborhood with a curfew!” I say, mid laughter. “I actually still live there!”
Jane just shakes her head and rolls her eyes.
“Isn’t Anna the best?” Jane asks, taking a left in the intersection.
“Oh, God, I love her,” I say. “And she adores her dad!”
I see Jane smiling, genuine and full hearted. “They’re a great team. Just wish he had more time to spend with her.”
I nod, understanding. I’m new to this life. I mean, I’ve been a nanny before, but not for a billionaire’s daughter. It seems that the richer the parents, the less available they are to their children.
“What happened to Anna’s mom, Jane?” I ask, carefully.
“Logan hasn’t said anything about it?” she asks, giving me a sideways look.
“No,” I say, “Not even Anna talks about her.”
