Alien Architect Needs a Nanny (Alien Nanny Agency 1)

She nodded, and waited to see if he wanted something else from her. She certainly wasn’t going to let him see how impressed she was by the beautiful room - rooms. But that meant not looking around until he left.

But he didn’t leave.

Instead, he gazed down at her intently. There was a strange fire in his eyes that made her stomach tighten.

She felt pinned, like a butterfly, and she blinked up at him stupidly, willing her body not to respond to his animal heat.

Seconds passed like hours, and then he shook his head as if to clear it, and stalked out of her room.

“You will retrieve the children from archery at the top of the hour,” he said over his shoulder, as if it were an afterthought.

Then he closed the door a little too hard behind him, not even giving her a chance to ask him where archery was.

Well, she wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of running after him and asking for help. She would figure it out on her own.

As his footsteps stomped down the hallway, Emilia looked around at her beautiful new space.

The main room was incredibly warm and welcoming, as if its purpose was to be in inverse proportion to her employer’s coldness. Thick, woolen rugs in light colors covered the polished wood floor under the bed and dresser. A wealth of fluffy blankets and pillows rested on the canopied bed and the divan beside it, so that it looked almost like snow had drifted over them.

She wandered to the back of the room to discover that two of the doors were indeed closets, that flanked the door to her own private bathroom.

The slope of the ceiling meant that the shower enclosure was small, but the enormous clawfoot tub tucked in the eaves looked absolutely luxurious.

The whole space felt like a peaceful sanctuary - a room she might have put together for herself, if she had a gift for interior design and unlimited credits.

Well, he got one thing right, she thought to herself as she looked around the room, even though she was almost one hundred percent positive he had only hired someone else to get it right.

That’s what people like Ra’as Drayven did, after all.