She's Just the Nanny

Chapter Six

"Mr Cashvian your father sent me to remind you about the charity ball on Friday." Emily said as she entered his office.

"I know about it. I do not need anyone reminding me," He said rather frustrated. He hated how he's father thought of him as a child. He constantly reminded him about anything regarding the company like he did not already know.

Why was the reason he made me CEO of the company?

"You're father also said you should bring a plus one with you." Emily said staring with hopeful eyes. She really hoped Nate would ask her to be his plus one. Nate nodded his head and waited for Emily to leave but she did not go, she was looking at him expectantly. "Is there anything else, Emily?"

"Uh. Ye-. No sir that's all." She said quickly before leaving his office.

Nate wondered to himself on who he should take as his plus one and realized that Emily waited in the office because she wanted him to ask her.

Suddenly Brooke crossed his mind. He did really enjoyed his Saturday night with her. The two of them fell asleep while watching movies. When he found out she was a virgin he couldn't believe his ears. She had never slept with anyone in her life before.

Brooke told him that in hopes to push him but in actual fact it pulled him closer to her. He knew she was different than the others but this actually made her more special.

He picked up his phone and called Lucy. "Good afternoon, Nate. How is work?"

"It's great, thanks. Uh, Lucy I was wondering if you could look after Luke for a while. I want to take Brooke out for a dress lunch time. There is a charity ball on Friday and I want her to be my plus one." Nate knew Luke home already from pre-school so he had to ask Lucy to look after him.

For a second he thought he heard Lucy squeal. "Of course I would Nate."

"Thank you, Lucy. I will call Brooke now to inform her." He ended the call and immediately dialled Brooke's number.

"Good afternoon Sir...I mean Nathaniel." He smiled when she sounded so formal.

"Brooke, I'm picking you up in do a half an hour's time. It is my lunch time, so be ready okay."

"I...who is going to look after Luke?" Dumbfounded, she stumbled over her words. Nate had given up on the thought of her actually being like any other nanny his father ever hired. Whenever he wanted to take them out they never worried about Luke. He could actually not believe he thought she was anything like them.

"Do not worry about that, it is already sorted out, Brooke. Just be ready."

"I don't think I can."

"Brooke I don't think you understand me well. This was not exactly a question. Just do it, okay? See you in a bit." He ended the call before she could say anything else.

He had a feeling she would not have let him off so easily and that is the reason why he ended the call before she could reply. He could only hope she would do it. She was hard-headed, not someone he could just order around.

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Brooked gritted her teeth together. How dare Nathaniel order her like that? He could not just hang up the phone like that without her even giving him an answer. She groaned, he was so infuriating! She sat on her bed, contemplating if she should go or just stay and teach him a lesson to never order her around like that.

After a good few minutes of contemplating, she sighed and got up to get herself ready.

She grabbed a nice floral summer dress. She loved wearing dresses; she wasn't really one for wearing pants. She only wore one when she was at home, alone. She left her hair frizzy as usual and added no make-up.

She went downstairs and saw Luke was sitting at the dining table coloring in. He really looked adorable with his short and messy dirty-blonde hair that was on laying lazily on his head. Lucy came in and smiled at her.

"Well don't you look lovely, Brooke." Lucy smiled warmly at her as she uttered the words. Brooke sent her a smile and shook her head. "Oh no Lucy it's just my normal attire, nothing special."

"Well you do know how to make it look spectacular." Brooke laughed. "You do know how to flatter me Lucy."

They heard the door open. "That must be Nate." Lucy noted.

"Daddy!" Luke said excitedly as he got up from the table and ran to the door. He hugged his father's legs. Brooke smiled at the sight. Nathaniel was really a good father, he really loved little Luke.

"Hey there, little man." He ruffled Luke's already messy hair. "Come look what I drew, Daddy" He pulled Nate to the table and showed him a picture.

"Come see, Brookie." Luke said, calling Brooke as well. She looked at the picture and saw that Luke drew a picture of a man, a little boy and a woman. The boy was holding both the man and woman's hands.

"That's Daddy, me and Brookie." He said proudly, sending them a toothy grin.

Brooke gasped. Her heart instantly warmed at this picture. Nate could not believe his eyes. Luke had grown attached to this woman in a few days time.

Brooke and Nate stared at the picture, both of them silently smiling with a very happy Luke standing between them. Lucy stared at them. She too could not hide her grin. She knew Brooke was going to make a change in this household, both Luke and Nate needed.

Nate suddenly coughed awkwardly.

"Well Luke, you should stay here with Lucy and be a good boy. Brookie and I are going out real quick, okay." Luke smiled and nodded his head. He was way too proud of the picture he drew to even be upset about them leaving. Besides he was very fond of Lucy.

Nate walked to the front door with Brooke on his heels.

"So...where are we going?" Brooke asked once they were in the car.

"I'm taking you to a clothing store. I want to buy you a dress." Brooke gasped. She didn't want him to buy her anything.

"What! No, why would you do that?"

"Well, Friday is a charity ball and my father insist that I bring a plus one so now we are getting you a dress since you are going to be my plus one." Nate said and gave her a bright smile.

"Well yes of course I will be your plus one, since you asked so nicely." Brooke muttered through her teeth. Nate chuckled slightly at her sarcasm.

"Seriously though, I don't think I can be your plus one. Can't you just take one of your rich fan girls?"

"But I want you to be my plus one Brooke."

"Why?" Brooke urged. She could not understand. She told him she was a virgin thinking he would give up but this was definitely not giving up.

"Because I want to, Brooke! Now can you stop asking question and just get yourself a dress?" Brooke raised her eyebrows at him. Here he was again, ordering her around like earlier. This time he was not getting away with it.

"No Nate, I will not go with you. Firstly, you never even asked me if I wanted to go and secondly I told you to give up on me. I don't know why you are doing this but if this your way of trying to get me to sleep with you, I'm not going to do it so stop trying to 'buy me over'. It won't help." When the words left her mouth Nate's whole body became stiff and his jaw tighten. His eyes became dark and Brooke gasped slightly.

I was I being too harsh?

After a few second Nate finally opened his mouth: "Luke will be going with us and since you are actually his nanny you should be there." His tone was one of finality, leaving no room for discussion.

"Okay, fair enough." She said softly. Maybe she should not have said anything?

Brooke mentally shook those thoughts away. He has no right to be mad at her. From day one he told her he wanted nothing from her but to sleep with her. She has reason to think had an agenda by taking her out.

The entire ride was spent in silence. Even though Brooke did not like it she decided to just keep her mouth shut.

They reached a shop called Hope's. It was a shop only the rich went to. Brooke knew that because her mother always went to Hope's when she went out with her lady friends. Brooke never bought dresses here, not that her family could not afford it but simply because she did not want to go.

"I can't take a dress here." Brooke said as they got out of the car. Nate ignored her and walked in the shop. Brooke rolled her eyes at his childish behavior as she followed him inside.

The boutique assistant came up to them with a flirty smile plastered on her lips. Her name tag showed her name was Clarisse. "Can I help you with anything?" She asked them.

"We're looking for a dress for her, please." Nate said smiling at Clarisse. Her smile faltered and she stared at Brooke looking at her with disgust in her eyes. "Oh, you. Well follow me and I'll show some dresses that will fit your...uh...little figure." Clarisse said as she moved her perfectly manicured finger up and down pointing at Brooke's figure. Brooke really did not want be here but she already pissed Nate off as it is so she decided not to say anything.

Brooke stared at the all the different dresses, it was really beautiful.

"Why don't you start fitting on this dress and I'll show him some other dresses." Clarisse said, grabbing a random dress and giving it to Brooke. She had a flirty smile on her face as she and Nate stared at each other.

"There is no need. I will grab a few dresses and you two take your time, okay." Brooke said before grabbing four dresses.

After she was done fitting on the four dresses, she return them she because not a single one was her style. When she came out of the fitting room she saw no sign of Nate or Clarisse and she rolled her eyes. What was the use Nate brought her or more like forced her to come to the shop and he is not even here?

Brooke decided to check the other boutiques out and buy herself a dress with her own money since she had enough to spoil herself. She did not have time to wait for Nate.

She went next door and looked around for a few seconds and saw no dress that caught her eyes. She moved to the next one and saw none as well.

The next boutique was called Lulus and Brooke inhaled a sharp breath when she saw a soft pink dress through the window. Immediately she knew that, that was the dress and she had to have it. The dress was a silky dress with silver beads across the breast part. It was long. It was really simple yet elegant and screamed her name. She immediately went in and bought it.

After she was done she went back to Hope's to look for Nate so they could just go home.

She reached Hope's and saw a furious looking Nate. He was sitting on one of the chairs in the shop. His hair was messy and there was lipstick smashes on his neck. "Where were you?"

"I bought myself a dress, since you were...occupied." Brooke said. "And now that you are done and I'm also done we can go home, right? Because last I remembered my job is not to go shopping with my boss but to look after his child." Brooke gave him a sickly sweet smile.

Nate did not know what to say. Brooke just knew how to work on his last nerves. Without saying anything he got up to go but then Brooke suddenly stopped him.

"Wait before you go you have a little something here." She licked her finger and swiped it over his neck to wipe the lipstick off, Brooke felt him stiffened at the contact. Brooke made his hair right with her hand and left to go to the car.

Nate shivered slightly. What is this woman doing to me?

He composed himself before going to the car himself. He did kind of felt bad for ditching Brooke but he had to, she was making him feel things only Sasha once made him felt and look where it left him, without a wife and Luke without a mother. He just can't go through that kind of heartbreak again and that is why he refused to get close to any woman. He did not want Luke to get attached to a woman only to have them mess up and leave.

He saw Brooke with a bag in her hands and he knew it was a dress. He wondered what dress it was. He really felt bad since he promised he would buy her dress and he only ended up ditching her. At first he thought she deserved it because of what she told him in the car. But then he realized she had a right to think that way. He knew the only reason he treated her that way was because she hit a nerve.

"Look Brooke, I'm really sorry I ditched you." Nate said once he got in the car. Brooke turned to him, giving him a genuine smile.

"Nate, you really do not have to apologize to me, what you do is none of my business." Nate frowned a bit at that, he was really not used to women not caring what he does. Not even Sasha was this way.

"I just think you deserve an apology since I was the one who offered to buy you a dress."

"I appreciate the apology but it's not needed. Besides look," She lifted up the bag with her dress, "I managed to get a dress myself, one that I really like." Brooke smiled at him. Nate stared at her bit, longer than he intended to. Her smile was so beautiful and he could not find himself looking away. Nate realized he was driving and he coughed awkwardly before looking away.

"Can I see the dress?"

"Nope, I'm sorry. You will just have to wait for Friday. It's nothing special; it's a real simple dress."

"I look forward to seeing you in it." Nate said with a smile. "Of course you do." Brooke said with an eye roll.

They reached the house and it was really quiet. Lucy probably put Luke to bed to take nap. She went upstairs to check and make sure and found him sound asleep on his bed, looking as adorable always.

"I'm going back to the office I will see you in a few hours." Nate said before leaving for work. Brooke knew she had nothing to do so she decided to see how the gardener, Tyler was doing. She saw him a few days ago. She went outside and saw him sitting on the bench just staring and looking deep in thought. She approached him and lightly touched his shoulder since he hadn't notice her. Tyler looked up at her and smiled sadly at her.

"Hey, Tyler. How are you doing?"

"Brooke. It's nice to see you again. I'm doing okay, I guess. I mean I haven't even heard from Marie-Jose, she's been gone for more than 5 months. What if she found some perfect Mexican boy her father approved off and she decided to stay with him. What if she forgot about me?" Tyler started rambling.

"Tyler, maybe there is another reason. Marie-Jose sounds like a lovely woman, I'm sure she wouldn't just drop you like that. I think you best you not jump to conclusions, you will drive yourself crazy." Tyler smiled slightly.

"I guess you are right, maybe her father is holding her there because she doesn't want anyone else but me." Brooke laughed. "Yes I think that is the reason."

She and Tyler talked for hours until she saw Luke ran outside looking for her she decided to go back and inside and take care of Luke.