Fates' Destiny Read Free Page B

with a ‘Hi’.
    Jason acknowledged her with nothing more than a defiant glint in his dark eyes and a shove of a cookie into his mouth. Ali didn’t acknowledge her at all. Anna put down her crayon, slid out of the chair, and crossed the floor to her.
    “Hi Ms. Reece.” She held her little hand out, her blue eyes reflecting her innocence. “I’m Anna. I’m six and I like ponies, rainbows, and pink. Do you like pink?”
    Destiny squatted down in front of the little angel and accepted her hand. “I do like pink Anna. And you can call me Destiny. I want to be your friend as well as your nanny.”
    Anna’s smile lit up her cherub face. “You’re much prettier than our other nannies. The last one had a big wart on her nose. She looked like a wicked witch. Acted like one too.” She added.
    “Well, thank you Anna. I hope you won’t say I act like a wicked witch after you get to know me.”
    “I don’t think I will.”
    Destiny knew one thing at that moment and that was that she was in love with this child. How could she not be? She was absolutely precious.
    “Jason!” Dela’s snap pulled Destiny’s attention from Anna. She rose and turned to see him once again dig a cookie out of the cookie jar.
    Ok. So Destiny’s original plan to just observe was shot to hell. It seemed action needed to be taken with the young Jason Fates sooner rather than later. She sent Anna back to the table to clear off her coloring and walked to the island.
    With her best smile still intact she said, “Hi Jason.” She wrapped her hands around the whit e jar and slid it off the granite surface. “These will ruin your dinner and Mrs. Brewton has been working hard on it all day.”
    The boy narrowed his eyes at her and she couldn’t help but notice the strong resemblance he had to his father. Then in the most disrespectful way he took a bite of his cookie as if daring her to say something.
    Keeping her calm her smile grew. “I hope it’s good.” Was all she said before she turned and sat the cookie jar on the counter next to Dela. As Dela shot her a smile she remembered something else the young Fates had done and she wasn’t going to let him get away with that either. She turned in search of Anna. She didn’t have to look far. The little girl was right next to her.
    “Anna,” She squatted back down to her level. “ do you guys have special seats at the table?”
    Anna nodded.
    “Can you show me?”
    Anna took her hand and led her to the table. Then she pointed out everyone’s seats. Destiny tried to keep the wickedness from her smile as she thanked the little girl and scanned the area for Jason’s baseball equipment. Dela had propped the bag in a far corner, out of the way.
    Poor Jason. She thought as she eyed the bag. By the time she was done with him he’d never leave his stuff lying around again.
    She turned her attention to Ali who still sat the bar, tapping away on her phone.
    Ok, now how to get her attention?
    She watched her as she finished tapping on the screen, stared for a moment , then smiled and went back to tapping.
    Text messaging. Alright. The light bulb lit up in Destiny’s head. She walked back to Dela.
    “Do you have Ali’s cell number?” She whispered as Dela sliced fresh bread.
    “It’s on the fridge.” She nodded to the refrigerator.
    Destiny pulled her phone from her back pocket as she made her way across the floor. Once she was at the fridge she spotted a list of numbers. Her eyes scanned till she saw Ali’s. She pulled up her text messaging, programmed the number, and typed:
    Hi Ali. My name is Destiny and I’m the new nanny. I would love to have a conversation with you.
    Then she hit send and watched the girl. Within seconds Ali’s brow furrowed. Then her blue eyes shot to Destiny, narrowed, and went back to her phone. After a few taps Destiny’s messaging alert beep went off. She opened the message to see:
    I don’t do conversation!
    Ok.
    She wanted to text her back that if she looked at