His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Family Ties
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“Ahem.”

Ethan and I jerked our heads up from the portfolio of his childhood drawings, our train of conversation now broken, to see none other than Edrick standing in the doorway — and he didn’t look happy.

“Oh, hello,” I said, feeling a bit nervous under the billionaire’s strangely disapproving stare. “Ethan was just showing me some of his work.”

Without a word, Edrick slowly walked into the studio. His shoes clicked loudly on the concrete floor, echoing through the room’s tall ceilings. For several long moments, the Alpha billionaire slowly circled the studio and looked at all of the art with his hands in his pants pockets. I noticed that he wasn’t looking around with wonder, like I had when Ethan first turned on the light, but rather with an almost disgusted look on his face. He almost seemed repulsed by the art, which was surprising considering the fact that he had plenty of expensive artwork hanging in both his mansion in the mountains and his city penthouse.

Finally, Edrick turned to face me and slowly walked up to where Ethan and I stood, stopping in front of me. He hardly paid any mind to Ethan, as though his brother wasn’t even there.

“Ella is looking for you,” he said to me in a deep, irritated voice. “You should be with her.”

“I’m sorry,” I replied, feeling even more nervous as the Alpha billionaire towered over me, looking down at me with an aggravated look on his handsome face. “I thought she was with her grandmother.”

“She is,” Edrick said. His gaze finally slid over to Ethan. There was something dark about the way he looked at his own brother, as if he didn’t trust him. Meanwhile, Ethan only looked back at Edrick with an almost amused sparkle in his eyes, as if he had been experiencing this behavior from his brother for a long time already.

“Hello to you too, big brother,” Ethan said.

discomfort, and it involuntarily made me take a step backwards. “I’ll go back to Ella, now,” I said, heading nervously

glanced over

with you,”

Edrick closed the door behind us, and the last thing I saw before the door closed was Ethan’s face. He was smiling,

being a bit rough with me and his hard grip burned my bare arm, so I

feeling my hands curl into fists at my sides. “I don’t appreciate you touching

few moments, then back up at me.

“He’s your brother–”

is not

now realizing, was made of patterned glass,

us said anything else, he turned on his heel

you to leave my

up with Edrick. We briskly descended the stairs

I felt my face flush hot as I crossed the

her hand out for Edrick. Her smiling eyes flickered over

indifferent stare before pushing himself up out of his chair and beckoning for Edrick

“Grandma gave me a present.” On Ella’s wrist was a delicate silver bracelet with a small charm that had the

very pretty,” I

a charm bracelet,” Verona chimed in. “As Ella gets older, she can

could answer, Kelly ambled over to us from where she stood at a table nearby, champagne glass in hand. “Verona loves to spoil Ella,” she said. Her face was the perfect picture of sweetness, but I could sense a hint of what almost sounded

my only granddaughter, after all,” Verona replied, squeezing Ella’s shoulders. “It’s my job to spoil

her mouth to speak, but Edrick suddenly returned. He had a sour look on

wrong, Eddy?” Kelly asked, c*****g her head and twirling a

didn’t want to answer, but also partially because the orchestra began to play again. I immediately recognized the song as one of my favorite classical pieces: Vivaldi’s Winter. Verona, seeing the

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