His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 36: Afterparty
Moana

I felt a hand on my arm in the crowd and turned around, expecting to see Ethan or one of his friends standing there. But it wasn’t any of them.

It was Edrick. Without speaking, he kept his grip firmly on my arm and pulled me away from the crowd, into a private room.

“What are you doing here?” he asked, although I was certain that he had already seen me with Ethan and his friends. “I thought you were sick and had to go to urgent care.” I felt my heart rate quicken. “I…”

Before I could answer, he raised his hand to indicate for me to stop speaking and then rubbed the bridge of his nose exasperatedly. “I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that you’re making a mistake by hanging around Ethan. And now you lie about your health so you can sneak out and galavant all over town with him?”

“I wouldn’t feel it necessary to lie and sneak if it wasn’t for the fact that you seem to have boundless enmity for your own brother.”

Edrick’s face darkened. “He is not my brother,” he snarled. “Besides… Do you have some fantasy of being with him? Because I’ll be the first to tell you that he would never be interested in someone like you.”

my chest and took a step back, but Edrick closed the distance again by taking a

look at you,” Edrick said, gesturing toward my appearance. “You’re just an ordinary human nanny. And you’re pretty enough, sure, but you don’t do yourself any favors by dressing so plainly and homely. Don’t I pay you enough to create a nice

hot at Edrick’s words. I glanced down at my plain black dress, thinking about how

not interested in someone with a social status as low

begin to well up in my eyes, but I wasn’t about to let Edrick make me cry

reaching for the doorknob, “but you and I only have an employer-employee relationship. Nothing more, nothing less. And if I wanted to

to the restroom as I had originally intended, he stormed out after me, brushing past me. I watched over the crowd as he stormed straight out of

set my purse down on the counter, sighing deeply as I tried to calm my nerves — but as soon as I looked up at my reflection in the mirror, the tears that were welled up in my eyes began to spill over, smudging

I had thought that I had begun to earn a bit of respect from him. I thought back to the day we went to the orphanage, and how he had opened up to the children, and even me. Was I correct

late; the woman who had come through the door was Ethan’s friend, Haley, and she noticed me crying immediately. She came over to me with a concerned look on her face and pulled a

to make sure you didn’t get lost,” she said as she wiped the black tears away. “I didn’t expect to find you crying

head vehemently. “Not at all,” I

you need to talk about

my head. “No.

my cheeks. “I’ll meet you out there in a minute,” I said, to which she nodded again and quietly

walked back out to the

alright?” he

causing him to furrow his brow. “What is

“He’s furious with me for coming to see you.