Chapter 115: Fever

Edrick

As I drove Moana home from the hospital, I was too stunned by everything that had happened to even notice that I was holding her leg until we finally pulled up to the curb. I paused for a moment, my eyes searching Moana in the passenger seat as my heart pounded in my chest, before I finally pulled my hand away and got out of the car.

While we took the elevator up to the penthouse, however, I couldn’t help but want to be as close to her as possible. Knowing now that she was my mate, I didn’t want to let her out of sight for even a moment.

“Moana! Daddy!” Ella exclaimed as the elevator doors slid open. She practically leaped up off of the couch and flew to us. Moana, with tears streaming down her cheeks, crouched and pulled Ella into a tight hug. “I was so worried about you,” Ella cried into Moana’s shirt. “I cried and cried all day!”

“It’s okay, love,” Moana said. “I’m okay, and so is your daddy. He’s my hero.”

Ella smiled up at me then. At some point, I would have to tell her the story of how her big, strong dad saved Moana, but for now, I needed to make sure that Moana was okay. Not only that, but I felt my own temperature beginning to rise. I had begun to feel sick from the exhaustion in the hospital room, but somehow managed to hold myself together. Now, however, I felt like death.

And of course, the nanny noticed this when she looked up at me. So did Ella, but Moana quickly sent her away to be with Selina again, who was standing in the doorway with relief washed across her face and tears in her eyes.

“You look like hell,” Moana said, taking me by the arm. “You need to lie down.”

focused on others. I loved that selfless side of her, but at the same

the bathroom. I heard the bathtub start to run, and when she reemerged, she stared intensely at

out of those wet clothes and take a hot bath,” she said, placing

finished coughing. I gestured

right,” she said. “I’ll go change

slowly looked up at me. Even now, covered in dirt and mud, she looked beautiful. I wanted to kiss her so badly… But I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Not yet. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to reveal what

said quietly, taking a step back and averting my gaze

opened her mouth as if to speak, but promptly shut it again and instead nodded. I watched then as she turned on her heel and disappeared into the

knew that she was my mate, I wanted to be as close to her as possible at all times… And I had to admit that I wanted her badly now, more than ever. But I knew that I had to control myself, so while she bathed I went to her room and retrieved her robe and

knew that I needed to listen to her, so I did as she asked. And when I was finished, I stepped back out into my room in my pajamas and saw her sitting on a chair next to the bed. She had a worried look on her face,

stood, leaning against the doorframe as my vision

up and ran to my

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

head, holding my hand over my face as I tried to steady

back, then guided me onto the bed. I felt weak as the room spun around me; why now? When I only wanted to take care of Moana, why did

pull the blankets up around me. I shut my

almost sternly.

stop her, but it was too late. I heard the door open and close. As I laid there with my eyes shut, I felt horribly guilty for making her take care of me at a time like this… But at the same time, there was something endearing about it. To think that this kind, sweet woman was actually my mate brought a bit of a smile to my

it. I had thought that she was human all

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