His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 158: Plein Air Painting

Edrick

As soon as I saw the hurt expression on Moana’s face, I knew that I messed up by taking her tooth. Obviously I still couldn’t tell her about the Golden Wolf, but I realized that maybe I should have asked if I could take her tooth ahead of time; I could have simply told her that I wanted to take it to have some tests done, or anything to not make her panic. She clearly had been frantically searching for the tooth when I came home, and I instantly felt like a jerk for making her feel that way.

Even though Moana said that it was okay, and simply told me not to do that again, she was distant for the next couple of days. I noticed that she was being much more quiet than usual, and whenever she came to bed at night she would simply lay down and turn away from me. Maybe a combination of taking the tooth, getting upset with her over what happened with her ex-boyfriend, and not being there when she woke up for two days in a row made her feel upset.

So, I decided to make it up to her.

One morning, Moana was busy giving Ella a bath when I found Selina in the kitchen preparing breakfast.

“Selina,” I said, walking into the kitchen and pouring myself a cup of coffee, “can you help me with something?”

salad she was mixing and furrowed her brow. “What

moment. It was a bit embarrassing to admit that I needed to find a nice way to make

want to make it up

moment, then shrugged and returned to stirring the bowl of fruit salad. “She doesn’t complain much,” she replied. “But she has been a little

slowly, considering what Selina had said. Maybe I needed to find something that Moana, Ella, and I could do as a family. Summer would be ending soon, and it wouldn’t be long after that before winter came

front to back, just as I always did every morning. I rarely paid any attention to the advertisements, however. At least, that was until something suddenly

painting landscape scenes out in the fresh air. And, it was family friendly. I remembered that Moana had brought her plein air easel to paint at the mountain estate, but that she had never been able to get any painting done due to the fact that we had to leave so

that we painted at the orphanage. Even though Moana’s lesson that day was geared toward children, I had still had a lot of fun that day. It made me want to try painting some more, and so I decided to cut the newspaper advertisement out and slip it into my pocket

Ella said as she sat down at the table, “do you have

nodded. “I

an exasperated, almost theatrical sigh. Meanwhile, Moana poured syrup onto Ella’s pancake and tucked a napkin into the front of Ella’s shirt without a word before sitting down next to her. The entire time, Moana didn’t so much as

could have some playtime,” Ella finally said. “Playtime outside of the house.

everyone, but I decided not to say anything

was set for the day after the next, so I decided to give a little hint to get Ella excited as

day off of work the day after tomorrow,” I said with a smile. “Then, maybe all three of us can go out and

gasped. “Really?” she squealed

up at me with wide, sparkling eyes; that was all the confirmation I needed. I knew that this art