His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 169: A Visitor

Moana

A few more days passed by after that. By the end of our first week of school, it seemed as though Ella and I both had settled in quite well. Ella was making loads of friends and loved her teachers, and I also enjoyed teaching. It finally felt as though I was living my childhood dream of being an art teacher, although I did find it difficult to connect with the other teachers. They weren’t unkind and did exchange pleasantries with me each day, but I could tell that they didn’t want to associate with me too much since they still thought that I was human. Maybe over time they would get to know me a bit more and would get over some of their biases. However, right now I couldn’t help but wish that my wolf would just emerge already so that I would stop having to deal with this sort of attitude from people. Unfortunately, however, it didn’t seem like Mina was getting a whole lot stronger. She seemed to be stagnating a bit at her current level of strength.

“It’s probably the baby,” she said when I asked her about it one morning. “I think when you have the baby, I’ll be able to get stronger. For now, your body is focusing on keeping you both healthy for the pregnancy.”

It made sense, but it didn’t necessarily make me feel any better about the situation.

For now, because no one really wanted to talk to me too much, I spent the majority of my lunch breaks eating and drawing in my classroom. Normally it was fine and I quite enjoyed the down time, but on this particular Friday I quickly came to the realization that I should have gone to the faculty lounge when I heard a knock on my door.

I looked up, my cheeks stuffed with my sandwich, and quickly covered my mouth with my hand when I saw the headmistress standing there.

she said. “But you have

waved her in. “Thank you, Headmistress Hawkins,” I said with a smile. I half expected

my smile faded when I saw who it really

of a sheepish smile. He was holding a vase of flowers in his hand as he

Kelly had worked together that night to make Edrick kick me out. I remembered the evil look in his eye when I saw Edrick confronting him, and how his demeanor suddenly shifted theatrically when he noticed me standing there. It wasn’t just that, but seeing him so suddenly instantly reminded me of my conversation at the orphanage with “Olivia”, who I was still unsure about. If it was possible that she

him out. Maybe I was too nice; or maybe I was afraid. If he worked with Kelly before, then

My voice faded away. What was I supposed to say to him? To what do I owe the pleasure? Nice to see you? What the hell are you doing in my

words, but Ethan didn’t seem to notice. Instead, he simply held up the

peace offering,” he said, his cheeks turning a little red with embarrassment. “I know I hurt your feelings that night at the party. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it and I’ve realized that I overstepped a lot of boundaries, and that wasn’t right. But

trust him, but I was willing to hear him out. Maybe he would confess to working with Kelly. He did seem as though

a stiff smile, I walked around my desk and took the flowers from him. They came in an expensive-looking crystal vase, and the flowers were a lovely array of sunflowers, baby’s breath, and chamomile. I set the

“Thank you,” I said.

of an awkward silence as we stared at each other like two cautious felines, before

teacher now, huh?” he