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

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

faded when I saw

was holding a vase of flowers in his hand as he walked into my

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

maybe I was afraid. If he worked with

said, standing from my desk so abruptly I almost knocked my chair over. “Um…” My voice faded away. What was I supposed to say to him? To what do I owe the pleasure? Nice to see you?

instantly cringed at my choice of words, but Ethan didn’t seem to

of time thinking about it and I’ve realized that I overstepped a lot of boundaries, and that wasn’t right. But I’d like to make it up to

was willing to hear him out. Maybe he would confess to working with Kelly. He

the flowers were a lovely array of sunflowers, baby’s breath, and chamomile. I set the vase down on my desk, feeling Ethan’s eyes on me the entire time, and turned back to

“Thank you,” I said.

as we stared at each other like two

an art teacher now, huh?”