His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 186: Mousetrap

Moana

“Don’t worry, you two,” Kelly said as she turned around in her seat to look at us. There was a sick, twisted grin on her gaunt face. She looked even more skeletal than before, as though she hadn’t eaten or slept in days, maybe even weeks. “I’m going to take you far, far away. And I’ll make sure that Edrick never finds you.”

“K-Kelly?” I whimpered. I tried the car door again, but it was still locked. And it was too late now; the light turned green and Kelly hit the gas, speeding down the mostly empty street.

“Didn’t expect to see me, huh?” she said, laughing almost maniacally as she gripped the steering wheel tightly. Even in the dim light of the car, I could see that her knuckles were as white as a sheet.

Ella, who had caught onto the danger by now, was beginning to panic. I felt her little arms slip around my waist, and when I looked down, she was looking up at me with terror in her eyes. I pulled her close, holding her tightly, and took her head and buried it in my side so she wouldn’t have to see in case Kelly did anything insane.

“Kelly, what is all of this?” I asked, my heart practically pounding out of my chest. “Do you know Olivia? Why are you here?”

a seatbelt as I mentally prepared for Kelly to do something rash like intentionally crash the car. “Yeah,

with what?”

in the way of my relationship with Edrick. Both of you, really. First that little snot-nosed brat,” she gestured over her shoulder at Ella with her thumb, “and then you, with your stupid pregnancy.” Her eyes met mine in the rear view mirror then. They looked hollow and pale, like ghosts of what they once were. Kelly was always a bit unhinged, but now she seemed

Edrick,” I growled. “He

eyes shooting daggers. Her face

“before I come back there and shut you up

that it was best for me to stay quiet, as she seemed so unhinged that I wouldn’t have put it past her to intentionally run the car into a building over

green again, and Kelly hit the gas once more, causing us to lurch in our seats. I heard Ella sob quietly beside

referring to myself as Ella’s mother. In fact, now that I knew that Olivia was indeed either an actress or simply a horrible person who led us right into a trap, I felt more maternal over Ella than ever. But at the same time, I felt like a horrible mother for letting her get into this situation with me, all because of

to finally make Edrick understand that I’m the only one for him. I know that we’re meant

go right now, you can have him,” I begged.

while Edrick is dealing with his grief, that’s when I’ll swoop in. I actually learned a little lesson from you, believe it or not, and that’s that I can lock him down by getting pregnant. I don’t even care if it’s his baby, honestly. If I need to get pregnant before I ever even sleep with him, then so be it. It doesn’t matter whose baby it is, so long as he

of me as

— which you weren’t supposed to, by the way, in case you already didn’t know — my parents have been punishing me. I’m sure you remember how hard it is to be a peasant. I’ve been miserable. Edrick had them cut me off from the money; but once I marry him, it won’t matter anymore. I’ll never need to

back of the car. But there was nothing. Outside the car, the streets of the entry of the Rogue district were lined with hungry Rogues who looked at the car as if it were their next

could shift once the car stopped, but I couldn’t. It was too early, and she was too weak. I was certain that Kelly somehow

straight city streets to dark and ominously twisting alleyways, and soon the city lights were nothing but dots in the distance. Even in the car, I could

out of the car and make a run for it.