His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 225: Pulling the Rug

Moana

I woke up after a night of dreamless sleep to the sound of someone rushing around the room. When I cracked open my eyes, I saw Edrick pacing back and forth. He had a pile of shirts in his hand, and I watched in a state of shock as he walked over to a suitcase and quickly shoved the shirts inside.

“What are you doing?” I asked, sitting up.

Edrick didn’t even look up at me. “We have to go,” was all he said.

My eyes widened. “Go where?”

“We’re going back to the mountain estate for real this time.”

As Edrick spoke, I felt my heart sink. My limbs still felt too heavy from the sleeping meds to move quickly, and as I threw the covers off and swung my limp legs over the edge of the bed, it felt as though I was moving through a thick mud.

“Why?” I asked. “You didn’t mention that we would be leaving before. Was it because of last night?”

this up?” he asked. I nodded slowly and walked over, then pushed down onto the top of

going on. Is it because of last night? I’ll be okay, I promise. We don’t

shook his head and scurried over to the bathroom, where he began tossing toiletries into a bag. “It’s not that,” he said.

felt my heart sink even further.

as though he was on edge. “Just do it, Moana,” he demanded. “Selina already packed your bags. Just

found it to be, it didn’t seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had

I painfully made my way to my bedroom. “He’s

It still

already packed my things. Only a single outfit was left out for me on the bed, and a few toiletries so I could get ready for the day. Other than that, my other necessities were all packed up. Everything except my

walked over to see her tugging on Selina’s skirt with tears streaming down her cheeks. “I don’t

know,” Selina replied, sounding quite defeated herself. “But we have to. It won’t

Ella’s bags and Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on

me leave!” Ella wailed, sobbing loudly. “I don’t

because I knew that this was my fault. “Here, love,” I said. I grabbed her stuffed duck off of the dresser and put it in her hands, and that seemed to calm her down a bit. “We’ll be together,

her to my room with me and let her sit on my bed while I got dressed, so that

with no say in the matter. But I, unlike Ella, had a pretty good reason why. It

for that, I was

speaking up on occasion to whine about how she wanted to go home or how she needed to go potty. Edrick just drove with his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, and I could only clench my jaw

a lovely vacation. That time, the mountain air felt fresh, the view was beautiful, and