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?”

wide eyes as he stuffed more clothes into his suitcase. “Come help me zip this up?” he asked. I nodded slowly and walked over, then pushed down onto the top of the suitcase

going on. Is it because of

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.

eyes were still glowing silver, as though he was on edge. “Just do

unfair I found it to be, it didn’t seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had made up his mind, and there

angry with you,” my wolf said as I painfully made

It still

bedroom door and, just as Edrick said, Selina had 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.

over to see her tugging on Selina’s skirt with tears streaming

replied, sounding quite defeated herself. “But we

continue to pack Ella’s bags and Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on the ground and wailed loudly. Sighing, I rushed into the room and past the exhausted-looking Selina and

me leave!” Ella wailed, sobbing loudly. “I

more; especially because I knew that this was my fault. “Here, love,” I said. I grabbed her stuffed duck off of the dresser

wiped hers away, and then led her to my room with me and let her sit on my bed while I got dressed, so that Selina could pack up her

being forced to leave with no say in the matter. But I, unlike Ella, had a pretty good reason why. It certainly had something to do with my dream and my sleepwalking episode from the night before, but I

that, I was a bit bitter toward

drive to the mountain estate was spent mostly in silence, with only Ella 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

time, the mountain air felt fresh, the view was beautiful, and the trees calmed me. However, this time it just felt like we were ascending into a prison made