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?”

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

“please tell me what’s going on. Is it because of last night? I’ll be

not that,” he said. “It’s

sink even further. “But,

at me. His gaze wasn’t mean, but it was stern and his eyes were still glowing silver, as though he was on edge. “Just do it, Moana,” he demanded. “Selina already packed your bags. Just get

didn’t seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had made up his mind, and there was no way to get around it this time; whatever went through

said as I painfully made my

It

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. Everything except my valuables and sentimental

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

defeated herself. “But we have

away so she could continue to pack Ella’s bags and Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on the ground and wailed loudly. Sighing, I rushed into

wailed, sobbing loudly.

felt my heart break just a little bit more; especially because I knew that this was my fault. “Here, love,” I said. I

and then led her to my room with

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 knew that I wouldn’t get any specifics out

I was a

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 and stare

fresh, the view was beautiful, and the trees calmed me. However, this time it just