His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 279 Disrespect

Ella

The office hummed with the usual activity, but as I sat at my desk, the files for the new case spread out in front of me, my mind kept drifting to Sarah’s words. They clung to me like a shadow, her insinuations and her accusations haunting me.

I tried to focus on the documents in front of me, the complicated legal jargon and the details of the new case with Logan. But my hands trembled slightly no matter how hard I tried to steady them, and I couldn’t shake the fear that had settled itself in the pit of my stomach.

What if Sarah was right? What if I was trapped? A pawn in a game that I didn’t fully understand? A game that I could never understand?

“Ella,” a voice said, snapping me out of my thoughts, and I looked up to find Mr. Henderson standing over my desk. “Are you okay? You look distracted.”

I forced a smile, willing myself to push Sarah’s words aside. “I’m fine,” I lied. “Just a lot on my mind.”

He frowned, his eyes searching my face from behind his wire-rimmed glasses. He still wore the fancy Rolex on his wrist. “Well, I hope that what’s on your mind is your case, and not trivial matters,” he said. “This new case with Mr. Barrett is of the utmost importance. I need you to be focused. Understand?”

Mr. Henderson,” I assured him, hoping that my face didn’t betray the

satisfied, and moved on, leaving

I found my mind still straying to Logan’s words, his actions, the way he conducted himself. Everything that he ever said

help me with my career, or was there something more to it? Did he really plan on ‘letting

myself. I was letting Sarah’s words get to me, letting them plant seeds of doubt in

like that. He was different. He had been kind to me, respectful, even. But there was a nagging voice in the back of my head that kept

found myself glancing at the clock, counting down the hours until

packed up my things at the end of the day, I had a new resolve within me: I needed to figure out a way to make sure that this… this

had to protect myself somehow. When I finally stepped out into the cool evening air, my heart skipped a beat. There, waiting outside, were the same sleek black cars that I had become all too familiar with, and standing beside them was Logan with

as

here? I live within walking distance. You don’t need to be picking me up

twinkling with amusement. “It’s a dangerous city,

me. “By disrespecting my wishes? Is this how it’s going to be all throughout this year? I don’t want this to be another case where the woman

smile vanished, his eyes widening in confusion. “What are you talking about, Ella? Trapped? Abused? What’s

realizing that I had spoken without thinking, my fear and anxiety spilling out in a rush of words. But it

it true?” I asked, my voice trembling. “What they say about the Mafia and the women who get involved with them?

true, to an extent. But not all men are like that, Ella. Just some of them.” “But how do I know that you’re not like

Ella,” he said, his voice filled with pain. “I would never do anything like that

dark cloud, hanging over me, obscuring everything else. It was only made worse by what

to spill out

with compassion. “That was a