His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 303 Swimming Lessons

Logan.

As the gentle hum of the evening pool party enveloped me, my eyes kept darting towards the entrance to the cabins, eagerly waiting for Ella. She had been gone for what felt like an eternity, leaving me with a strange concoction of excitement and nervousness.

There was no denying that she was something special, even if our ‘relationship’ wasn’t what people believed it to be.

“I think she’s softening toward you,” my wolf said. “I could feel it tonight.”

“That means nothing,” I said. “She may be softening, just like they all do. But the fact of the matter is this: she’s out of my league, and from an entirely different world. We’d never last.”

I felt my wolf growl inside of me, but it was true. As much as I was fascinated with Ella, we were just too different. She was a goodie-two- shoes, a princess from the light side. I grew up on the dark side, and no matter how badly I, too, wanted to end all of this Mafia business, I knew that it was unlikely to happen. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

As I took another sip of my drink, I suddenly felt a cold presence slide up next to me. It was a feeling I had come to associate with one person and one person only-Harry.

“So, brother,” he drawled in that irritatingly condescending tone of his. “How are things with the new girlfriend?”

of mockery in his tone, an insinuation that lingered

I replied curtly, determined not to give him

shade darker than mine and always looking for trouble, darted briefly towards the cabins’ entrance. A smug smirk stretched across his face. “Oh, really? Because from where I’m standing, you two don’t seem like you’re

on the glass threatening to shatter it. “She’s my fated mate,” I bit out. “You’ve

voice dripping with sarcasm. “But don’t flatter yourself thinking. you’ve got everyone fooled with this charade of yours. I can see

had our differences,

I snapped, my face darkening. Harry leaned closer, his breath cold against my ear. “Maybe you

of the party. I stood there, reeling from the confrontation. It was never easy with Harry. He always had a way of getting under

uneasy feeling that had settled in my stomach. I knew Harry thrived on seeing others uncomfortable, and I refused to let him have that satisfaction. I decided to focus on the reason I was

emerge. My impatience was a clear indication of how much she’d already come to mean to me, even in the short time we had known each other. And while our relationship might have

or anyone else believed

finally appeared, the sight of her took my breath away. The lingering tension from my conversation with Harry melted away. She looked unsure, almost vulnerable, wrapped

single movement of her hand,

the way Ella stood there, draped in moonlight, her bikini barely there. It was, in all honesty, a bit much for my self-control, and I felt a rush of heat course through

around nervously. “It’s

urging me to close the gap between

I couldn’t let her or anyone else see the

pool before she or anyone else could have a chance to see my

the air, effectively drawing the attention away from my little…

noticed Ella seated at the pool’s edge, her feet skimming the surface of the water. I swam over,

looked away, biting her lip. “I’m… not a great swimmer.

asked teasingly, cocking my head to the side. Ella’s face