His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 346 Homeward Bound

Ella

A charged silence fell between us as we finally reached the safety of the car. Somehow, we had managed to make our way out of the party with little trouble, although Leonard had asked questions; a quick “My stomach hurts” on my part, however, was enough to make the man leave us be.

Logan slid behind the wheel as I climbed into the passenger seat. As the engine hummed to life, he turned to face me, his deep blue eyes reflecting the twilight.

“Ella,” he began, his tone light yet hesitant, “speaking of the ‘engagement party’…”

I sighed, passing a hand over my weary face. “Now? Really? We need to talk about this now?”

Logan shrugged as he began pulling away from the curb. “We’ll have to talk about it sooner rather than later. No offense, but it was your idea.”

I cringed at the thought. It was my idea, technically. Logan had offered to take the fall, to avoid this ‘engagement party’. But I had decided in the moment to be the one to take the fall instead, to agree to let my parents meet Leonard and this whole dark family. But truthfully, I never planned on actually going through with it at first. Now, though, I wasn’t so sure what to do. I needed to think.

“Later,” I muttered as I stared out the window. “Not now.”

“Fine,” Logan responded. “But Ella, I was thinking… We should take a trip to your home city first. Tell them in person. We’ve got the time right now in between cases, and-”

My eyes widened in shock, and I quickly cut him off. “No! That’s a horrible idea!”

Logan paused for a moment before answering. “What’s the big problem?” he asked. “Don’t want your family to meet me?”

head. “It’s… It’s not that,” I said, which was

light turned red. Logan guided the car to a stop, then turned to face me while we waited. He

We’ll get a hotel room, play tourists. You can show me all the places you loved as a

of our encounter in the old playroom. “No. I can’t do that. I won’t do that. And I

Logan said, sounding somewhat disappointed. “We’ll get separate hotel rooms then. Separate hotels,

would make me most comfortable would be if you didn’t keep pushing

more pronounced by the sound

planning on doing this, were you?” he asked. “Always the lawyer. Looking for

nose, but

“If you don’t want to go through with the party, I understand. We’ll try to find a way. But keeping our fake relationship

to be just as difficult as telling them. At least if I laid my cards out on the table about who Logan was, maybe they would understand. Then, once our contract was up, we could split amicably. Logan would have to meet my father anyway to get

Logan,” I said finally. “No offense, but having you in my

had intended, revealing more of my vulnerability than I

said,

my life-this encroaching darkness-I’ve

some point, though, Ella.

at the road ahead as my mind raced with a million different thoughts. “I would just prefer to at least let it

growled deep within me. She had felt our closeness earlier, had come so close to becoming one with Logan, our mate, and I had

would rather my parents come here,” I finally said, sinking a little lower in my