Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Nanny and the Alpha Daddy
#Chapter 12: Missing
Moana

I felt my heart sink into the pit of my stomach at the attendant’s words.

“She left quite a while ago. Did you not pick her up?”

“Hold on,” I replied, walking away briskly and trying to stay calm as I dialed the penthouse phone number into my cell phone and asked the concierge to direct me to Edrick’s suite. This had to be some misunderstanding. Surely Ella was safely home. Maybe Amy or Lily got confused with the schedule and picked her up without letting me know.

“Hello?” Selina’s voice said on the other line after a few rings.

“Selina,” I said, trying to sound as calm and collected as possible, “did Amy or Lily pick up Ella from her training?”

Selina was silent for a few moments before responding. “No. That’s your job.” Her voice sounded stern and cold, but I could sense a hint of fear behind it as she seemed to put two and two together. I knew that Selina cared for Ella just as much as I did, and the last thing she would ever want would be for something bad to happen to Ella.

“f**k,” I whispered.

“Excuse me?” Selina growled, irritated by my choice of language.

“I’m sorry,” I responded. “I got stuck in traffic when I was coming back to pick Ella up, and… She’s gone.”

I could hear Selina gasp audibly on the other end of the line. “You weren’t there for her when she was finished with her training?”

I felt a knot form in my stomach. “I’m sorry, I just thought–”

voice quivering with anger. “Find

but I knew I had to act quickly for Ella’s sake. Collecting myself as best I could, I ran out of the training facility and sprinted up

eno– Are you alright? Where’s Ella?” he asked, looking

said hastily as tears streamed down my cheeks, trying to rack my brain as to where Ella might have run off to. Before

I said to the driver.

and held onto the door handle for dear life as he sped down the road, passing other vehicles at dangerous speeds. As we flew down the city streets, all

by herself… And at the same time, I saw a black sports car with tinted windows barreling down the road at breakneck speeds, swerving this way and that as a drunk girl stood

The driver slammed on the brakes and came to a screeching

in slow motion. I found myself running faster than I ever had before. I lunged into the street, my arms outstretched for

felt an impact. I shut my eyes as my body slammed into Ella’s, and together we tumbled to the

panting, and looked down at Ella in

way of the speeding sports car, which continued to careen down the city street as though they hadn’t just been

“Mina, was it YOU?”

It took Mina a while to answer, and she seemed

“That was… incredible.”

to each other on the sidewalk, pulling out their

arms. Without a word as I was too

…

back to the penthouse. He came running into the lobby as we arrived and

should’ve stayed there for the duration of her training!” he shouted in front of the lobby staff.