Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#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?”

Edrick didn’t answer. I watched with wide eyes as he stuffed more clothes into his suitcase. “Come help me zip this up?” he asked. I nodded slowly and walked over, then pushed down onto the top of the suitcase so he could zip it up.

“Edrick,” I continued, “please tell me what’s going on. Is it because of last night? I’ll be okay, I promise. We don’t need to leave—”

a bag. “It’s not that,” he said. “It’s for your own safety. And that’s all I’m going to say.

felt my heart sink even further. “But,

silver, as though he was on edge. “Just do it, Moana,” he demanded. “Selina already packed your bags.

didn’t seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had made up his mind, and there was no way to

you,” my wolf said as I painfully made my way to my bedroom.

know. It

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 items were packed away, like Selina was rushing to get just what I needed into

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

Selina replied, sounding quite defeated herself. “But we have to. It won’t

Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on the ground and wailed

Ella wailed, sobbing loudly. “I don’t

a little bit more; especially because I knew that this was my fault. “Here, love,” I said. I grabbed her stuffed duck off of the dresser and put it in her hands, and that seemed to calm her down a

nodded tearfully. I held back my own tears as I wiped hers away, and then led her to my room with me and let her sit

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

was

was spent mostly in silence, with only Ella speaking up 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

view was beautiful, and the trees calmed me. However, this time it just felt like we were ascending into a

keep an eye on her.