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—”

tossing toiletries into a bag. “It’s not that,” he said.

sink even

it was stern and his eyes were still glowing silver, as though he was on edge.

seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had made up his mind, and there was no way to

my wolf said as I painfully made my way to my

know. It

for the day. Other than that, my other necessities were all

her tugging on Selina’s skirt with tears streaming down

herself. “But we have to. It won’t

Selina yanked her skirt away so she could continue to pack Ella’s bags and Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on the

leave!” Ella wailed, sobbing

my heart break just 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

back my own tears as I wiped hers away, and then led her to my room with me

in the matter. But I, unlike Ella, had a 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

for that, I was a bit

silence, with only Ella speaking up on occasion to whine about how she wanted to go home or how she

time, the mountain air felt fresh, the view was beautiful, and the trees calmed me.

maids on her heels to keep an eye on her. Edrick immediately started