His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

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.

traffic when I was coming back to pick Ella up, and… She’s

Selina gasp audibly on the other end of the line. “You weren’t there

form in my stomach. “I’m sorry, I just

excuses,” Selina said, her voice quivering with

the phone. The room spun around me as I stared down at my phone screen, 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 to the car where the driver was

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

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

to the orphanage in the Waterside District,” I said to the driver. “I have a feeling

quickly buckled my seatbelt 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 I could think of was

of blonde hair walking at an intersection a little ways away, 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 through

screamed, pointing. The driver slammed on the brakes and came to a screeching halt. Without

outstretched for Ella as she stood frozen in the middle of the crosswalk just as the sports

my body slammed into Ella’s,

my eyes, panting, and looked down at Ella in my

out of the way of the speeding sports car, which continued to careen down

“Mina, was it YOU?”

Mina a while to

“That was… incredible.”

murmuring to each other on the sidewalk, pulling out their phones to

crying Ella in my arms. Without a word as I was too stunned and relieved to speak, I nodded

…

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

the duration of her training!” he shouted in front of the