His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 12

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.

sorry,” I responded. “I got stuck in traffic when I was coming back to

audibly on the other end of the line. “You weren’t there for her

a knot form in my stomach. “I’m

excuses,” Selina said, her voice quivering

else, Selina abruptly hung up 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 waiting,

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

down my cheeks, trying to rack my brain as to where Ella might have run off to. Before I had left, I had mentioned to her that I was going to be at

said to the driver. “I have a feeling she went there to look for

for dear life as he sped

little head 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 the sunroof, hooting and hollering

on the brakes and came to a screeching halt. Without thinking, I leaped out

outstretched for

into Ella’s, and together we

my eyes, panting, and looked down at

speeding sports car, which

“Mina, was it YOU?”

Mina a while to answer, and

“That was… incredible.”

murmuring to each other

Without a word as I was too stunned and relieved to speak, I nodded

…

we got back to the penthouse. He came running into the lobby as we arrived and ripped Ella out of my arms, who only cried

duration of her training!” he shouted in front

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