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–”

Selina said, her voice quivering with

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

you long eno– Are you alright? Where’s

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 had left, I had mentioned to

in the Waterside District,” I said to the driver. “I have a feeling she went there to look for

for dear life as he sped down the road, passing other vehicles at dangerous

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

slammed on the brakes and came to a screeching halt. Without thinking,

lunged into the street, my arms outstretched for Ella as she stood frozen in the middle of the crosswalk just as the sports

an impact. I shut my eyes as my body slammed into Ella’s,

eyes, panting, and looked down at Ella

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

“Mina, was it YOU?”

tried…” It took Mina a while to answer,

“That was… incredible.”

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

two alright?” the driver asked, helping me stand as I held the crying Ella in my arms. Without a word as I was too stunned

…

running into the lobby as we

shouted in front of