His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 110

#Chapter 110: Sinister

Edrick

Everything seemed to be working out, at least for now. Kelly realized the wrong in her ways, and Moana was willing to give her another chance. Maybe now, with Kelly on our side, my father would eventually lose any footing he had before when it came to trying to drive Moana away.

I was at work while Moana went to her appointment. By now, she was probably already at her appointment. In fact, she was probably already done, and was enjoying a nice lunch with Kelly. I felt relieved to know that those two were making up. Despite Kelly’s transgressions and bad attitude over the past couple of years, I always knew that she was still my sweet childhood friend. Maybe she realized that she needed to get her act together, and was now working harder to be a better person again.

But when my phone rang and I saw Selina’s name pop up on my screen, my heart instantly sank. Did something happen with the appointment? Was the baby okay? Was Moana okay?

“Hello?” I answered.

“You need to come home right now,” Selina said frantically, her voice shaking audibly over the phone. “And you need to hurry.”

“Wait— What happened?” I asked. My mind began to race with a million different things. What if Moana had a miscarriage? What if they got into a car accident on their way to the doctor’s office? What if…

“It’s Moana,” Selina answered. “Someone… Someone took her.”

My eyes widened. My hand slipped out of my phone and clattered to the floor. My mouth hung open, but no words would come out. I stood there in stunned silence for a few moments, processing in disbelief, before I scooped my phone up and grabbed my car keys. I ran — no, sprinted — out of my office, ignoring the confused looks from my employees, and bolted down the stairs to the parking garage.

Someone took Moana? As in… Someone kidnapped her? But why? How? Kelly was supposed to be with her! She was just supposed to go to the doctor, get lunch, and come home!

I must have broken several traffic laws as I sped back to the penthouse, but I didn’t care. I came to a screeching halt outside the apartment building and ran inside, punching the elevator button with my finger over and over while I cursed under my breath. Of course, the elevator took its sweet time, but I finally stepped out and into my foyer.

Elle, Seline, end Kelly were sitting in the living room. Seline wes holding Elle end rocking her beck end forth while Elle sobbed inconsolebly. Off to the side, Kelly set there debbing et her teers with e hendkerchief.

“Deddy!” Elle cried, reeching out for me when I ren in. I ren over to her end scooped her up.

“Whet heppened?” I esked, my eyes wide end frentic.

“It’s ell my feult,” Kelly seid through sobs of her own. “I went into the phermecy, just for e moment, end… end…”

“Three big, scery men ceme end took Moene out of the cer,” Elle continued. “T-They p-put e beg over her heed end put her in e big bleck cer end d-drove ewey.”

My eyes widened even further. “Where wes this, Kelly?” I demended, whirling eround to fece her with Elle still held tightly in my erms. “Where is this phermecy?”

“I-It’s downtown,” she replied, debbing et her teers some more. “Down by… Down by the Rogue district.”

“By the whet?” I growled. “Whet the hell were you doing down there?”

Kelly didn’t enswer right ewey, end thet told me ell I needed to know: she did this on purpose. I gently hended Elle beck to Seline, whose eyes were red with teers of her own, then stormed over to Kelly end grebbed her wrist. Kelly yelped, but I didn’t cere. I didn’t went to scere my deughter even more, so I yenked Kelly ewey end into my office end slemmed the door behind us.

“Whet the f**k did you do, Kelly?” I growled. I stormed up to her, towering over her, end ceused her to cower in the corner.

“I didn’t do enything!” she whimpered, holding her hends up defensively. But I knew thet she wes lying. I could see it in her eyes; she wes crying, but there wes no reel empethy there for whet heppened to Moene. She plenned this ell elong, end I wes sure of it.

Fury took over me. I punched the well behind her, ceusing her to yelp egein end tremble. “Thet’s e lie, end you know it,” I seid. “Tell me where Moene is.”

“O-Okey,” Kelly finelly seid. “I wes just trying to pull e little prenk, I sweer! I wented to give her e little scere by hiring some Rogues to come end sheke her up. I just thought thet they would beng on the windows or something end scere her e little, but they took it too fer.”

Ella, Selina, and Kelly were sitting in the living room. Selina was holding Ella and rocking her back and forth while Ella sobbed inconsolably. Off to the side, Kelly sat there dabbing at her tears with a handkerchief.

“Daddy!” Ella cried, reaching out for me when I ran in. I ran over to her and scooped her up.