His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 131

#Chapter 131: Under Pressure

Moana

Even though I was enjoying spending time at the mountain estate, it seemed that maybe it wasn’t very safe here right now. Edrick didn’t say much about it, but he seemed to be worried ever since that wolf came after Ella and myself, and I couldn’t help but wonder if he knew something that I didn’t. I trusted Edrick to make the right decisions, so when he told me that it was best for us to return to the penthouse for now, I agreed. My only regret was that I didn’t have any time to paint while we were there, and I hoped that I would have another chance to paint soon.

When we finally arrived back at the penthouse, it was already late that night. Selina and the maids prepared a quick meal, but I was too tired and uneasy after what happened to have much of an appetite, and only wanted to go to sleep. Ella was hardly keeping her eyes open, too, so I put her to bed before heading over to Edrick’s room to get some sleep myself.

I couldn’t stop myself from feeling worried, though. Edrick had been extremely quiet ever since what happened in the forest; in fact, he had been quiet ever since his father called him that morning. I couldn’t help but wonder if it was because of me, and if this would mean that he would distance himself from me again.

“Don’t worry,” Mina said, noticing my anxiety. “He’ll come around. He just needs a little time. But I know that he cares about you deeply, so you shouldn’t worry about it too much.”

Even though I wasn’t entirely sure if I believed Mina, I supposed that she had never been wrong about this sort of thing before. Maybe she was right; maybe Edrick just needed a little time to come around and sort some things out. He had already shown me so many times just how much he cared about me. The way he treated me at the mountain estate, even after the horrible things I said to him when he announced our “relationship” and after I put Ella and my baby in danger by being exposed to the paparazzi, he had still treated me lovingly, almost like his real wife. Even as I laid there now, waiting for him to come to bed, I could still feel his warm arms around me from that morning and I could still see the softness in his eyes.

However, as I laid there waiting for Edrick, he never came to bed. I found that it was becoming more and more difficult to sleep without him ever since the incident in the Rogue district, and so I stayed awake in bed, waiting for him with my eyes fixed on the canopy above the bed. It was well after midnight now, and I still hadn’t seen or heard him, so I began to get worried. I thought that maybe he fell asleep at his desk or got too absorbed in work to notice what time it was, so I quietly got out of bed and threw my robe on before walking out into the living room.

Just as I suspected, Edrick was still in his study. I could see a little bit of light pouring out from underneath the door, and I walked over to knock and see why he wasn’t coming to bed, but before I could I froze when I heard him talking to someone.

His voice was raised, and it sounded strained and frustrated.

“I know you sent that thing,” Edrick growled, sounding exasperated. “Just admit it. Were you just trying to scare them, or are you actually such a horrible person that you would try to hurt a pregnant woman and a child?”

Edrick paused, as though he was listening. Was he talking to his father? It sounded as though he was referring to the incident with the wolf earlier that day. I had thought that it was just a random wolf that happened to stumble upon us in the woods, but judging from the way that Edrick was talking about it, I realized that maybe it wasn’t so simple as that. I froze as I heard what he said next.