His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 169

#Chapter 169: A Visitor

Moana

A few more days passed by after that. By the end of our first week of school, it seemed as though Ella and I both had settled in quite well. Ella was making loads of friends and loved her teachers, and I also enjoyed teaching. It finally felt as though I was living my childhood dream of being an art teacher, although I did find it difficult to connect with the other teachers. They weren’t unkind and did exchange pleasantries with me each day, but I could tell that they didn’t want to associate with me too much since they still thought that I was human. Maybe over time they would get to know me a bit more and would get over some of their biases. However, right now I couldn’t help but wish that my wolf would just emerge already so that I would stop having to deal with this sort of attitude from people. Unfortunately, however, it didn’t seem like Mina was getting a whole lot stronger. She seemed to be stagnating a bit at her current level of strength.

“It’s probably the baby,” she said when I asked her about it one morning. “I think when you have the baby, I’ll be able to get stronger. For now, your body is focusing on keeping you both healthy for the pregnancy.”

It made sense, but it didn’t necessarily make me feel any better about the situation.

For now, because no one really wanted to talk to me too much, I spent the majority of my lunch breaks eating and drawing in my classroom. Normally it was fine and I quite enjoyed the down time, but on this particular Friday I quickly came to the realization that I should have gone to the faculty lounge when I heard a knock on my door.

I looked up, my cheeks stuffed with my sandwich, and quickly covered my mouth with my hand when I saw the headmistress standing there.

“Oh, sorry to interrupt,” she said. “But you have a visitor.”

I finished chewing and swallowed, then waved her in. “Thank you, Headmistress Hawkins,” I said with a smile. I half expected it to be Edrick stopping by, or maybe Selina.

But my smile faded when I saw who it really was: Ethan.

“Hi, Moana,” he said with a bit of a sheepish smile. He was holding a vase of flowers in his hand as he walked into my room.

Part of me wanted to yell at him to get out after the way that he kissed me. I had thought about it a lot, and I was almost entirely certain that he and Kelly had worked together that night to make Edrick kick me out. I remembered the evil look in his eye when I saw Edrick confronting him, and how his demeanor suddenly shifted theatrically when he noticed me standing there. It wasn’t just that, but seeing him so suddenly instantly reminded me of my conversation at the orphanage with “Olivia”, who I was still unsure about. If it was possible that she really was an actress after all, then Ethan would have been on my list of suspects as to who hired her to begin with.

But I didn’t yell at him or kick him out. Maybe I was too nice; or maybe I was afraid. If he worked with Kelly before, then did he work with her when she hired those Rogues to attack me?

“Hey, Ethan,” I said, standing from my desk so abruptly I almost knocked my chair over. “Um…” My voice faded away. What was I supposed to say to him? To what do I owe the pleasure? Nice to see you? What the hell are you doing in my classroom? “Long time no see.”

I almost instantly cringed at my choice of words, but Ethan didn’t seem to notice. Instead, he simply held up the flowers a bit.