His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 182

#Chapter 182: Mood Swings

Edrick

When Moana told me that she was going out to have coffee with a friend, I was happy for her. In fact, so long as she stayed safe, I encouraged it. I knew how much stress she had been under over the past few months, so it would have been good for her to see a friend for a couple of hours.

However, when my driver called me and asked what was taking Moana so long to come down, I started to feel confused.

“What do you mean?” I asked. “She left half an hour ago.”

“I haven’t seen her,” the driver replied. “I’ve been sitting right out front the whole time.”

I furrowed my brow and stood. Before I jumped to any conclusions, I decided to check both bedrooms to see if she wasn’t feeling well and decided not to leave, and maybe I just didn’t notice her coming back in. However, she wasn’t there.

By then, I was pretty certain that I knew what she had done. She had gone without the driver.

Cursing under my breath, I grabbed my keys and ran downstairs. Since the driver hadn’t seen her at all due to her hiding herself for some reason, I had no way of knowing which direction she even went in. But if she had left on foot, then I was certain that she couldn’t have gone too far. So, climbing into my car, I sped off to check all of the nearby coffee shops for her.

I searched for her for about an hour, running into all of the local coffee shops to see if she was there; unfortunately, she wasn’t in any of them. By now, I was starting to feel panicked. This was too soon after what Kelly had done to her by having her get kidnapped by Rogues, and I became worried that something else had happened to her. As I drove, I eventually pulled out my phone and debated calling the police to look for her. But thankfully, I spotted a head of red hair walking down the street before I made the phone call.

I came to a screeching halt and told her to get in the car. Moana seemed to be in a bit of a mood, and almost immediately snapped at me when I told her that she had done something very dangerous by going out by herself with no protection, especially on foot. Why couldn’t she understand that it wasn’t safe for her to be walking around by herself when she had only just gotten over the incident with Kelly, and the paparazzi were still on the lookout for her? Part of me almost wanted to tell her that she was the Golden Wolf, and that she needed to be kept safe or else there was a chance that she could be kidnapped or hunted. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it; if she knew too soon, then it could speed up her progress with her wolf emerging, and I needed her to wait to shift until the baby was born for a multitude of reasons. Although, I couldn’t help but wonder how much longer I could let this go on without telling her. Especially when she climbed out of the car and slammed the door behind her, I thought to myself that she would grow more and more impatient with me over time.

With a sigh, I watched Moana disappear into the building before I parked the car and headed inside. She didn’t wait for me, not that I expected her to, and by the time I made my way back up to the penthouse she was nowhere to be seen.