His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 189

#Chapter 189: A Small Sacrifice

Moana

When I came to, I felt myself sitting in a chair with my wrists tied behind me. My head was pounding from the blow that knocked me out, but that wasn’t the only thing I felt on my head.

Something cold and hard was pressed up against my temple.

My eyes fluttered open, squinting against the bright light of a spotlight. The light was so bright as it shined down on me that I could hardly see past it, but I could tell that I was inside the warehouse now.

The cold metal thing pressed harder into my temple. And then, a familiar voice spoke out.

“Hello, Moana.”

I jumped at the voice and whipped my head around, my eyes widening as I saw Ethan standing beside me with a gun raised to my head.

“E-Ethan?” I whispered, my voice shaking.

Ethan smiled; it was that same creepy smile that I saw on the night of the banquet, when he didn’t think that I was looking. But now, he knew that I was looking right at him and he didn’t bother to keep up the facade anymore.

“Didn’t expect to see me, huh?” he asked.

“Where’s Ella?” I asked. I looked around frantically, only to see her tied to another chair next to me. She was sleeping. “What did you do to her?”

“Don’t worry,” Ethan said calmly. “She’s not hurt. Just under a spell. That way, she won’t need to experience any of this. She will have just gone to sleep, and she’ll never wake up.”

I shook my head vehemently as tears began to pool up in my eyes. “Ethan, you don’t need to do this,” I begged. “At least don’t hurt Ella. Please. I thought we were friends. Why are you doing this?”

Ethan sighed, but continued to press the barrel of the pistol in his hand against my head.

“You’re both innocent,” he admitted, “but you see… It’s not that simple. It was thanks to Edrick and his parents that my beautiful mother killed herself.”