CHAPTER THREE

ADRAIN 

You need to be careful around strangers! She could have kidnapped you and sold you away! Why didn't you ask her to bring you to the palace?" I asked my daughter. 

She suddenly grabbed her writing pad that was on the bed and started to write on it. 

I sighed. When, at two years old, my daughter still hadn't said a word, I took her to the doctor, who told me that she was fine. She just chose not to speak. 

Now, at five, she still refused to say anything. But she was a genius. She learned how to write at a young age.

She held up the writing pad for her. 

"What?! You want her to be your nanny?" I asked my daughter in shock. 

She nodded her head as she smiled at me. 

"But... you don't even know her! Why do you want her to be your nanny?" I asked her. 

She started writing on the pad again. "Because she's mommy!" Isabella wrote. 

I was shocked to hear this. My daughter had never called anyone else mummy since my fiance died and left her for me. 

Although there are lots of women who have tried to get close to Isabella, she never liked any one of them. And she never took the initiative to call any one of them mummy.

 I could not help but be curious about who this woman was. Just how did she get my closed-off daughter to like her in just one night? 

"I am sorry, but I can't let her be your nanny. I don't even know who she is, and I don't know if she has any ulterior motives for getting close to  you."I said.

 I still do not completely believe that it was a coincidence that she just happened to find Isabella in the rain yesterday. What was she doing out in that weather?

 Isabella threw her writing pad on the bed and folded her hands across her chest. I could tell that she was angry.

 "Don't be angry, Isabella. I just want to make sure that you're fine. We don't know who that woman is, and she may just be planning on using you!" I said. 

She picked up the writing pad and started to write again.

 "I don't care! I want her as my nanny because she's my mommy! Let her stay in the palace!" Isabella wrote. 

I sighed. I couldn't say no to my daughter. I always gave in to her. 

And that is why, even though I still did not trust that woman, I was willing to hire her to be my daughter's nanny if that was going to make her happy.

 I will just have to keep an eye on her and find out just who she is. 

.....

When I walked out of Isabella's room, Drake, my most trusted bodyguard and right-hand man, was waiting for me. 

"Find out all that you can about that woman who saved Isabella. You said her name was Camilla, right?" I asked Drake. 

After I had taken Isabella away, Drake had stayed behind to ask her what she wanted, but she had refused to take anything from him.

 I could not help but be confused about the kind of woman she was.

 Either she's aiming for something more, or she's just a genuinely kind person. 

Unfortunately, I no longer believed that they were the most genuinely kind people in the world. I felt that everyone just wanted something from each other. 

"Why do you want to know about her? I already asked her, and she said that she did not want  anything."Drake said.

 Drake and I were close friends, so we did not need to be polite to each other. 

"Isabella wants her as her nanny," I said with a sigh. 

"What?! How is this possible? We don't even know who she is!" Drake said.

 "You know how Isabella gets when she wants something. She will stop at nothing to get it, and she won't talk to me if I don't get that woman as her nanny. Besides, do you know what else happened? She called her mommy! My daughter had never called anyone else mummy before. I am really curious about that woman. How did she share so much with my daughter in just one night that she even calls her her mother now? Find out all you can about her, and I also think that acting in the palace as Isabella's nanny will help us find out more about her!" I said. 

Drake sighed. "You have already decided, and I won't be able to talk you out of this, right?" He asked me.

 I smiled. He just knew me so well. 

Besides, everyone knows that I listen to my daughter. As long as she wants something, I will do everything that I can to give it to her.

 So, of course, I can get her the nanny of her choice.

 "Do you need me to go talk to her?" Drake asked.

 I shook my head. "No, I will go talk to her myself. She won't be able to say no to me," I said. I had not been able to remove the image of her face from my mind all day. I had a feeling that I had seen her before, but I just could not remember where I had seen her before. 

Maybe if I see her again, I will remember where I know her from. 

.....

I stood in front of Camilla's house, pacing up and down. I was tired of waiting for her, but I did not want to leave without getting her to be my daughter's nanny. 

Just then, I saw her coming. I smiled as I leaned against her door. 

Her eyes went wide as she saw me. She walked over quickly.

 "Your....Your Highness, what are you doing here?" She asked me. 

"Drake told me that you refused to take anything from him. Why? You could have asked for all the money that you wanted since you saved my daughter."