Chapter 60: The Billionaire’s Baby

Moana

I had just begun to drift off to sleep. Somehow, I had made it through the gala, and Edrick hadn’t pried about the pregnancy. Maybe he didn’t actually realize it after all; maybe it was just my nerves getting to me, and the Edrick I saw that night was only him being his usual abrasive and cold self.

As I began to fade off into sleep, the tears on my cheek drying, I felt much more at peace. I would still have to make a decision soon, but at least I could do it in my own time.

Oh, how wrong I was!

I must not have been asleep for more than ten minutes at the most when I was suddenly startled awake by the sound of my door flinging open. I gasped and sat up in bed, my eyes wide and still full of tears from before and my heart racing as my fight or flight response kicked in, to see Edrick standing in my doorway.

“Edrick…?” I said, clutching my chest with my hand as my heart pounded. “What are you doing in my room like this?”

it was too

now is the time

were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily through his nose while

“I– I don’t–”

feel even remotely comfortable enough to tell him the truth about the pregnancy. Now, more than ever, I just wanted to abort the pregnancy and be done with it — how could I bring a child into a world where his or

smelled like

you been drinking again?” I asked, scooting away from him

hiding. I think

take the bottle of pills from him, but he wrenched his arm away and only

could see that his fangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever

I still couldn’t answer.

because he threw the bottle of pills down on my bed and glared at me

to tell me the truth, and you want to sit here and lie to me after I’ve given you a home and a decent salary, then you

was, accosting me in the middle of the night and telling me to get out. He

of the bed, and when

“I know you’ve been hiding a pregnancy,” he said. “A little werewolf, hm? Tell me, was this your scheme all along? A way to get money or climb the social ranks? A way to go from a lowly human orphan who can’t even get a job to a woman of high standing

tell him that I wasn’t even a human, that I had already shown signs

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