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 late; he was already holding the bottle of pregnancy vitamins in

to tell me, now

felt cornered and helpless. When I looked up at Edrick, his eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily through his nose while his free hand was placed firmly on his hip. The hand that was holding the bottle of pills was trembling slightly, creating a soft rattling sound from

“I– I don’t–”

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 her own father treated me like this? He was being erratic and frightening, barging into my room like this in

like

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

me,” he replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think I have the right to know

came over to him and tried to take the bottle of pills from him, but he wrenched his arm away

from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought it could.

I still couldn’t answer.

Edrick seemed to become too impatient to wait for my response, because he threw the bottle of pills down on my bed and glared at me with an intensity that

here

in the middle of the night and telling me to get out.

on the edge of the bed, and when my eyes refocused, I looked up to see Edrick still standing

or climb the social ranks? A way to go from a lowly human orphan who can’t even get a job to

already shown signs of my own wolf emerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t. Before

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