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?”

bed. Selina came rushing in after him, but it was too late; he was already holding the bottle

me, now is the time to

He was breathing heavily through

“I– I don’t–”

more than ever, I just wanted to abort the

like

asked,

replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think I have the right to know as your employer, especially when

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

were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought it could. I felt like a frightened rabbit in front of the big,

I still couldn’t answer.

to become too impatient to wait for my response, because he threw the bottle of pills down on my

here and lie to me after I’ve given you a home and

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

I sunk back down to sit on the edge of the bed, and when my

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

wanted to tell him that I wasn’t even a human, that I had already shown signs of my own wolf emerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t. Before I could

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