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

now is the time to do it,” he

at Edrick, his eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily through his nose while his free hand was placed firmly

“I– I don’t–”

as he stared intently at me, as though doing so would make me feel even remotely comfortable enough to tell him the truth about the pregnancy. Now, more than ever, I just wanted to

smelled like

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

it around on me,” he replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I

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

Moana,” he said through his teeth. As he spoke, I could see that his fangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my

I still couldn’t answer.

for my response, because he threw the bottle of pills down

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 can leave. I

with his baby, and yet here he was, accosting me in the middle of the night

suddenly felt lightheaded. Selina, seeing this, rushed over to me and held my arm to steady me. I sunk back down to sit on the edge of the bed, and when my eyes refocused, I looked up to see Edrick

“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

human, that I had already shown signs of my own wolf emerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t. Before I could say anything, he

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