His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

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?”

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

something to tell me, now is

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 the

“I– I don’t–”

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

smelled like

again?” I asked, scooting away from him on the

tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think I have the right to

over to him and tried to take the bottle of pills from him, but he

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

I still couldn’t answer.

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

want to sit here and lie to me after I’ve given you a home and a decent salary, then you can leave. I want you gone within the

me want to vomit. I was pregnant with his baby, and yet here he was, accosting me in the middle of the night and telling me to get out. He was sending me back

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 still standing there with fury written across his face. “Why are you doing this?” I asked again. My voice was soft and meek, and quivered slightly from the tears that threatened to come

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

I had already shown signs of my