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?”

was too late; he was

have something to tell me, now is the time to do it,” he

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

“I– I don’t–”

bottle again. His eyes burned with fury 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 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

like

been drinking again?” I asked, scooting

don’t try to twist it around on me,” he replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think I have the right to know as your employer, especially when it affects your ability to

over to him and tried to take the bottle of

here, 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 heart race faster

I still couldn’t answer.

because he threw the bottle of pills down on my bed and glared at me with an intensity that I had never seen

up his fists into balls. “If you don’t want 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 can leave. I want you gone within the

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 to the streets, where I would certainly become homeless, and would potentially even

and standing too quickly. As I stood, I 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 still standing there with fury written across his face. “Why

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

I wasn’t even a human, that I had already shown signs of my own wolf emerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t.