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?”

him, but it was too

you have something to tell me, now is

my mouth to speak, but nothing came out. The lump in my throat was too large, and I felt cornered and helpless. When I looked up at Edrick, his eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily

“I– I don’t–”

the 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

smelled like whiskey,

I asked, scooting away from him on the

hiding. I think I have the right to know as your

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

from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought it could. I felt like a frightened rabbit

I still couldn’t answer.

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

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

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

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,

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

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 say anything, he