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?”

too late; he was already holding the bottle of pregnancy

something to tell me, now is

was breathing

“I– I don’t–”

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 was

smelled like whiskey,

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

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,

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

spoke, I could see that his fangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought

I still couldn’t answer.

threw the bottle of pills down on my bed and glared at me with

“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

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

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

way to get money or climb the social ranks? A way to

that I had already shown signs of my

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