His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 61: The Love of a Child

Moana

“It’s your baby!” I blurted out. Edrick fell silent, his eyes wide with disbelief. Beside me, Selina gasped and clapped a hand over her mouth. Even I was shocked by my own candidness.

“I– I’ll leave you two alone,” Selina muttered. I didn’t break my gaze from Edrick, but I heard the sound of her feet scurrying toward the door followed by the sound of the door closing.

Edrick was silent for the longest time before he finally spoke. “Is this true?” His voice was so low it was almost a whisper, a stark contrast from how angrily he was speaking to me before.

“Yes,” I replied, nodding solemnly. “It’s yours. Five weeks along — six, now, actually.”

Edrick went silent again. He seemed to be calculating. I just hoped that he trusted me enough to believe me. Finally, he nodded and I felt my heart rate go back down in relief. I watched as he sat down on the armchair across from my bed and sank down into it, holding his hand on his forehead as he stared at the floor.

Finally, he said something. “Are you going to keep it?” he asked.

“I guess I want to, but I think

from in front of his face and leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, looking at

wanted to be relieved, but there was still the looming question of whether or not the baby would have

out within the month?” I asked, my

course not,” Edrick said, much to my surprise. “Ella is too attached to you for me to send you away, and above all else, I want what’s best

sigh of relief. “So you accept the baby as

again, Edrick was silent. The longer he didn’t speak, the more I felt as though my heart was going to pound out of my chest. My anxieties only increased when his face,

another sigh of relief, but he wasn’t finished. “But not publicly. And I hope you understand that I will never marry you, so if all of this was some sort of twisted scheme to marry a rich man, then maybe you should abort the pregnancy after all and save the

the middle of his sentence. I furrowed my brow and c****d my head for a moment, wondering what he was going to say, but I was more concerned by how he mentioned that he would never marry me. Not only that, but he also seriously thought that I would come up with a twisted

child for some sort of

“Good.”

around, his expression cold and emotionless, and started to head toward the door before pausing and turning back to

the child leads a good life, just like Ella. But keep in mind as you make your decision that you will never get a marriage out of this. We will be

though he were simply giving a financial report to his business colleagues and not speaking to the mother of his second

begin to well up in my eyes at the Alpha billionaire’s cold demeanor. To him, it seemed that discovering that he was potentially going to have another child was just another business transaction. Regardless, I swallowed my emotions and nodded, averting my

think about it,” I

Then, without

of parents that were in a committed, loving marriage. It

do, Mina,” I said out loud, not thinking what the implications

had about her, I could tell that this pregnancy and the heartache surrounding it was weakening her. If I went through with the pregnancy before she emerged, would she ever