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 replied. “I guess I want to, but I think that you should have a say in

leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, looking at me with a somber expression. “It’s your choice,” he said. “If you want to keep

the baby would have a father in its life, as well as whether I would keep my

want me out within the month?” I asked, my voice quivering slightly as

to you for me to send you away, and above all

out a small sigh of relief. “So you accept the baby as your own,

though my heart was going to pound out of my chest. My anxieties only increased when his face, which had softened temporarily when I told him about my pregnancy, suddenly hardened again. He stood and crossed over to the window, looking out over

publicly. And I hope you understand that I will never marry you, so if all of this

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

for some sort

“Good.”

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

support to ensure that the child leads a good life, just like Ella. But keep

was steady and matter-of-fact, as though he were simply giving a financial report to his business colleagues

billionaire’s cold demeanor. To him, it seemed that discovering that he was potentially going to have another child was just another

about it,”

well. Then, without another

I undeserving of respect, but my child was also undeserving of parents that were in a committed, loving marriage. It sickened me to my core, and as I began to sob, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that this really would not be a healthy situation to bring a child into. Any child deserved to be accepted and

out loud, not thinking what

about her, I could tell that this pregnancy and the