Chapter 70: An Unbridgeable Gap

Moana

By the time Ella’s training was about to end, Edrick and I had purchased a whole host of baby supplies. He insisted on buying the bassinet anyway, as well as anything else the baby might need. Although I thought it was a bit irresponsible for him to spend so much on certain items, I figured that he knew what he was doing, and I didn’t argue any further. Besides: I couldn’t help but feel happy to spoil our future child as well.

We picked Ella up at training, then Edrick pulled out of the parking lot and began driving in the opposite direction of the penthouse.

“Um, daddy?” Ella called from the back seat, twisting in her car seat to look intensely out the window. “I think you’re going the wrong way.”

Edrick smirked, then shook his head. “No, Princess. We’re going out for dinner.”

Ella gasped and squealed excitedly. “Really?” she asked.

“Really.”

“Really really?”

“Really really.”

one point I looked up to see Edrick’s gray eyes on me in the rear view mirror. I blushed and quickly

at training today?”

things,” she said. “We

obstacle course?” Edrick asked as he guided the

class,” she boasted, placing her hands on her hips with a gloating smile. “I didn’t miss any of the jumps, and I kept my balance the whole way

to my eye. That day, I really felt like we were a little family; we were a strange little family,

at the restaurant, I was amazed by

spacious and peaceful at the top, with little trickling fountains and a greenhouse feel to it. There was a big glass ceiling with an observation deck for people to walk around and look at the city view. Meanwhile, green plants hung down from the ceiling, lined the walls in pots, and little gardens

could see out over the cityscape. He left us with the menus, and when he did, Edrick finally took off his mask. Much to my pleasure, the Alpha billionaire was smiling. He pulled Ella’s chair out, then mine, which

flipping through the menu. “Both of

chin thoughtfully, then leaned over from where she was sitting next to me and pushed the menu toward

laughed. “Chicken tenders?!” I asked in a playful tone of voice. “Don’t you

are fancy,” Ella insisted, folding her arms

aside from a quick glance up — and as he did, I

about you, Moana?” he asked. “What

what I was going to order. Lately, I’d been craving a

sounds

for a pregnant woman to eat something like that?”

Alpha’s concern for my health and the baby’s

He quickly typed something, then was silent for a moment and nodded his head. “It says that protein is actually recommended, as well as the vitamins in red meat. You should

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