His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 73: Keeping Secrets

Edrick “Edrick…” My mother dropped her tone of voice and leaned closer to me. She took my hand in hers and gave me a serious, knowing look that only a mother could have. “Is she pregnant?”

I frowned, hiding the fact that my heart had just started beating rapidly. “What?” I said, shaking my head. “What makes you think that?”

My mother folded her arms across her chest and narrowed her eyes. “Edrick, I’m your mother. You can’t lie to me.” There was a long silence after she spoke, but her eyes never wavered from mine. Even in her old age, she was still just as astute and level-headed as ever. I had never been able to lie to my mother, and she knew that. Finally, I caved.

“Yes,” I replied quietly. “She is pregnant.”

“I knew it,” my mother said. I could tell that she was hiding a bit of a smirk at her miniature victory, but at the same time, she was dead serious. “Is it yours?”

I didn’t answer right away. I felt a lump rise in my throat after being put on the spot. Sure, I was planning on telling my mother eventually, but now? Like this? It felt so out of the blue, and I had no time at all to prepare an explanation.

“It’s not—”

you already have, and the baby. Not to mention the emotional toll it would take on that poor girl to feel like she birthed a baby that could never

lied, this time taking care to hide my lie even though it pained me to hide something like this from my mother. “It’s someone

silent for a moment. I could practically see the gears turning in her head; I knew that she didn’t believe me. “Darling, I already heard all about your visit to the hospital this morning,” she admitted. “You know, the couples that you let her ahead of are well known, after all, and they were very put out by the entire thing. But I digress, and it was well within your rights to do such a thing if you felt it necessary. If it wasn’t yours, though, why would you bother going to the

supposed to say? That I cared about my daughter’s nanny out of the kindness of my heart and didn’t want her visiting some shoddy doctor who wouldn’t give her and the baby in her belly the best care possible? My mother would never believe it; she had always been an intuitive woman, and even now, I knew that she

my surprise, she didn’t question further. “Well then,” she said with a slight sigh, leaning

set the tray down, then began

be necessary,” my mother said, standing. “I only wanted to

seemed a bit surprised, as was I — but I obliged, honestly relieved to know that such a difficult conversation was over for now. At the same time, however, I couldn’t help but feel guilty for lying to my mother… And I couldn’t help but feel even more guilty when I saw Moana standing in the kitchen,

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family would find out. I couldn’t hide it forever, and already I was on thin ice for blatantly lying to my mother’s face like that in a way that no son ever should. But what was I supposed to do? I was put on the spot, and I hadn’t prepared yet. While my mother was a

for hours. That was what he had done with Ella, and she was a purebred werewolf. I could only imagine his reaction when he found out that I was

the table when I arrived. Moana was tucking a

that I’d actually spent the afternoon doing nothing but pondering how to tell my mother

answer. I didn’t think much of it at first and began to cut my steak, but when the table remained silent whereas Moana would have normally begun to ask Ella questions about her day by now, I began to get suspicious. When I glanced up from my steak, I saw her glaring at me. She quickly looked away and popped a bite of glistening steak into her