His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 92: Love and Marriage

Moana

The children quickly forgot about the emotional moment between Edrick and I by the time they finished their ice cream, and we left the ice cream parlor to make our way back to the orphanage.

By the time we made it back to the orphanage, the sun was already beginning to set. Ella would have her werewolf training in the morning, so we needed to get home in time for dinner and bedtime. As Ella said her goodbyes to her friends in the foyer, Edrick and I stood patiently by the door.

Finally, when Ella had hugged all of her new friends as though she would never see them again, I gave Sophia my last goodbye and we began to head out.

“Wait! Moana! Mr. Morgan!” Clara’s little voice called out, causing us to stop in our tracks. “I have a question!”

“What is it, Clara?” I asked, feeling a smirk spread across my face at the little girl’s urgent demeanor.

Clara back around to face us. Her face

did Edrick

Sophia said, shooting me an apologetic glance as she walked up to

and

felt bad for not being able to explain anything more, but it wasn’t entirely my call. Edrick’s silence told me that he wasn’t ready to talk to outsiders about our situation just yet, and I wanted to respect that. “I’ll see you

“Okay.”

the car where the driver was waiting. Edrick opened the door for Ella and myself, and while I buckled Ella into her car seat, Edrick got in on

so much as turning even once to look back at me. I could tell that Clara’s question took him just as off guard as it did to me, and I knew that it made us equally uncomfortable. It was a confusing and awkward subject to broach, and what made it even worse was that the children at the orphanage — and Sophia — didn’t even know about the pregnancy yet. How would we be able to explain something like that when my belly eventually grew to the point where there was

as I heard the door click shut, but kept my chin up for Ella and helped Selina and the maids prepare dinner. Ella was thankfully just too preoccupied with her exciting day to notice her father’s sullenness after the question that Clara asked, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it as we ate dinner and I gave

lonely as Edrick was. Meanwhile, he was having one night stands with other women. Just because I caught him this time, too, didn’t necessarily mean that there hadn’t been other times. Even just thinking about it made my blood boil, however, so I tried not to let it get to me as I got

at this point for us to sit in front of her mirror at night while I brushed her hair one

Much to my surprise, she was mostly quiet while I brushed and braided her hair. I figured that she was just tired, but it wasn’t until I tucked her into bed for the night that she

just as I was about to

to look at her. She was tucked into her blanket up to her chin, with her favorite stuffed animal — the little handmade stuffed duck that I’d purchased for her