His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 116: The Alpha Tooth

Moana

That night, Edrick asked me to sleep with him. I didn’t know exactly what changed, and why he didn’t seem to want me to leave his side, but I chalked it up to the anxiety caused by the whole ordeal. Besides, I wasn’t complaining; I didn’t want to be alone, either.

Feeling his warm arms wrapped around me was a sorely needed comfort, and I found myself slipping off into sleep within moments of laying down with him.

Edrick and I didn’t wake up again until the next morning. Somehow, we slept through the entire day and night, and still felt tired in the morning.

We laid there for a while after waking up, not speaking as we both stared up at the ceiling. I had so many questions about what happened the day before, and how he found me… But it seemed that he had questions of his own, too.

“Can I ask you something?” he said, turning to look at me.

his gaze. I was so used to the Alpha billionaire’s stern eyes by now, but I wasn’t used to how soft and sincere they’d suddenly become since he found

“Do you know anything about your lineage?” he asked. “I mean… Do you know who your parents were, or

had some idea that I was a werewolf if he truly followed my scent to find me, like Mina said. But I wasn’t prepared to tell him right now. What if it turned out that my wolf never wound up being able to emerge? I couldn’t tell him until I was certain. I had planned all along on waiting until I shifted for the first

suddenly sat up, shaking my

that I was left on Sophia’s doorstep. That’s it.” I threw the covers off then and swung my legs over the

enough to show me

your baby. I think it’s only fair

the truth from him. Eventually, our baby would be born and it would be fully werewolf, not human. There would be no hiding it then, and the longer it went on, the more Edrick might start

a sigh, I nodded. “Okay,” I said. “But let me get something first. There’s something I

I opened my top dresser drawer and rifled through it until I found the small wooden box where I kept the wolf tooth that Sophia had given me. I hadn’t looked at the tooth in a while. When she first gave it to me, for some reason I couldn’t stop carrying it around in

lump in my throat, I carried

I didn’t speak as I set the box down in

is it?” he asked tentatively, glancing between me and the box with a

have the strength to speak; I just wanted him

as he stared down at it. Then, gingerly, he picked the tooth up and held it up to the light. I watched in silence, my heart racing, as he turned it

he asked, his

that it’s usually a sign that werewolf parents have chosen to abandon a wolfless child, pronouncing them as dead instead of embracing them for who they are. I didn’t believe her at first when she said that