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.

as I tried to ignore the feeling of my face turning red under his gaze. I was so used to the Alpha

a few moments before he finally spoke. “Do you know anything about your lineage?” he asked. “I mean… Do you know who your parents were, or anything like

he 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

sat up, shaking

I lied. “All I know is that I was left on Sophia’s doorstep. That’s it.” I threw the covers off then and swung my legs over the side of the bed. “Are you hungry? I

— not hard, but firmly enough to show me that he knew I was lying, and that he

father of your baby. I think it’s only fair for you to

be born and it would be fully werewolf, not human. There would be no hiding

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

to make my way to my room without being seen and questioned over why I had slept in Edrick’s room all day and night. Once there, 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 my throat, I carried the box back to Edrick’s

arrived, waiting for me. I didn’t speak as I set the

glancing between me and the box with a confused expression on

the strength to speak; I just wanted him to

the oblong wooden box. His eyes widened 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

his disbelieving gaze sliding over

baby. And… She said that it’s usually a sign that a child is a werewolf, and it’s not just that; she also said 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 I might