Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Chapter 52

#Chapter 52: The Alpha’s Gaze

Moana

“You’re not pregnant, are you?”

I froze at Ethan’s words, my eyes wide as I stuttered to come up with a response. “I– I’m not–”

Ethan, seeing my uncomfortable struggle, lowered his glass and quickly shook his head to dispel the seriousness of the suggestion he had just made.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I was only joking. Maybe that wasn’t a very appropriate thing to joke about. It’s fine if you don’t want to drink alcohol tonight.”

I tried to laugh off Ethan’s joke, but it was almost embarrassing how astute that joke actually was — if only he actually knew. Then, quickly, I fumbled in my mind to find the right excuse so as not to raise any more red flags about the reality of the situation. “I just… I need to be up early tomorrow, to take Ella to her training.”

Ethan nodded understandingly, but oddly looked a little disappointed at the same time. I watched as he silently took a sip of his wine, then set the glass down.

“I hope that’s okay,” I blurted out. “I suppose I should’ve said something before you spent the money on a bottle of wine.”

“No, no,” Ethan assured me. “It’s perfectly fine. Although, I must admit, I was secretly hoping for something.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Hoping for what?” Nothing could have prepared me for what Ethan said next.

the weekend,” he said. “Admittedly, I was hoping to bring you there tonight, but I suppose

me home to his penthouse for the night. I supposed, then, that it was silly of me to ever assume something like that, and it reminded me of how naive I had been on the night of my one night stand with Edrick, when I stupidly took

thought we were just going out for

and he nodded. “Yes. I’m sorry. I just… I guess I was hoping to

several long moments of palpable silence that hung so thickly in the air that I felt I could cut them with a knife. Just as it was becoming unbearable, the waiter finally returned with two plates of

gentleman,” the waiter said, abruptly ending the awkward silence, “and penne alla vodka for

days, I actually wanted to eat. In fact, the food was so tantalizing, that as soon as

so as not to eat too fast, and

smiled and took a bite of his steak. For the remainder of the night, we didn’t bring up the awkwardness surrounding Ethan’s penthouse, and actually had a lovely time and many deep chats that made me temporarily forget about the

…

back to the spot where we initially met

wonderful night,” I said. “Thank

I really am sorry about that misunderstanding earlier. I know that it was inappropriate of me to assume that you would want to spend the

I nodded.

every night,” he said.

actually terminated our agreement,” I interrupted. “On

aback. “I’m sorry. I hope that I didn’t somehow

was a weird arrangement anyway, so I’m glad that it’s over.” I realized, as I finished talking, that my hand was on my belly. I quickly pulled it away and got out of the car

said, looking a little

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