Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 60: The Billionaire’s Baby

Moana

I had just begun to drift off to sleep. Somehow, I had made it through the gala, and Edrick hadn’t pried about the pregnancy. Maybe he didn’t actually realize it after all; maybe it was just my nerves getting to me, and the Edrick I saw that night was only him being his usual abrasive and cold self.

As I began to fade off into sleep, the tears on my cheek drying, I felt much more at peace. I would still have to make a decision soon, but at least I could do it in my own time.

Oh, how wrong I was!

I must not have been asleep for more than ten minutes at the most when I was suddenly startled awake by the sound of my door flinging open. I gasped and sat up in bed, my eyes wide and still full of tears from before and my heart racing as my fight or flight response kicked in, to see Edrick standing in my doorway.

“Edrick…?” I said, clutching my chest with my hand as my heart pounded. “What are you doing in my room like this?”

He stormed toward my bed. Selina came rushing in after him, but it was too late; he was already holding the bottle of pregnancy vitamins in front of my face.

“If you have something to tell me, now is the time to do it,” he growled.

eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily through his nose while his free hand was placed

“I– I don’t–”

remotely comfortable enough to tell him the truth about the pregnancy. Now, more than ever, I just wanted to abort the pregnancy and be done with it — how could I bring a child into a world where his or her own father treated me like this? He was being erratic and frightening, barging into my room like this in the middle

like

asked, scooting away

I think I have the right to know as your employer, especially when it affects

and tried to take the bottle of pills from him, but he wrenched his arm away and

see that his fangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought it could. I felt like a frightened rabbit in front of the big, bad wolf. Where was Mina when

I still couldn’t answer.

the bottle of

here and lie to me after I’ve

was pregnant with his baby, and yet here he was, accosting me in the middle of the night and telling me to get out. He was sending me back to the streets, where I would certainly become homeless, and would potentially even lose

held my arm to steady me. I sunk back down to sit on the edge of the bed, and when my eyes refocused, I looked

sneered. “I know you’ve been hiding a pregnancy,” he said. “A little werewolf, hm? Tell me, was this your scheme all along? A way to get money or climb the social ranks? A way to go from a lowly human orphan who can’t even get a job to

had already shown signs of my own wolf emerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t.