#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.

I looked up at Edrick, his eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing heavily through his nose while his free hand was placed firmly on his hip. The hand that

“I– I don’t–”

ever, I just wanted to abort the pregnancy and be done with it — how could I bring a child into a world

smelled like

drinking again?” I asked, scooting away from

on me,” he replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think I have the right to

to take the bottle of pills from him, but

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

I still couldn’t answer.

response, because he threw the bottle of pills down on my bed and glared

truth, and you want to sit here and lie to me after I’ve given you a

in the middle of the night and telling me to get out. He was sending me back to the streets, where I would certainly

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

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

shown signs of my own

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