Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 61: The Love of a Child

Moana

“It’s your baby!” I blurted out.

Edrick fell silent, his eyes wide with disbelief. Beside me, Selina gasped and clapped a hand over her mouth. Even I was shocked by my own candidness.

“I– I’ll leave you two alone,” Selina muttered. I didn’t break my gaze from Edrick, but I heard the sound of her feet scurrying toward the door followed by the sound of the door closing.

Edrick was silent for the longest time before he finally spoke. “Is this true?” His voice was so low it was almost a whisper, a stark contrast from how angrily he was speaking to me before.

“Yes,” I replied, nodding solemnly. “It’s yours. Five weeks along — six, now, actually.”

Edrick went silent again. He seemed to be calculating. I just hoped that he trusted me enough to believe me. Finally, he nodded and I felt my heart rate go back down in relief. I watched as he sat down on the armchair across from my bed and sank down into it, holding his hand on his forehead as he stared at the floor.

Finally, he said something. “Are you going to keep it?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I guess I want to, but I think that you should have a say in it, too.”

He nodded, then finally removed his hand from in front of his face and leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, looking at me with a somber expression. “It’s your choice,” he said. “If you want to keep it, then it’s up to you.”

whether or not the baby

the month?” I asked, my voice quivering slightly

too attached to you for me to send you away, and above all else, I want what’s

“So you accept

when his face, which had softened temporarily when I told him about my pregnancy,

I will never marry you, so if all of this was some sort of

in the middle of his sentence. I furrowed my brow and c****d my head for a moment, wondering what he was going to say, but I was more concerned by how he mentioned that he would never marry me. Not only that, but he also seriously thought that I would come up with a twisted plan like

use a child for some sort of sick ulterior motive.”

“Good.”

door before pausing and turning back to face me with that steely gray gaze I had become so familiar

support to ensure that the child leads a good life, just like Ella. But keep

though he were simply giving a financial report to his business colleagues

it seemed that discovering that he was potentially going to have another child was just another business transaction.

about it,”

without another word, he left the

loving marriage. It sickened me to my core, and as I began to sob, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that

know what to do, Mina,” I said out loud, not thinking what the implications could be if someone overheard me. I just needed

In fact, I hardly felt her presence at all. Even though her presence had always been sporadic since the first dream I had about her, I could tell that