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.”

relieved, but there was still the looming question of whether or not the baby would have a father in its

still want me out within the month?” I asked, my voice quivering slightly as I tried to calm

course not,” Edrick said, much to my surprise. “Ella is too attached to you for me to send you away, and above all else, I want what’s

small sigh of relief. “So you accept

as though my heart was going to pound out of my chest. My anxieties only increased when his face, which had softened temporarily when I

another sigh of relief, but he wasn’t finished. “But not publicly. And I hope you understand that I will never marry you, so if all of this was some sort of

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

child for some sort of sick ulterior motive.” I

“Good.”

to head toward the door before pausing and turning back to face me with that steely gray gaze

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

steady and matter-of-fact, as though he were simply giving a financial report to his business colleagues and not speaking

was potentially going to have another child was just another business transaction. Regardless, I swallowed my emotions and nodded, averting

think about it,”

nodded as well. Then, without another word, he left

only was I undeserving of respect, but my child was also undeserving of parents that were in a committed, loving marriage. It sickened me to my core, and as I began to sob, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that this really would not be a healthy situation to bring a child into. Any child deserved to be accepted

Mina,” I said out loud, not thinking what the

I could tell that this pregnancy and the heartache surrounding it was weakening her. If I went through with the pregnancy before she emerged, would