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.”

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

out within the month?” I asked, my voice quivering slightly as

“Ella is too attached to you for me to send you away, and above

let out a small sigh of relief. “So you accept the

Edrick was silent. The longer he didn’t speak, the more I felt 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 told him about my pregnancy, suddenly hardened again. He stood

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 twisted scheme to marry a rich man,

sentence. I furrowed my brow and c****d my head for a moment, wondering what he was going to say, but I was more

use a child for some sort

“Good.”

turned around, his expression cold and emotionless, and started to head toward the door before pausing and turning back to face me

a good life, just like Ella. But keep in mind as you make

and matter-of-fact, as though he were simply giving a financial report to his business colleagues

discovering that he was potentially going to have another child was just another

think about

Then, without another word, he left

parents that were in a committed, loving marriage. It sickened me to my core, and as I began to sob, I couldn’t

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

been sporadic since the first dream I had about her, 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 she ever