#Chapter 70: An Unbridgeable Gap

Moana

By the time Ella’s training was about to end, Edrick and I had purchased a whole host of baby supplies. He insisted on buying the bassinet anyway, as well as anything else the baby might need. Although I thought it was a bit irresponsible for him to spend so much on certain items, I figured that he knew what he was doing, and I didn’t argue any further. Besides: I couldn’t help but feel happy to spoil our future child as well.

We picked Ella up at training, then Edrick pulled out of the parking lot and began driving in the opposite direction of the penthouse.

“Um, daddy?” Ella called from the back seat, twisting in her car seat to look intensely out the window. “I think you’re going the wrong way.”

Edrick smirked, then shook his head. “No, Princess. We’re going out for dinner.”

Ella gasped and squealed excitedly. “Really?” she asked.

“Really.”

“Really really?”

“Really really.”

Ella squealed excitedly again, which made both Edrick and I smile. I was sitting in the back with her to keep her company, and at one point I looked up to see Edrick’s gray eyes on me in the rear view mirror. I blushed and quickly looked away. When I glanced back up, he was looking at the road again.

at training today?” I

said. “We did

the car around a corner. “How

teacher said I was the best in the class,” she boasted, placing her hands on her hips with a gloating smile. “I didn’t miss any of the jumps, and I kept my balance the whole way on

about her exciting day of training, I felt a tear come to my eye. That day, I really felt like we were a little family; we were a strange little family, but we were a family nonetheless. I quickly looked out the window

I was amazed by

restaurant was located at the top of a tall building, and we had to take an elevator to get up to it. It was spacious and peaceful at the top, with little trickling fountains and a greenhouse

with one wall that was entirely glass so we could see out over the cityscape. He left us with the menus, and when he did, Edrick finally took off his mask. Much

anything you want,” he said, flipping through the menu.

leaned over from where she was sitting next

“Chicken tenders?!” I asked in a playful tone of voice. “Don’t you want something

Ella insisted, folding

quick glance up —

he asked. “What are you

I was going to order. Lately, I’d been craving a lot of meat; no

sounds good,” I

woman to eat something like that?” he asked. “I just don’t want you

from the Alpha’s concern for my health and the baby’s health. “But I can get something else, if you’re that worried. I’ve just had

and nodded his head. “It says that protein is actually recommended, as well as the vitamins in red

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