Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 116: The Alpha Tooth

Moana

That night, Edrick asked me to sleep with him. I didn’t know exactly what changed, and why he didn’t seem to want me to leave his side, but I chalked it up to the anxiety caused by the whole ordeal. Besides, I wasn’t complaining; I didn’t want to be alone, either.

Feeling his warm arms wrapped around me was a sorely needed comfort, and I found myself slipping off into sleep within moments of laying down with him.

Edrick and I didn’t wake up again until the next morning. Somehow, we slept through the entire day and night, and still felt tired in the morning.

We laid there for a while after waking up, not speaking as we both stared up at the ceiling. I had so many questions about what happened the day before, and how he found me… But it seemed that he had questions of his own, too.

“Can I ask you something?” he said, turning to look at me.

I nodded as I tried to ignore the feeling of my face turning red under his gaze. I was so used to the Alpha billionaire’s stern eyes by now, but I wasn’t used to how soft and sincere they’d suddenly become since he found me in that alleyway.

Edrick seemed to be searching for the right words for a few moments before he finally spoke. “Do you know anything about your lineage?” he asked. “I mean… Do you know who your parents were, or anything like that?”

I was a werewolf if he truly followed my scent to find me, like Mina said. But I wasn’t prepared to tell him right now. What if it turned out that my wolf never wound up being able to emerge? I couldn’t tell him until I was certain.

up,

about my heritage,” I lied. “All I know is that I was left on Sophia’s doorstep. That’s it.” I threw the covers off then and swung

— not hard, but firmly enough to show me that he knew I was lying, and that he wanted me to stay

the father of your baby. I think it’s only

forever, keeping the truth from him. Eventually, our baby would be born and it would be fully werewolf, not human. There would be no hiding it then, and

said. “But let me get something first.

had given me. I hadn’t looked at the tooth in a while. When she first gave it to me, for some reason I couldn’t stop carrying it around in my pocket — but when I eventually realized that I could have lost it or broken it, I decided to tuck it away in a box where nothing could happen to it. This tooth was the only link to my parents, and I didn’t want anything bad to happen to it. Even if my parents did leave me on Sophia’s doorstep because I didn’t have a wolf as a baby, I still wanted to hold onto the possibility of meeting them someday when my

the lump in my throat, I carried the

for me. I didn’t speak as I set the box down in front

is it?” he asked tentatively, glancing between me and the box with a

strength to speak; I just wanted

Edrick opened the oblong wooden box. His eyes widened as he stared down at it. Then, gingerly, he picked the tooth up and held it up to the light. I watched in silence, my heart racing, as he turned it over in the light, inspecting it

his disbelieving gaze sliding

She said that it was in my hand when I was left on her doorstep as a baby. And… She said that it’s usually a sign that a child is a werewolf, and it’s not just that; she also said that it’s usually a sign that werewolf parents have chosen to abandon a wolfless child, pronouncing them as dead instead of embracing them for who they are. I didn’t believe her at first when she said that