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?”

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. I had planned all along on waiting until I shifted for the first time to tell him the truth, assuming that we would still be

up, shaking my

know anything 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 my legs over the side of the bed. “Are you

hand suddenly shot out and grabbed my arm — not hard, but firmly enough to show me that he knew I

Moana,” he said quietly. “I’m the father of your baby. I think it’s only fair for you

this forever, keeping the truth from him. Eventually, our baby would be born and it would be fully

with a sigh, I nodded. “Okay,” I said. “But let me get something

on my arm and I stood, putting on my robe before I slipped out of his room. It was still early enough for the other servants and Ella to be asleep, so I was able to make my way to my room without being seen and questioned over why I had slept in Edrick’s room all day and night. Once there, I opened my top dresser drawer and rifled through it until I found the small wooden box where I kept the wolf tooth that Sophia 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

the lump in my throat, I carried the box

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

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

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

is yours?” he asked, his disbelieving gaze

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