Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 145: Taking Care of Business

Edrick

We went to the picnic, where everything went well at first. Moana and Ella were the perfect picture of a happy family while I gave my speech, and I was proud of both of them for that. Some people seemed to notice that Ella was referring to Moana by her first name, though, which I knew I would have to handle later before people began asking questions. I knew that I should have talked to Ella beforehand, but I had to admit that I completely forgot. But it was nothing that we couldn’t handle, even if people did start asking questions. With a child that age, it was easy to claim that she was simply trying out something that she saw in a movie, or that she was pushing parental boundaries. Besides, with the work that my PR agency did to mitigate the clips of me punching the paparazzi, I knew that people were unlikely to bother us much — at least for now.

After I briefly spoke to Mia, I decided to let Moana and my old friend get to know each other a bit, so I made my way over to speak to one of my business partners. I had to talk to him about something important that couldn’t wait, anyway.

I had known Mia since we were kids. She was always a good friend, although we did fall off a bit after high school. It wasn’t like it was with Kelly; Mia was her own person, and she never had any interest in marriage. She never followed me around like a lost puppy, and she wasn’t vindictive and cruel like Kelly was. Mia was just a good friend who I saw very rarely, and she was an incredible businesswoman. If I ever had to give up control of WereCorp, I always knew that I would offer her the position of CEO in a heartbeat; and I knew that she would gladly take the role and do incredibly well. Her branches of the company overseas were some of the most successful branches in the world, and she was a fair yet brilliant boss.

Either way, I hoped that Mia and Moana could become friends. I knew that Moana needed some allies in this brutal business world, and Mia was a wonderful person.

I quickly became engrossed in my conversation with my business partner. We had been having some issues with overseas manufacturers dealing with labor strikes, and it needed to be dealt with.

“I say we fire the lot of them and hire new people who won’t complain so much,” my business partner said in a gruff tone of voice. “I’ll tell ya… These humans. They’re never happy with anything.”

replied. “Regardless of whether they’re humans or werewolves, they still deserve basic decency. The only way to go about this is

and they’ll keep taking and taking and taking. You need to learn to rule with

chuckle. My business partner laughed, too, his big round belly jiggling as he did so. The event had only just begun,

fact that my bigoted business partner kept shooting her dirty looks as though I wouldn’t notice, I was happy to have her here. I knew that he and many others thought that she was human, and I couldn’t wait for the day when the truth could finally come

can make a deal with them. But if they don’t accept our first offer, I say we

the forefront of my mind. In fact, I was already preoccupied by the fact that Moana kept glancing over her shoulder. I followed her gaze to find that she

myself become worried. “Are

her head around to look at me and nodded rapidly. She took a sip of her lemonade, but I could see that her hand was shaking a bit as she held the glass, and it made me even more worried. “Yes, I’m

“Tell the truth,” I said. “You look like you saw a

as she stared down at the ground. I was just about to press her to tell me what was going on again when

employee over there is my ex-boyfriend,” she

the employee again. I couldn’t deny the fact that a bit of jealousy bubbled up already just from knowing that Moana’s ex was here, but I tried not to show it. But it still didn’t explain why she

something to you?”

nodded. “We broke up on the day I met you, actually. When… Our baby was conceived. I found him cheating on me, with…” She glanced over at him again, then subtly pointed her index finger while she was still holding her glass of lemonade at a