Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 156: In His Pocket

Moana

I felt utterly shocked after my conversation with Olivia. At first, I thought that there was no way that she really was Ella’s biological mother, because Ella’s biological mother was supposed to be dead. But the resemblance was uncanny, and she even knew things that no one else knew, such as Edrick’s drinking problem. And the way that she cried when she talked about Ella… It was too real. She didn’t seem to be faking it, and if she was, then she was a hell of a good actress.

But even then, I still didn’t know if I could trust Olivia enough to fully believe her. There was always a possibility that she was lying and wasn’t Ella’s biological mother, but was instead somehow related to Michael or Kelly. That would explain why she knew so much about Edrick and Ella, and why she called Edrick so much late at night. Maybe Michael or someone else wanted her to bother Edrick and lie to me to get me to leave. I had no way of knowing at this point.

Either way, as I took Ella home that day after training I decided to just pretend for a moment that Olivia was telling the truth. If I assumed that Olivia really was Ella’s biological mother, then that meant that this entire situation was potentially more sinister than I originally thought.

I couldn’t help but worry that my baby would be ripped away from me in the same way that Ella was ripped away from Olivia. Would Edrick really do that to me, after everything that happened between us? I thought that there was a chance that we were mates, but now I wasn’t so sure.

Not only that, but did I really want to be with someone who stole his first wife’s child away from her?

her legs in her car seat and happily sucking on a post-training ice pop, I really could see the resemblance between her and Olivia. I imagined how Ella’s life would have been different if she hadn’t been raised to think that her mother was dead, and honestly the fact

it. I wouldn’t know until I had the perspective from Edrick’s side of the story, and as I took Ella up the elevator and sent her to her room to get washed up for dinner, I wondered when or if I could ask Edrick about all of this.

the full truth, then I wanted to make arrangements to leave and get my baby out of here… As sad as that made me. To think that Ella had only just asked me that morning if she could refer to me as her mother, and now I had supposedly met her mother

room, his study and his bedroom, and he wasn’t there. In

days in a row. And now he was out all day on a Saturday when he was normally home, and no one even heard a peep from

was strange, even for

my wolf tooth. I always felt as though I was more clear headed when I held the tooth in my hand, and right now I needed to be able to think straight after

over to Edrick’s bedroom, where I had been keeping the wolf tooth lately. He had cleared out a drawer in his dresser since I had been sleeping in there again, where I kept a few clothes and some toiletries so that I wouldn’t always need to run back and forth between my room and his room for basic

dresser, where the ornate little wooden box sat where I kept the tooth. I pulled the box out and walked over to sit down on the bed with a

when I opened the

over my shock in dismay before furrowing my brow and jumping up, running over to the drawer and frantically rifling through it for the tooth. Maybe I misplaced it. Maybe it fell out somehow… But it wasn’t in

the mattress, in the bathroom cabinets… I checked everywhere. When I realized that it wasn’t anywhere in Edrick’s room, I tried to keep myself calm as I hurried over to my own room, thinking that maybe I