Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 179: Discovering the Truth

Moana

A little while later, after walking a few blocks through the city, I arrived at the coffee shop where Olivia and I planned to meet. It was a small, nondescript coffee shop that didn’t appear to be well known, which would be helpful in keeping our meeting secret.

When I stepped into the little coffee shop, I looked around and didn’t see Olivia yet.

“Can I get you anything?” the barista behind the counter, a bored-looking teenage girl, asked.

“U-Um, just an iced latte,” I replied, fishing through my purse for my wallet. The barista lazily made my drink and handed it to me, and I gave her the money before sitting down. I made sure to sit away from the window, just in case anyone would see me with Olivia.

A few minutes passed, and finally the bell on the door rang as someone came in. It was Olivia. She shot me a stiff smile and ordered her own coffee before sitting down across from me. Although we had planned to act nonchalant, as though we were just old friends meeting up to chat, I found it difficult to feel natural as I sat across from the spitting image of Ella. She seemed to look even more like Ella now, with her hair pulled back in a slightly messy ponytail, and she was wearing a plain shirt and jeans. I could see why Edrick would have liked Olivia, but it was all the more confusing knowing that he had claimed that she was dead.

“How is everything going?” Olivia asked, keeping her voice low.

“Um…” I didn’t know where to begin. Already, I could feel my voice beginning to shake. Olivia, somehow noticing this, smiled and reached across the table to give my arm a squeeze.

“Is he hurting you?”

I shook my head vigorously. “No. He’s been… He’s been wonderful. On the outside, at least. But I’ve been feeling as though he’s up to something and I don’t know what.”

hand away. She

to know for the context of the story: I’m a werewolf, and not a human. I didn’t know myself until recently, when my wolf suddenly began to manifest. But lately, I’ve been noticing that my wolf has been feeling strange and tired. At first, I thought that it was just my pregnancy hormones or something, but then I noticed that it was always worse after I had my morning coffee. So the other day, I decided not to drink it, and I noticed that my wolf felt better. But Edrick noticed, too. And when he picked me

smoothie?” Olivia asked, to which I nodded. “What

of hours. And Edrick was… weird about it. It was like he was insisting on me drinking it. Ella wanted some, and when I

that she had experienced the same thing, or had at least experienced something very similar, when

drinking anything else they’ve given you, right?” Olivia asked, leaning across the table a bit and looking at

my head. “No,” I replied. “And I’ve been feeling better. My wolf’s

small sigh of relief.

moment, before I remembered the incident with the wolf tooth, as well as something else. Something tiny, that I didn’t think much of

I had been keeping it in my purse — and slid it across the table for Olivia to see. “I showed it to Edrick when he found out that I was a werewolf. He started acting strange about it, though. He seemed to look at it intensely

in her hand. Her eyes widened when I said that Edrick stole

it to have it analyzed so he could see whether it was an Alpha tooth or not. Of course, it made

only interested in producing Alpha

silence as Olivia inspected the tooth carefully before she handed it

I found a pair of scissors on his bedside table. And he was gone when I woke up. Like I said, maybe it’s nothing,

even wider than

furrowed my brow.

hair,” she continued. “Is any of it missing? Like it’s been cut?

Olivia didn’t seem to be joking. My smile faded, and I slowly raised my hand to grope around on the underside of my hair. I didn’t