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.”

She didn’t seem surprised in

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

the smoothie?” Olivia asked,

was… weird about it. It was like he was insisting on me drinking it. Ella wanted some,

began to widen. I could instantly tell from the expression on her face that she had experienced the same thing, or had at least experienced something very similar, when she lived with

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

“No,” I replied. “And I’ve been feeling better.

of relief. “Have you noticed any

furrowed my brow, thinking for a moment, before I remembered the incident with the wolf tooth, as well as something else. Something tiny, that I didn’t think much of at the time, but now it felt

tooth.” I pulled it out — ever since the initial incident 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.

hand. Her eyes widened when I said that Edrick stole it.

whether it was an Alpha tooth or not. Of course, it made

he’s only interested

inspected the tooth carefully before she handed it back to

“Maybe it’s nothing. But on the same morning that he had taken the tooth, I found a pair

wider than before. “Check your

my brow.

it missing? Like it’s

joking. My smile faded, and I slowly raised my hand to grope around