Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#Chapter 197: Straight From the Heart

Moana

We headed upstairs after the police officer dropped us off. When we arrived, Selina and the maids were sitting on the couch and immediately jumped up when they heard us coming.

“Oh, thank goodness!” Selina cried, rushing toward me and pulling me into her arms. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

I shook my head, then put my finger over my lips and pointed at Ella, who was still sleeping on Edrick’s shoulder. Selina nodded and wiped her tears away. Edrick took Ella back to her room without a word, leaving me alone with Selina and the maids.

“Moana, what happened?” Amy asked, keeping her voice low. “We were worried sick.”

“I’ll explain everything tomorrow,” I said. “But we’re okay. We’re safe.”

me another tight hug that took me just as much by surprise as the first one. As she hugged me, I couldn’t help but relax a bit into her arms, feeling comforted by the old housekeeper’s touch. When we pulled away, there were tears in both of our eyes. Selina looked like she was about to say something, but she seemed to decide against it and instead simply

and filthy. Mine were just as dirty, no doubt from being dragged at some point while

and laid there motionless in the darkness for a long time, but I knew that neither of us would be able to sleep — and I couldn’t keep my story in any

weeks, I’ve been talking to Olivia; she convinced me that you were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just using me to get

would burst out of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me

do any of those things. In

arms wrap around me and he pulled me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his scent

I made you feel like you needed to run,” he whispered. “I should have been honest with you from the beginning. About everything; Olivia, your lineage, the

shook my head and

his legs over the bed, standing and walking over to the closet. “But it is. All along, I’ve been hiding so much from both you and Ella. It’s time that the truth

he spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp to see him coming back with a shoebox in

fated mate, but I didn’t care. When she got pregnant, I was overjoyed. And when Ella was born, and I held my little girl for the first time, I knew that Olivia was brought into my life specifically to bring Ella into the world. But things got bad after that.” He opened the shoebox to reveal what looked like a bundle of letters folded up, and started to pull them out. There weren’t just letters inside, I realized; there were photos, too. Photos of Olivia with other men, photos of her passed out on the floor, photos taken through windows of her screaming at Edrick and pointing