Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Chapter 197

#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.”

hushed her and sent them both off to her room. Selina left, too, but not before giving 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

were torn and filthy. Mine were just as

us spoke as we cleaned ourselves off and changed into clean pajamas. We climbed into bed 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

I stared up at the ceiling. “This is all my fault. For weeks, I’ve been talking to Olivia; she convinced me that you were going to

entire time I felt as though my heart would burst out of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me or kick

those things. In fact, he did quite the

and he pulled me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his scent enveloping me. He stayed silent for a long time after

been honest with you from the beginning. About everything; Olivia, your lineage, the serum.

I shook my head and looked

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.

turned on the bedside lamp to see him coming back with a shoebox in

his tired face. “She’s a liar. I’m sorry that she manipulated you; there was a point in time when she manipulated me, too. She had me convinced that we would live a happy life together and that she loved me. I knew that she wasn’t my 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

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