Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Nanny and the Alpha Daddy
#Chapter 229: The Truth
Edrick

I stayed up almost all night thinking about things.

Moana was right about Ella needing to know the truth about her mother. Especially if bad things were about to happen, I felt as though I needed to finally tell her everything. And besides, Moana was angry with me; maybe this would remind her that I wasn’t all that bad, and that I was trying my best.

“Ella, can you come here, please?”

Ella sighed and pushed her chair back, causing it to scrape against the floor in an unpleasant way. She was upset with me, too, because she didn’t understand why we had to leave the penthouse so suddenly. But nonetheless, she came over to me and sat in my lap.

I caught a glimpse of Moana standing in the kitchen. Her green eyes met mine, and as I held Ella, I saw them soften as they looked at the two of us.

“Ella, there’s something that I haven’t told you. And I think you deserve to know the truth.”

“What is it?” Ella asked, looking up at me with a pout on her face.

I took a sharp breath. I wasn’t mentally prepared to have this conversation, but it needed to be done.

“Ella…” I saw Moana lingering in the doorway. It seemed as though she didn’t want to make it too obvious that she was listening, but if I was being honest, I wanted her here by my side for this. I just hoped that Ella would understand why I kept the truth from her for so long… And I hoped that she wouldn’t resent me.

“Daddy? What is it?” Ella was getting impatient, and looked up at me with wide eyes.

I sighed. “I haven’t been telling you the truth,” I finally said. “Your mom… Your real mom… She isn’t dead. Actually, she’s alive. The reason why I told you all this time that your mom isn’t alive anymore is because she isn’t very nice. See, when you were born, she didn’t want you. Or me.”

widened. “Really?” she asked

life. She doesn’t feel things the way the rest of us do. When

of the corner of my eye standing in the kitchen doorway, but I

But I kept going.

life, I decided to send her away. That’s why it

because sometimes, adults don’t

my eyes go a little wide at Ella’s wise words, and I nodded. “That’s exactly it. When you’re little, like you are, you think that you’ll have everything figured

seemed to be processing. I heard a sniff from the doorway, and looked up to see Selina dabbing at her eyes with her apron and

“Daddy?” Ella finally asked.

“Yes, Princess?”

took in a deep breath. “I think I already sort of knew that my

“What are you talking

shrugged. “I don’t know. Sometimes, when I’m dreaming at night, I have dreams about what it was like when I was a baby, before I could remember things. And one time, I had a dream that you and my real mommy were fighting, and you told her to leave and not come back and hurt us anymore. That’s what

aback. That was exactly what I had said to Olivia

money, and get out! I don’t want you to

rushing back like a train hitting me. I felt my heart practically stop, and all

that Ella would have stronger powers than the other kids. She was an Alpha, after all, and it seemed now that she had the

was probably only showing itself in sporadic dreams like that. But maybe, when she was older, it would manifest more solidly. Powers like that sometimes dissipated as kids

But I kept going.

mom was just using you and me to get money and a fancy life, I decided to send her away.