His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story
Chapter 117

Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Something Special

Edrick

As I held the tooth in my hand, I instantly knew that there was something special about it. It wascertainly an Alpha tooth, but it was so much more than that at the same time. I couldn’t explain it, norcould I quite put my finger on what was so special about it, but I somehow knew that there wassomething different about this tooth.

Maybe it was just wishful thinking, but the more I thought about all of Moana’s strange abilities, thesignificant delay in her wolf emerging, and now the tooth, I couldn’t help but wonder…

Was Moana the Golden Wolf?

I couldn’t be sure. All I knew was that there was something special about Moana — something that shedidn’t even know yet herself. I was determined to replace out, so that day, I decided that I would have to dosome research on it. I would have to do it secretly, too, because Moana could be in danger if she wasthe Golden Wolf.

There was one thing I knew for certain, though: Moana was, without a doubt, my fated mate. I knewthat now that I had fully experienced her scent. Even though I was ecstatic about this discovery, Icouldn’t tell Moana. Not only was her own wolf still too weak to realize that my wolf was her fated mate,but I wasn’t planning on marking my fated mate and making her my wife. My parents are fated mates,but my father cheated again and again, and even brought Ethan home one day. My mother wasmentally affected by their mate bond and had to accept everything. How could I trust a bond like this? Iwas unsure as to whether I could bring myself to potentially break Moana’s heart if that infidelity ran inmy blood.

I couldn’t tell anyone about that yet, either. Being an Alpha mate as a human also could attract toomuch attention right away, and if Moana was indeed the Golden Wolf, then unwanted attention couldbe dangerous. A lot of people — people who hated the idea of a new age during which humans andwerewolves could live in harmony — believed that the Golden Wolf should have been hunted andexecuted. Even though I was on the fence about my feelings toward humans up until I met Moana, Inever particularly sided with those who believed that humans should be slaves, or worse, victims ofg******e. In a way, I was excited at the idea of the Golden Wolf being alive; I wouldn’t particularly mindseeing more harmony between the two races.

But either way, I still couldn’t be sure about any of this. I would have to do some research of my ownbefore I jumped to any conclusions, which was why I simply told Moana that the tooth belonged to anAlpha. That seemed to satisfy her for the time being, and now I could just let myself be happy that I hadfound my fated mate.

By the end of that day, however, it seemed that my happiness always needed to have some sort ofcaveat; and that caveat was that somehow, the paparazzi managed to get pictures of Moana and Ientering the hospital the day before, covered in dirt and mud — with no masks on, of course.

I saw the photos initially start to pop up on social media with all sorts of speculative captions andcomments. People wondered if Moana was my secret wife, whether she was a human surrogate andthat I secretly had a different werewolf wife, and why we were covered in mud. By then, it was alreadytoo late; the damage was done, and I would just have to live with it. There was no one to pay off for thepictures, and now that it was the second time that photos were revealed of Moana and I, there wasnothing I could do at this point.

And of course, lo and behold, my phone rang that night.

It was Kelly.

“I hope you’re calling to beg for forgiveness,” I said when I answered, feeling my blood already begin toboil just thinking about how Kelly nearly got the mother of my child killed for a “prank”.

“Listen, I really am sorry,” Kelly replied, although she didn’t sound all that sorry at all. “But I saw thepictures from yesterday, and your father is really angry now.”

“Yeah?” I growled. “And?”

Kelly paused. I could practically hear her licking her lips on the other side of the phone.

“And,” she continued, “I really think you should reconsider my offer to come out as your Alpha fianceeand Ella’s biological mother. We could easily play off the Moana situation by saying that she’s a familymember that you’ve been caring for. Besides, no one would question you again if you have a fiancee.In fact, I could even be your real fiancee, if you’d want—”

“Oh my god, Kelly!” I shouted, not caring that I was raising my voice as I realized exactly what she haddone now. “You just can’t stop, can you? You can’t even give it two days after you nearly got the motherof my child killed before you’re onto the next scheme. What, did you pay the paparazzi to take thosephotos? I know you did.”

“No, Edrick, I—”

“I don’t want to hear excuses anymore, Kelly,” I growled. “You’re lucky I’m not suing you for what youdid to Moana. In fact, you could be in prison right now. I’m sure you’d get along really well in there withall of the other psychopaths.”

Before Kelly could answer, I abruptly hung up the phone. I sank down into my office chair and buriedmy head in my hands, sulking. I knew I should have sent Kelly to the police… But honestly, she mighthave just paid them off, anyway. I would have to figure out another way to punish her for the way sheacted, but for now, I had bigger fish to fry.

I wasn’t sure how long I sat there, fuming with my head in my hands. All I knew was that my phonebegan to ring sometime later.

I cursed under my breath and looked at my phone, expecting it to be Kelly — but it wasn’t. It was myfather.

“Of course,” I whispered under my breath as I stared at the phone screen. They were certainly workingtogether. My father had been harassing me about marrying Kelly for years, and now they both felt theneed to torture me on the same night. In fact, I wouldn’t have even been surprised at this point to replaceout that he conspired with Kelly to have Moana nearly killed by Rogues. It didn’t even seem like a prankat this point; it seemed like a failed murder attempt.

“What do you want?” I growled as I picked up the phone.

Of course, my father wasted no time. Of course he didn’t care that Moana nearly died. I could havedied too if there had been more Rogues in that alleyway, but he probably wouldn’t have cared then,either.

“It’s time for you to make a decision, Edrick,” Michael said, his voice stony and indifferent. “Kelly is agood woman from a wealthy Alpha family. She’ll provide far more for you than that human girl ever will.”

“Kelly won’t provide me with anything except headaches,” I responded. “You only care about what shecan provide for WereCorp.”

My father paused and sucked his teeth. “That is true,” he finally replied. “I don’t want to see our familybusiness go down the drain because of your stupid mistakes. Our stocks are already in declinebecause you can’t seem to screw your head on straight.”

I didn’t know what to say. Of course I couldn’t correct my father and tell him yet that Moana was notonly a werewolf, but possibly also the Golden Wolf; my father was one of the people who would havewanted the Golden Wolf killed. I bit the inside of my cheek, thinking, before I finally answered.

“I’ll handle it, dad,” I said, trying my best to control my temper.

“Handle it by the end of the week,” he responded coldly. “If you don’t…”

“I will,” I growled. Without another word, I hung up the phone.

I hated to be ordered to do anything, especially by my father, but I would have to replace a solution as soonas I could.