His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story
Chapter 133

Chapter 133

Chapter 133: Pizza Party

Moana

By the time I picked up Ella and took her home, I had almost completely forgotten about the womannamed Olivia who called the orphanage. Ella and I spent the remainder of the afternoon drawing andplaying in the penthouse, and by the time that dinnertime came around, I was too tired and hungry aftermy long day to think about much of anything.

“Let’s get ready for dinner, Ella,” I said. I wasn’t sure what Selina and the maids planned on preparingfor dinner that night, but I looked forward to sitting down and relaxing a bit. I helped Ella clean up hercoloring books and toys, then had her wash her hands and clean herself up before we headed back outto the dining room to eat.

However, when we walked into the dining room, I was surprised to replace that there was no dinner. In fact,when I poked my head into the kitchen, it didn’t seem that Selina and the maids were preparinganything at all. The three of them were seated around the kitchen island with tea and their own meals,but nothing else had been prepared.

I was about to open my mouth to ask if I should prepare something for myself and Ella — which I didn’tmind doing at all — when I suddenly heard the elevator doors open and Edrick’s voice came bellowingthrough the penthouse.

“I brought pizza!” he called. As he spoke, I could already smell it, and my mouth instantly began towater. I hadn’t had pizza in ages, but even more than that, I was surprised to hear that the Alphabillionaire actually bought take-out pizza for dinner.

“Yay! Pizza party!” Ella shouted. She took off running into her bedroom, leaving me standing in themiddle of the dining room with a puzzled expression on my face.

Edrick came in then and set the pizza down on the table. “What are you doing still dressed?” he asked,eyeing me. “Put your pajamas on. It’s time for a pizza party.”

I was utterly shocked. Not only had the maids and Selina not mentioned that we were supposed to behaving a “pizza party” tonight, but I was also shocked to replace that Edrick wanted us to eat in ourpajamas. But before I could ask why, Edrick walked out of the dining room and disappeared into hisown bedroom.

I could only stare at Selina and the maids in shock. Selina chuckled when she saw the confused lookon my face.

“He does this every so often,” she said. “It makes Ella happy.”

“Oh.” I was still taken aback, but it made sense that Edrick might want to make Ella happy after all ofthe stress she’d been through lately. I decided not to question it any further and went to my room to puton a set of pajamas that I felt comfortable wearing in front of everybody, then headed back out to theliving room to see that Edrick and Ella were already seated on the floor in front of the television withplates of pizza in their hands.

“Come sit and grab some pizza,” Edrick said, nodding his head toward a cushion on the floor that heset out for me. “Ella, do you want to pick out a movie?”

As I sat down sheepishly and picked up a plate of cheesy, gooey pizza that made my mouth watereven more, Ella puzzled over which movie to pick until she finally landed on an animated children’smovie with talking animals.

Together, the three of us sat on the floor and watched the movie while we ate pizza. Even though it felta bit awkward at first to do something so casual with the Alpha billionaire, I couldn’t deny the fact that itwas a lot of fun. With my belly full of delicious pizza, there was a bit of a smile on my face as Ioccasionally glanced over at Ella and Edrick sitting together in the dark room with only the glow of the

television to illuminate them. Eventually, we moved from the floor to the couch, and Edrick held Ellatightly in his arms while she watched the movie.

In an odd way, just in the same way that it felt when we hiked together in our casual close, it felt bothstrange and comforting to see this relaxed and playful side of Edrick. I had never seen him do anythingso spontaneous like this, and during those moments, it really did feel like we were a normal little familyenjoying quality time together. I couldn’t help but rest my hand on my belly as we sat and watched themovie, thinking about how we would soon have another addition to our makeshift family for nights likethis, no matter how rare they were. Besides, seeing how sweet and caring Edrick was with Ella warmedmy heart, as I thought about how he would treat our child the same way. Even though our relationshipwas still complicated, it was a relief to know that I was bringing a child into a world with a man whocared so deeply about his children, even though he didn’t seem like the type when I first met him.

I couldn’t help but wonder, though, if he really was like this when I met him and that he just didn’t showit, or if he relaxed more since I met him. Just a few months ago, he was a cold and ruthless Alphabillionaire who seemed to spend all of his time working and hardly paid any attention to Ella. But now,here he was, spontaneously bringing home pizza and watching children’s movies on the couch in hispajamas. Not only that, but to think about how sweet he had been when he took us to the mountainestate, even though it wound up going wrong in the end, made me think even more that the Alpha CEOwas becoming more and more of a family man by the day. And in a lot of ways, it made me feel safe inknowing that I made the right decision to keep our baby and stay here with him and Ella.

At one point, I must have spent too much time looking over at Edrick in the darkness, watching howhandsome his face looked even in the dim blue glow of the television, and he seemed to notice melooking. He glanced over at me, but I didn’t look away at first, and we held our gaze for a long fewmoments.

During those moments, I felt Mina reacting strongly inside of me. I knew that she wanted me to getcloser to Edrick, but at the same time, I still felt too confused by what our relationship had become tofeel completely comfortable just yet — so I quickly looked away, hoping that he didn’t see how red myface became during those moments.

By the time the movie ended, Ella was half asleep with her belly full of pizza. Edrick carried her to bed,and I couldn’t help but follow behind when he disappeared into her room. Through the crack in thedoor, I watched as he laid her down in her bed and pulled the covers up to her chin.

“Daddy?” Ella asked, her tiny voice sleepy.

“Yes, Princess?” he asked.

Ella yawned. “Can we have more pizza parties?”

Edrick paused. I felt my heart flutter to see this interaction between father and daughter, and felt myheart flutter even more at his response.

“Sure, Princess,” he said gently, kissing her forehead. “We can have lots of pizza parties from now on.You, me, and Moana.