His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story
Chapter 157

Chapter 157

Moana

“He has it.” My wolf’s voice was steady and even-toned, but also agitated. “Check his pockets.”

I immediately trusted Mina’s instincts. She was too sure of it for me to even begin to question it, andshe had never been wrong about these sorts of things before. And besides, by now I had spent so longfrantically searching the apartment for my tooth that I was desperate. It was the only physical thing Ihad that was linking me to my past and my lineage. If I didn’t have that tooth, I felt lost, and I felt asthough I might never replace my parents or at least replace out who they were.

“Show me what’s in your pocket,” I growled, holding my hand out flat as I glared up at Edrick withnarrowed eyes.

Edrick looked taken aback.

“Why?” he asked, sounding a bit confused. He seemed innocent, but my wolf was insistent that he hadmy tooth. And I could sense it, too. The way that Edrick’s eyes widened for just a split second as Istormed up to him told me everything that I needed to know.

“You know why,” I replied. “I have a feeling that you took something of mine without permission.”

Edrick stared at me for a while, but I only stared back with my hand still outstretched. He had the tooth;I could sense it.

And I was right. Finally, with a sigh, Edrick reached into his pocket and retrieved the tooth. He placed itin my hand, and my fingers instantly curled around it as my eyes widened with a combination of angerand confusion.

“W-Why did you take it?” I asked, still gripping it tightly in my hand. “You should have asked first.”

Edrick looked a little embarrassed, and for a few moments he stared at the floor, chewing the inside ofhis cheek before he finally looked back up at me and let out another sigh. “I’m sorry,” he said quietly. “Ijust kept getting a feeling about it. I wanted to see if it was a real Alpha tooth, so I took it to a friend ofmine to run some tests on it.”

I was still shocked by this. Why would Edrick need to know whether the tooth belonged to an Alpha ornot? It wasn’t his tooth, and therefore it wasn’t really any of his business whether it was an Alpha toothor not. Not only that, but he should have asked me. If he really was that interested in my lineage, hecould have included me in these tests. I would have been curious to know, too.

But then, as I stared up at Edrick with surprise, my eyes widened even further as I rememberedsomething. During my conversation with Olivia earlier that day, she had said that Edrick’s only goal wasto produce the ultimate Alpha heir to take over someday as the next CEO of WereCorp. He wasn’tinterested in having a loving relationship with a woman or with his child; he was only interested incontinuing his legacy. If he was really that concerned as to whether my wolf tooth belonged to an Alphaor not, then that only solidified what she told me.

If my baby wasn’t one hundred percent Alpha, did that mean that Edrick would potentially leave us bothout on the street?

“Daddy!” Ella suddenly called from behind. I quickly pocketed the tooth and turned to see Ella runningtoward Edrick with a grin on her face and her arms outstretched. “I shifted all on my own at trainingtoday! I didn’t need any help at all!”

“Hey there, Princess,” Edrick said, crouching down to her level with a warm and loving smile on hisface, causing his gray eyes to shine in the sunlight that was streaming in through the living roomwindow. “Did you really, now? All by yourself?”

“Mhm! The teacher told me to try it, and I did it! I did what the teacher taught me before, about taking adeep breath and letting my wolf borrow my energy… Like this!” Ella suddenly took a big, deep breathand squeezed her eyes shut, and as she did, her ears began to grow more pointed and her fingernailsbegan to extend; the first signs of her shifting. Edrick and I both gasped as she started to shift, and Itook a few steps backwards and clamped my hand over my heart. Even a little werewolf that was onlyElla’s size could wreak havoc indoors, and children were notorious for not controlling their wolves verywell when they shifted. If she shifted indoors, it could be a bit of a disaster.

“No shifting in the house, Ella!” Edrick suddenly said, scooping her up off of the ground and tossing herin the air playfully, causing her to open her eyes and giggle before she shifted. Her ears returned totheir normal state and her claws retracted, and I watched as Edrick kept tossing her in the air with agrin on his face, causing her little laughs to float through the room like the sound of angels.

As I watched this, I found myself almost forgetting all about the incident with the tooth. Seeing Edricklike this only made me think that there was no way that Olivia was right; Edrick clearly loved Ella morethan anything, and the way that he laughed and played with her only proved it. He was now zoomingaround the room with her on his back, both of their arms outstretched as he made airplane noises, andI couldn’t help but laugh along with Ella.

Seeing Edrick’s kind hearted nature toward Ella made me realize that maybe I shouldn’t have been soquick to trust Olivia. I still didn’t know for sure if she was Ella’s biological mother. For all I knew, shewas just an actress sent by Michael or Kelly to throw me off and make me paranoid around Edrick.Both of them clearly wanted me to stay away from Edrick so badly that I wouldn’t have put it past themat this point to work together to do something like that, and it would have been too easy for them to getinside my head and make me hate Edrick.

After that, I realized that maybe I overreacted a bit with Edrick. When he finally set Ella down and senther off to help Selina and the maids set the table for dinner, he slowly turned back to face me with an

apologetic and almost sheepish look in his eyes that told me that maybe his intentions were morecurious than sinister.

“I really am sorry,” he said quietly, sticking his hands in his pockets. The sunlight shined in through theopen window as the sun slowly sank below the horizon, causing a halo of light to beam around him. Helooked so handsome in this light that, even after how upset I had been earlier, I wished that I could kisshim.

I quickly averted my gaze as I felt my face flush from looking at him, and shrugged.

“Just… Ask me before you do things like that,” I replied softly. “You’ve said so yourself that you deserveto know the truth as the father of my baby, and I think that I deserve the same respect as the mother ofyour baby, too.”

Edrick nodded, and when I met his gaze his eyes were soft and full of regret.

“I won’t do something like that again,” he said. “I promise.”