His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story
Chapter 60

Chapter 60

Chapter 60: The Billionaire’s Baby

Moana

I had just begun to drift off to sleep. Somehow, I had made it through the gala, and Edrick hadn’t priedabout the pregnancy. Maybe he didn’t actually realize it after all; maybe it was just my nerves getting tome, and the Edrick I saw that night was only him being his usual abrasive and cold self.

As I began to fade off into sleep, the tears on my cheek drying, I felt much more at peace. I would stillhave to make a decision soon, but at least I could do it in my own time.

Oh, how wrong I was!

I must not have been asleep for more than ten minutes at the most when I was suddenly startledawake by the sound of my door flinging open. I gasped and sat up in bed, my eyes wide and still full oftears from before and my heart racing as my fight or flight response kicked in, to see Edrick standing inmy doorway.

“Edrick…?” I said, clutching my chest with my hand as my heart pounded. “What are you doing in myroom like this?”

He stormed toward my bed. Selina came rushing in after him, but it was too late; he was alreadyholding the bottle of pregnancy vitamins in front of my face.

“If you have something to tell me, now is the time to do it,” he growled.

I opened my mouth to speak, but nothing came out. The lump in my throat was too large, and I feltcornered and helpless. When I looked up at Edrick, his eyes were glowing slightly. He was breathing

heavily through his nose while his free hand was placed firmly on his hip. The hand that was holdingthe bottle of pills was trembling slightly, creating a soft rattling sound from the pills moving inside.

“I– I don’t–”

“Go on,” Edrick snarled, shaking the bottle again. His eyes burned with fury as he stared intently at me,as though doing so would make me feel even remotely comfortable enough to tell him the truth aboutthe pregnancy. Now, more than ever, I just wanted to abort the pregnancy and be done with it — howcould I bring a child into a world where his or her own father treated me like this? He was being erraticand frightening, barging into my room like this in the middle of the night.

He smelled like whiskey, too.

“Have you been drinking again?” I asked, scooting away from him on the bed.

“Oh, don’t try to twist it around on me,” he replied. “Just tell me what it is you’ve been hiding. I think Ihave the right to know as your employer, especially when it affects your ability to do your goddamnjob!”

“Edrick, leave her alone,” Selina insisted. She came over to him and tried to take the bottle of pills fromhim, but he wrenched his arm away and only fumed even harder.

“I’m giving you a chance here, Moana,” he said through his teeth. As he spoke, I could see that hisfangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought itcould. I felt like a frightened rabbit in front of the big, bad wolf. Where was Mina when I needed her?

I still couldn’t answer.

Finally, Edrick seemed to become too impatient to wait for my response, because he threw the bottle ofpills down on my bed and glared at me with an intensity that I had never seen before.

“Fine then,” he snarled, curling up his fists into balls. “If you don’t want to tell me the truth, and youwant to sit here and lie to me after I’ve given you a home and a decent salary, then you can leave. Iwant you gone within the month.”

My eyes widened. I felt a pang in my stomach, and it made me want to vomit. I was pregnant with hisbaby, and yet here he was, accosting me in the middle of the night and telling me to get out. He wassending me back to the streets, where I would certainly become homeless, and would potentially evenlose the baby.

“W-Why?” I asked, crawling out from underneath my blankets and standing too quickly. As I stood, Isuddenly felt lightheaded. Selina, seeing this, rushed over to me and held my arm to steady me. I sunkback down to sit on the edge of the bed, and when my eyes refocused, I looked up to see Edrick stillstanding there with fury written across his face. “Why are you doing this?” I asked again. My voice wassoft and meek, and quivered slightly from the tears that threatened to come out.

Edrick sneered. “I know you’ve been hiding a pregnancy,” he said. “A little werewolf, hm? Tell me, wasthis your scheme all along? A way to get money or climb the social ranks? A way to go from a lowlyhuman orphan who can’t even get a job to a woman of high standing with a werewolf child?”

I wanted to tell him that I wasn’t even a human, that I had already shown signs of my own wolfemerging, but I didn’t. I couldn’t. Before I could say anything, he continued.

“See if the father will accept the baby,” he said, his voice low and sinister. “You might think he’ssomeone who would, but I can guarantee he won’t. I told you that he’s not who you think he is, but youdidn’t listen. No, you went and got yourself knocked up with his child, and he’s going to laugh you backout into the streets when you try to go to him and ask for a place to stay.”

I frowned then. Who was he referring to? Was it Ethan?

“Edrick,” I said, “who do you think the father is?”

Edrick let out a short, sharp breath that sounded like a laugh. “Who else would it be if not Ethan?” hesnarled.

I went silent for a moment, puzzling over how he had come to that conclusion. Ethan and I were justfriends — hadn’t I made that clear to him? Aside from the brief moment at the family banquet that therewas a bit of chemistry between us, I had never once thought about going so far as to sleep withEdrick’s own brother. I wasn’t a cheap w***e who would do something like that!

I opened my mouth to tell Edrick that I had never slept with his brother, but before it could come out, hecontinued.

“Now,” he said, “like I told you, you have until the end of the month to get your things and get out. Idon’t want to see you anymore, hear from you anymore, and I especially don’t want you hangingaround my dau–”

“It’s your baby!” I finally blurted out, surprising even myself from my sudden outburst. My eyes widenedas I looked back at Edrick, who took a staggering step backwards. Beside me, Selina whisperedsomething to herself and took a deep breath, clutching the bedpost at the foot of my bed.

The room, which had just been full of anger, was now filled with nothing but shocked, disbelievingsilence from Selina, Edrick, and even myself.