His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 121

#Chapter 121: Unwanted Attention

Moana

I was still completely and utterly shocked that Edrick announced that we were in a relationship on live television. Even long after Selina shut off the TV and ordered the maids to return to their work, and even after I woke Ella up and got her ready for the day, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

In some ways, I was elated that Edrick announced that I was his “secret fiancee”, since it meant that he may have been slowly coming around to the idea that we could be together. However, I still didn’t know exactly what all of this meant.

Would we only be in a fake relationship?

If this really did only ever turn out to be a fake publicity stunt, I couldn’t help but wonder if it would only cause more confusion and pain. Our relationship was already rocky enough as it currently stood; even though Edrick knew that I was a werewolf now, I could still tell that he had hangups about real marriage. Not only that, but I didn’t even know if we were mates. If Mina never fully emerged, then becoming true mates wouldn’t even be possible. That was why so many wolfless adults wound up being shunned by the majority of the werewolf world; obviously, there were countless other reasons for it as well, but one of the major reasons was that wolfless adults couldn’t create a mate bond. Therefore, werewolves who did have their wolves wouldn’t want to waste their time trying to bond with someone who could never feel the same way.

Aside from that, the thought of only ever being a fake wife made me uneasy. I wanted to be with someone who loved me and devoted themselves to me and our child, not someone who only pretended to be in love with me to keep the media from creating negative news articles about us. The whole thing felt somewhat fishy, and I couldn’t decide by that point if I should have just been happy that this potentially meant that Edrick wouldn’t marry someone else and make our home life confusing for our baby and Ella, or if I should try to find out what his true intentions were.

Either way, I was completely confused.

…

Later that evening, after putting Ella to bed, Edrick still wasn’t home. I couldn’t sleep after everything that happened that day, so I sat on the couch and looked at my phone to pass the time until Edrick got home.

However, I quickly realized that I made a mistake when I started looking at social media.

My eyes widened as I began to read all of the posts made about Edrick and I.

Somehow, within mere hours of Edrick announcing our fake relationship, there were already hundreds — if not thousands — of posts about us. And the more I read, the more I began to realize that the majority of those posts were distinctly not positive.

In fact, the majority of those posts were extremely negative.

I couldn’t help but feel incredibly sad after that. Would my baby only ever be viewed as an impediment to other women’s chances to be with the Alpha billionaire? Even more so, would my baby be in danger with so many women being furious about my “relationship” with Edrick, regardless of whether it was real or fake?

Suddenly, I wished that I had simply stepped away from all of this as soon as I found out that I was pregnant. Maybe I should have taken Michael’s offer and used the money to move to another city; but at the same time, I couldn’t deny the fact that I enjoyed being near Edrick and Ella, and even Selina and the maids. In a way, this place had become my home, and these people had become my family. Even after just a couple of months of living here, I already couldn’t imagine living somewhere else. But the stress of the public finding out about our “relationship” still made me rethink whether or not this was a safe situation, not only for myself, but also for my baby.

I tried to read a little to pass the time after I shut my phone off, but I found myself unable to focus with my mind racing, so I finally gave in and closed my eyes as I laid on the couch.

Finally, a little while later, I heard the elevator doors open. I quickly jerked my head up and peered over the back of the couch to see Edrick stepping into the foyer.

He didn’t see me at first. During those moments, as I watched him take off his jacket and his shoes, I swore I saw a slight smile faintly flickering across his lips. I couldn’t help but wonder if he was smiling about his announcement earlier.

And even the thought of his announcement making him happy enough to smile made my heart flutter.