His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel 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 pried about the pregnancy. Maybe he didn’t actually realize it after all; maybe it was just my nerves getting to me, 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 still have 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 startled awake by the sound of my door flinging open. I gasped and sat up in bed, my eyes wide and still full of tears from before and my heart racing as my fight or flight response kicked in, to see Edrick standing in my doorway.

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

He stormed toward my bed. Selina came rushing in after him, but it was too late; he was already holding 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 felt cornered 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 holding the 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 about the pregnancy. Now, more than ever, I just wanted to abort the pregnancy and be done with it — how could I bring a child into a world where his or her own father treated me like this? He was being erratic and 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 I have the right to know as your employer, especially when it affects your ability to do your goddamn job!”

“Edrick, leave her alone,” Selina insisted. She came over to him and tried to take the bottle of pills from him, 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 his fangs were showing slightly from his anger, and it made my heart race faster than I ever thought it could. I felt like a frightened rabbit in front of the big, bad wolf. Where was Mina when I needed her?