The Alpha’s Nanny (Lori and Gabriel) novel Chapter 5

She rang the doorbell twice before someone came to the door. Mrs Fuller opened the door. She was wearing a large grey cardigan and sweatpants.

"What do you want?"

She said harshly as she tried to close the door.

"Please wait! Just hear me out!"

Lori begged.

"I just, I need to see him... I woke up and they said you had taken him..."

"See him?!"

Mrs Fuller scoffed, retying her robe with anger.

"You are not his mother. You relinquished your rights to him remember?"

Lori nodded.

"I know. I know I did that. But please, can you just let me know where he's buried? I just.. I just want to say goodbye."

"Goodbye?!"

Mr Fuller appeared from behind, there was a scowl on his face. He must have been listening in on their conversation.

"You don't even deserve that! You don't deserve anything. You put his life in jeopardy!"

"Tom."

Mrs Fuller murmured but he ignored his wife.

"You're the fucking reason he's dead!"

Mr Fuller shouted.

Lori swallowed hard.

She wiped away the tears on her face.

"Please. I'm begging you."

"You don't deserve anything from us."

"After all we've done for you."

"This is the end. If you come here again I'll have you arrested for trespassing."

Mr Fuller said as he slammed the door shut.

Lori stood outside, waiting, hoping they would come back. They didn't.

Slowly she left their front porch, walking slowly towards the street.

She would try again. she wouldn't give up. As many times as it took her to.

Lori had gone to bed angry and sad. She dreamt again of a crying baby, a baby in a crib that she tried to reach and couldn't reach.

She woke up in a fright, sweaty and panting all over.

After that, it was hard to fall asleep. She pumped some milk and lay on her bed awake, with her eyes wide open.

She went to work as usual, forgetting the contract on her coffee table. Work went by in a drawl, barely anything memorable happened.

When she got back from work and saw the contract on the coffee table she sighed and picked it up.

She looked at the contract again, this time, taking time out to read it word for word and looked at the business card that it came with. Gabriel Caine. CEO Caine Inc.

Lori opened up her laptop and decided to look him up, while putting a pot on the stove for some ramen. She didn't remember eating anything all afternoon. Only some eggs for breakfast and coffee at the diner.

Gabriel Caine, his name, image and several article links popped up.

He was twenty eight years old. CEO of Caine Inc, a multi billionaire conglomerate. He came from a large distinguished family. Unfortunately his parents were no more. But his grandfather who was around ninety seven years was still alive. He had no siblings, he was an only child but he had a lot of cousins so it seemed.

He had business everywhere in America and Europe. He had taken over the company at the early age of twenty. He didn't finish school until three years later. There was no news about his daughter, he must have kept her away from the media then.

His pictures popped up. He was often seen with prominent rich people, and there were claims he was part of the rumoured cult group The Lords.

The Lords was a cult, an elite group made up of only prominent figures all around the world. Though its members didn't affirm or deny the fact that it was a cult, it was said that they held meetings at different secret locations all around the world. No one knew what they did, or why they were formed, but they seemed to be a very powerful group.

Conspiracy theories had speculated that they were Satanist or part of the infamous illuminati but Lori didn't care much for those. Whatever they were and whatever people thought of them, they were a revered cult.

Even though Gabriel Caine's life was in the public eye, there was very little about his personal life online. He seemed to seclude himself, living in private and secret locations that were deep in the woods and out of reach to normal people. That was the only aspect of him that seemed strange to Lori.

Lori picked up her phone and dialled the number in the business card.

She was taking the job.

He picked up after the first ring.

"Ms Wyatt?"

He said and Lori's eyes widened.

"How? How do you know that it's me?"

She asked and he seemed to chuckle.

"I have been expecting your call."

He said.

"So what's it going to be Ms Wyatt? Are you taking my offer?"

Lori took a deep breath and the sighed.

"Yes. I am."

She answered..

"Excellent. You resume right away. Please pack your things, my driver will come pick you up in an hour."

He said and Lori nodded.

Immediately she dropped off the call she went to her small bedroom.

There was a suitcase she had pushed under the bed, she knelt down and pulled it out.

She dusted the suitcase and opened it up on her bed.

She went back to the kitchen to switch off her stove. She was too excited to eat.

At least for now.

She packed her good clothes, all the ones she would need and a few of her shoes. There was nothing much in her fridge, but she put the frozen bags of milk she had and arranged them into the cooler with ice on it.

Then she tidied up her apartment, throwing away the things she didn't need and the things that would get spoiled if left alone for too long. She was taking out the trash when she spotted a black car waiting in front of her apartment complex. the driver approached her.

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