Elijah POV.
That night, Elijah personally put Michaela to bed. Witnessing her peaceful slumber brought a sense of calm, contrasting with his own inner turmoil. As he made his way back to his room, consumed by doubts about whether Joana was deceiving him, he couldn't shake the feeling of suspicion towards his daughter's nanny.
The persistent notion that Joana might be pregnant with his brother's child lingered in Elijah's mind. Recalling her recent dinner with his brother and their frequent encounters, he entertained the unsettling possibility that Joana's motive for accepting the job was to elevate her social status, culminating in a pregnancy from his brother. While he desired to dismiss these suspicions and attribute Joana's condition to mere illness and slight weight gain, an underlyi
