Chapter 6 Another One Bites The Dust

Moana

I stood frozen in the middle of the living room, my back turned to the door as I heard footsteps approaching. How did this happen? How did I wind up finally becoming employed, only for it to turn out that my new employer was the same person who I had a one night stand with just two nights ago?

The footsteps came closer. I felt like a deer in headlights.

“Good evening, Miss Moana,” that all-too-familiar voice said from behind me. “Can we speak privately for a minute?”

I slowly turned around to face Edrick Morgan, the handsome and wealthy werewolf CEO, the extremely well-known public figure, the man who I had slept with two nights ago… The man who tried to throw money at my feet like I was a prostitute.

He stood in front of me with Ella in his arms, the perfect picture of a loving father.

then gestured for me to follow him; as I did,

it from my tour with Ella earlier. It had enormous bookshelves lining the walls that rose all the way to the ceiling, with a large carved stone fireplace and two tall, arched windows. There was a mahogany desk in the middle of the room and a small seating area by the fireplace. At the time that Ella showed me this room, I had found it stunningly beautiful. Now, it felt like

by the

“I knew it was you

my eyebrows together. “What do you

be stubborn, but I’m not completely detached from the hiring

a beggar. Like I was a…” I lowered my voice so Ella couldn’t hear. “…a prostitute. And now you give

you wouldn’t take the money I tried to give you after our one night stand, because apparently your pride is more important than paying your rent. I may seem like an arrogant asshole

him, clenching my fists. “I passed that interview fair and square,” I said. “Why are you making it out like I’m a…

“Oh, please. Your application was tossed into the reject pile the first day you sent

spoke. Was this all I was? A charity case? A pathetic example of someone who was just supposed

who complained that his one night stand was just after him for money, it’s awfully convenient that you would suddenly want me

“You know the stipulations of the clauses. And I highly doubt you have the courage to break

both looked up to see Ella standing in the doorway, tears streaming down her

steal my daddy away,” she snarled. Even from where I stood, I could see her little

“Ella–”

had shifted from cold to concerned in a matter of moments. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” I said, walking

out of Edrick’s office and found Ella’s room, but the

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