Chapter 29: The Unexpected Alpha Philanthropist
Moana

My trance with the TV was broken by the sound of Selina’s voice coming from beside me.

“Interesting,” she said, wiping her hands on her apron. “That’s more than I expected.”

I turned to face her, still surprised by Edrick’s sudden act of generosity. “He doesn’t do things like this often, does he?” I asked.

Selina shrugged. “Every so often. It’s usually once a year or so these past few years, but it’s never made public, and it’s rarely this much. I wonder what changed to make him donate such a large amount and for him to allow it to be televised.”

“And to an orphanage, no less,” Lily chimed in from behind me.

Shrugging again, Selina turned around and started to head back to the kitchen. I followed her, still curious about the situation. “You said it’s been happening just for the past few years?” I asked.

damp sponge that it was making the metal racks on the inside of the oven rattle. “If you’re really all that interested, you can look online. I’m sure there are some websites that will tell you

interview with Sophia ended on the TV while I was in the kitchen, so now Ella was flipping absentmindedly through the channels as she searched for cartoons.

me. I hadn’t realized it, but she must have grown bored of flipping through the television channels and was now hanging over the back of the couch, watching as I scrolled through

phone and grabbing her, pulling her onto my lap and beginning to tickle

with the sweet sounds of the little girl’s giggles, but I couldn’t quite shake the feeling in my mind that Edrick’s newfound “compassion” was all just

if he did, I wondered if he wouldn’t want to sleep together after

in his pajamas, and stormed over to the other side of the bed without a word. I could

he sat on the edge of the bed. “Something about a billionaire CEO donating a hefty sum of money

His tone of voice

that just yesterday you thought that compassion was pointless,

and philanthropy are two different things,” Edrick interrupted. “I have to do certain things sometimes to

working on my most recent

sounds in the room were the sounds of the city below, which was nothing but white noise to me after growing up in the

of a

the factories think that they’re not treated as equally as their werewolf counterparts,” he said. “It’s absurd, really. I’ve always tried my best to be fair to everyone in my company. And now the media is trying to contact my PR department in order to

to look over at Edrick.

“It’s the

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