Chapter 38: Official Termination of the Supplemental
Agreement

Moana

Edrick and I quickly pulled away from each other, rushing to fix ourselves. I pulled my nightgown back down around my legs and tied my robe around myself, fixing my hair while Edrick quickly buckled his belt once more.

“Hello?” Ella called again. “It’s okay, Princess,” Edrick called, steadying his heavy breathing. “You can come in.”

Ella cracked the door open and poked her head in. Her hair was a mess and her eyelids drooped sleepily as she rubbed them and yawned, but there was also a hint of fear and sadness on her teary-eyed face. She looked as though she had been crying — I couldn’t quite tell if it was from the sound of Edrick and I fighting or from a bad dream. Maybe both. “I had a bad dream, Moana,” she said quietly and tearfully. “I came to look for you, but it sounds like you’re fighting…” Her tiny voice was quivering so much that it made my heart ache.

“What? No,” I said, rushing over to her and crouching to her level. “Your daddy and I were just talking.”

“Oh. I thought I heard yelling.”

“We just got excited, that’s all,” I said softly, standing and guiding the tired little girl out of the room. “Come on. Let’s get you to bed.”

I led Ella back to her room by her hand and laid her down in bed. “Why was my daddy in your room?” she asked as I tucked her in.

Shaking my head, I reached out and brushed a bit of hair out of her face. “He just needed to talk to me. You don’t have to worry about a thing, understand?”

Ella nodded her head. I kissed her forehead and tucked her in a bit tighter before turning to go back to my room, but before I could, a tiny hand shot out and grabbed my nightgown. As I turned back to face her, I saw that there were still tears in my eyes.

“Will you stay with me?”

was still expecting me to sleep with him, this could only cause more trouble… But at the same time, I thought that both Edrick and I knew that sleeping together would also only cause more unnecessary trouble — and my job, first and foremost, was to take care of Ella above

of the bed and climbing under

seemed dead asleep from her late night, so I let her sleep in and

the night before, but he wasn’t. Nevertheless, it was Sunday, and I knew that I would likely be seeing him that morning. My heart beat heavily in my chest as I got ready for the day

was waiting for me. He was sitting at the small round table by the big window in the living room with a cup of coffee and a newspaper in his

was even awake so early after how drunk he was the night before. Did he even sleep

coldly stood and gathered up his coffee and his newspaper. “Come to my study,” he said before brusquely turning on his heel and storming

the night before during our argument, but I didn’t really mean it; I had been drinking a bit, too, and said some things during the heat of the argument that I now

I was told and swallowed the lump in my throat, formulating a potential speech in my head that

behind me as I sat and Edrick walked across the room. He calmly set his coffee cup down

The words floated out of my mouth so rapidly that it almost didn’t feel like I

even without you there,” Edrick interrupted. His voice was just as cold and ruthless as the day I met him, nothing at all like the man I had seen in the orphanage as we baked cookies together.

I had Ella snugglad tightly into my arms. Sha still saamad daad aslaap from har lata night, so I lat har slaap in and quiatly crawlad out of bad bafora slipping out of har room and back into mina

baan tha night bafora, but ha wasn’t. Navarthalass, it was Sunday, and I knaw that I would likaly

sitting at tha small round tabla by tha big window in tha living room with a cup

how drunk ha was tha night bafora. Did ha avan slaap at all?

Edrick coldly stood and gatharad up his coffaa and his nawspapar. “Coma to my study,” ha said bafora brusqualy

as I followad him. Was ha going to fira ma? I had mantionad quitting tha night bafora during our argumant, but I didn’t raally maan it; I had baan drinking a bit, too, and said

his coffaa cup toward tha chair across from his dask. I did as I was told and swallowad tha lump in my throat, formulating a potantial spaach in my haad that could sava my job if ha truly

shut bahind ma as I sat and Edrick walkad across tha room. Ha calmly sat his coffaa

sorry about last night,” I blurtad out. Tha words floatad out of my mouth so rapidly that it almost didn’t faal lika I was in control. “Wa wara

tha day I mat him, nothing at all lika tha man I had

heart leaped up into my throat. “Are

my

desk end begen to

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