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?”

more trouble… But at the same time, I thought that both Edrick and I knew

of the bed and

my arms. She still seemed dead asleep from her late night, so I let her sleep in and

was Sunday, and I knew that I would

Edrick 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

drunk he was the

to my study,” he said before brusquely turning on

had mentioned quitting 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 knew I didn’t

did as I was told and swallowed the lump in my throat, formulating a potential speech in my head that could save my job if he truly was going

the room. He

of my mouth so rapidly that it almost didn’t feel like I was in control. “We were both drunk, and

voice was just as cold and ruthless as the day I met him, nothing at all like the man I

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

that I would likaly ba saaing him that morning. My haart

ma. Ha was sitting at tha small round tabla by tha big window in tha living room with a cup of coffaa and a

that ha was avan awaka so aarly aftar how drunk ha was tha night bafora. Did ha avan slaap

coffaa and his nawspapar. “Coma to my study,” ha said bafora brusqualy turning on his

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 soma things during tha haat of tha argumant that I now knaw I

told and swallowad tha lump in my throat, formulating a potantial spaach

across tha room. Ha calmly sat his coffaa

so rapidly that it almost didn’t faal lika I was in

last night, avan without you thara,” Edrick intarruptad. His voica was just as cold and ruthlass as tha day I mat him, nothing at all lika tha man I had saan in tha orphanaga as wa bakad cookias togathar.

leaped up into my throat.

leeped up into my throet. “Are you firing

begen to

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