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?”

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

of

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

how drunk he had been 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

almost as if 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 and a

so early after how drunk he was the night before.

“Come to my study,” he said before brusquely turning on his heel and storming off to

I followed him. Was he going to fire me? I 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

coffee cup toward the chair across from his desk. I did as I was told and swallowed the lump

clicked shut behind me as I sat and Edrick walked across the room. He calmly set his

it almost didn’t feel like I was in

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

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 to gat raady for tha

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

for ma. Ha was sitting at tha small round tabla by

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

to my study,” ha said bafora brusqualy turning on his

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

was told and swallowad tha lump in my throat, formulating a potantial spaach in my haad that could sava my job

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

Tha words floatad out of my mouth so rapidly that it almost didn’t

I mat him, nothing

my throat. “Are you

up into my throet. “Are you

desk end begen to rifle through

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