Chapter 116: The Alpha Tooth

Moana

That night, Edrick asked me to sleep with him. I didn’t know exactly what changed, and why he didn’t seem to want me to leave his side, but I chalked it up to the anxiety caused by the whole ordeal. Besides, I wasn’t complaining; I didn’t want to be alone, either.

Feeling his warm arms wrapped around me was a sorely needed comfort, and I found myself slipping off into sleep within moments of laying down with him.

Edrick and I didn’t wake up again until the next morning. Somehow, we slept through the entire day and night, and still felt tired in the morning.

We laid there for a while after waking up, not speaking as we both stared up at the ceiling. I had so many questions about what happened the day before, and how he found me… But it seemed that he had questions of his own, too.

“Can I ask you something?” he said, turning to look at me.

the feeling of my face turning red under his gaze. I was so used to the Alpha billionaire’s stern eyes by now,

few moments before he finally spoke. “Do you know anything about your lineage?” he asked. “I

if he truly followed my scent to find me, like Mina said. But I wasn’t prepared to tell him right now. What if it turned out that my wolf never wound up being able to emerge? I couldn’t tell him until I was certain. I had planned all along on waiting until I shifted

sat up, shaking

lied. “All I know is that I was left on Sophia’s doorstep. That’s it.” I threw the covers off then and swung my legs over the side of the bed. “Are you hungry? I can make breakfast. I’ll bring it in here

out and grabbed my arm — not hard, but firmly enough to show me that he knew I was lying, and that he wanted me to

said quietly. “I’m the father of your baby. I think it’s only fair for you to be open with

some inkling of my true heritage. I couldn’t exactly go on like this forever, keeping the truth from him. Eventually, our baby would be born

with a sigh, I nodded. “Okay,” I said. “But let me get something

was still early enough for the other servants and Ella to be asleep, so I was able to make my way to my room without being seen and questioned over why I had slept in Edrick’s room all day and night. Once there, I opened my top dresser drawer and rifled through it until I found the small wooden box where I kept the wolf tooth that Sophia had given me. I hadn’t looked at the tooth in a while. When she first gave it to me, for some reason I couldn’t stop carrying it around in my pocket — but when I eventually realized that I could

throat, I carried

in bed when I arrived, waiting for me. I didn’t speak as I set

it?” he asked tentatively, glancing between me and the box with a

it,” I replied. I didn’t have the strength to

wooden box. His eyes widened as he stared down at it. Then, gingerly, he picked the tooth up and held it up to the light. I watched in silence, my heart racing,

his

it to me. She said that it was in my hand when I was left on her doorstep as a baby. And… She said that it’s usually a sign that a child is a werewolf, and it’s not just that; she also said that it’s usually a sign that werewolf parents have chosen to abandon a wolfless child, pronouncing them as dead instead of embracing them for who they are. I didn’t believe her at

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