Chapter 146: Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater

Moana

I hoped that Edrick wasn’t too upset with me or jealous. After all, I did just reveal to him that I had conceived our child with him on the very night that my ex-boyfriend and I broke up, which would certainly seem like rebounding. I felt my voice shaking a bit as I told him what happened, but at the same time, it felt better to get things out in the air.

And, much to my surprise, Edrick didn’t say anything about the fact that I slept with him on the same night that Sam and I broke up. In fact, he seemed entirely focused on Sam’s transgressions. It really made me realize that Edrick was on my side above all else, and it made me feel safe with him.

“I’ll take care of it,” Edrick said. His voice was low and stern, and even though I felt better after telling him everything, I instantly became worried that I was about to cause a scene after all.

“I-I don’t want to cause a scene,” I began, but Edrick waved his hand for me to stop. With his arm still wrapped firmly around my shoulders, he steered me away from Sam and in another direction, which took me by surprise. I had thought that he was going to march up to Sam and confront him with me, but he didn’t.

In fact, he was heading toward someone else entirely.

Mia.

up to her. She was talking on the phone, but when she saw us coming and saw the look on Edrick’s face, she quickly

she asked, swirling her mimosa around in her glass. “You

Edrick said as he stopped

So did I; in fact, I was utterly confused. What was Edrick

on the offer,” she said slowly. “What is

Sam again. He lowered his voice so no one

he asked, nodding his head subtly toward Sam and his new girlfriend. Mia casually glanced over at Sam, looking him up and down, then looked back at

“Yeah. What about him?”

threatened Moana. If you can make him betray his new girlfriend, I’ll give

to me. I just wanted him to know about the situation so it could be handled in case Sam tried to expose the lie that I was Ella’s biological mother.

want a new sports car, though. A

If you can expose him for the asshole that he really is, I’ll go to the

mimosa and shoved the empty glass into Edrick’s hands. “One is enough,” she said, patting him on the shoulder with a grin. “But I’ll

seemed that Mia wasn’t even aware that our relationship was fake, and I

over toward Sam. I watched with wide eyes and a slack jaw as she let down her long, black hair, then stopped at the bar for another mimosa and began to saunter up

didn’t want anyone to get in trouble. I

the same pattern,” he said matter-of-factly. “Once a

but admit to myself that it was something that I was attracted to… And Sam did deserve to learn a lesson for being a cheater. Not just a cheater, but a jerk who said such horrible things to me when

taking my hand and flashing me

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