Chapter 156: In His Pocket

Moana

I felt utterly shocked after my conversation with Olivia. At first, I thought that there was no way that she really was Ella’s biological mother, because Ella’s biological mother was supposed to be dead. But the resemblance was uncanny, and she even knew things that no one else knew, such as Edrick’s drinking problem. And the way that she cried when she talked about Ella… It was too real. She didn’t seem to be faking it, and if she was, then she was a hell of a good actress.

But even then, I still didn’t know if I could trust Olivia enough to fully believe her. There was always a possibility that she was lying and wasn’t Ella’s biological mother, but was instead somehow related to Michael or Kelly. That would explain why she knew so much about Edrick and Ella, and why she called Edrick so much late at night. Maybe Michael or someone else wanted her to bother Edrick and lie to me to get me to leave. I had no way of knowing at this point.

Either way, as I took Ella home that day after training I decided to just pretend for a moment that Olivia was telling the truth. If I assumed that Olivia really was Ella’s biological mother, then that meant that this entire situation was potentially more sinister than I originally thought.

I couldn’t help but worry that my baby would be ripped away from me in the same way that Ella was ripped away from Olivia. Would Edrick really do that to me, after everything that happened between us? I thought that there was a chance that we were mates, but now I wasn’t so sure.

only that, but did I really want to be with someone who

I really could see the resemblance between her and Olivia. I imagined how Ella’s life would have been different if she hadn’t been raised to think

what she told me was right, but not all of it. I wouldn’t know until I had the perspective from Edrick’s side of the story, and as I took Ella up the elevator and sent her to her room

because if Olivia was telling the full truth, then I wanted to make arrangements to leave and get my baby out of here… As sad as that made me. To think that Ella had only just asked me that morning if she could refer to me as her mother, and now I had supposedly met her mother and even found out that Edrick may have stolen her from her mother… All of it felt like

study and his bedroom, and he wasn’t there. In fact, when I asked Selina where he was, she said that

without him two days in a row. And now he was out all day on a Saturday when he was

strange, even for Edrick. Frankly, I was

as though I was more clear headed when I held the tooth in my hand, and right now I needed to be able to think straight after everything

need to run back and forth between my room and his room for basic things. I always liked to have the tooth nearby, especially when I was sleeping, so I wound up keeping the tooth in that drawer as well. Now that Edrick knew about it, I wasn’t worried about keeping the tooth a secret

the dresser, where the ornate little wooden box sat where I kept the tooth.

I opened the box, the

widened with shock and my mouth fell agape. I clapped my hand over my shock in dismay before furrowing my brow and jumping up, running over to

fact, it wasn’t anywhere. I searched behind the dresser, in all of the drawers, in my bedside table and even under my pillow. I checked under the bed, under the mattress, in the bathroom cabinets… I checked everywhere. When I realized that it wasn’t anywhere in Edrick’s room, I tried to keep myself calm as I hurried over to my own room, thinking that maybe I had brought it over there at some point and forgot about

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