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.

be with someone who stole his first wife’s child

a post-training ice pop, 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 that her mother was dead, and honestly the fact that Edrick lied to Ella in the first

still couldn’t be entirely sure if I could trust Olivia or not. Maybe some of 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

that I immediately wanted to talk to Edrick. It simply couldn’t wait; I needed to tell him what happened and hear his side of the story, 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

kitchen, the living room, his study and his bedroom, and he wasn’t there. In fact,

had woken up without him two days in a row. And now he was out all day on a Saturday when he was normally home, and no one even heard

strange, even for Edrick. Frankly, I

more clear headed when I

had cleared out a drawer in his dresser since I had been sleeping in there again, where I kept a few clothes and some toiletries so that I wouldn’t always 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

the top drawer of the dresser, where the ornate little wooden box sat where I kept the tooth. I pulled the box out and walked over to

when I opened the box, the tooth was

in dismay before furrowing my brow and jumping up, running over to the drawer and frantically rifling through it for the tooth. Maybe I misplaced it. Maybe it

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

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