Chapter 166: Regular Girl

Moana

The next morning, I woke up to the sound of Edrick walking around the room. When I looked at the clock, I realized that it was a little later than I usually would have gotten up, and I quickly sat up and rubbed my eyes.

“Sorry,” I said, throwing the covers off and getting out of bed. “I overslept. Guess I missed my alarm.”

Edrick shook his head. “I turned it off for you,” he said as he fixed his hair in the en suite bathroom mirror. “I let you sleep in.”

I scrunched my eyebrows together. “Why?” Normally I woke up a full half hour earlier than this so that I could help prepare breakfast and get Ella ready, and sometimes I woke up even earlier than that.

“We’re going out,” he replied. “School supply shopping. Remember?”

supply shopping, but I didn’t think that he would want to do it so soon. Either way, I smiled and ran to my room to get ready for the day. I put on something comfortable to wear, knowing that we would likely be walking around a lot, and

regular girl,” Ella suddenly said as we gathered our things and waited for the

words, Edrick and I both suddenly looked up at each other with incredulous looks on our

I replied with a chuckle as I tugged her

said. “But I’m still

a look over at Edrick. I could have sworn that

clothes, she still picked out a backpack, accessories, and a little pair of Mary Jane shoes to wear with her uniform. I was excited to see how cute she would look in her uniform,

of the list of supplies that the headmistress gave us.

the side of the cart to peer in.

said, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the art supply aisle. I peered into the cart as well to see that he had fully stocked up on dozens of containers of crayons, coloring books, miniature canvases,

might be too much, Edrick,” I said with a

just for her.” He grinned. “You’ll need supplies for your classroom too, right? And, I wanted

billionaire’s sudden charity. He certainly didn’t need to buy anything for the kids at the orphanage, but he decided to do it without even being asked. I couldn’t help but smile; he had changed so much since I had met him. The Edrick Morgan who I knew when I was almost hit by his

“But you don’t need to buy my supplies for me. Let me buy them with

as he always did; but this time, I wouldn’t let him. Ella had jumped off of the cart to go and look at a colorful notebook on the shelf, and now I grabbed the end of the

a bit

and tugged the cart back toward

narrowed my eyes, and I pulled the cart even harder and with more determination than before. “Edrick Morgan, let me pay for

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