Chapter 180: Poached for Profit

Moana

“That’s not all,” Olivia said, looking at me with a sickening combination of sadness and concern on her face that only filled me with dread.

I had already just read that a woman — who was likely Ethan’s mother, judging from the information in the newspaper article — had died under mysterious circumstances around the Morgan family. Not only that, but I had discovered that it was very likely that Edrick had taken my wolf tooth and a lock of my hair to a witch, and he was now putting some sort of potion in my morning coffee.

I couldn’t fathom why he would want to do that, but now that I had read the newspaper article about Ethan’s mother, I was beginning to wonder if that poor woman had met a fate that I was bound to meet if I continued being poisoned.

And now, before I could even process all of this, Olivia was saying that she had something else to reveal to me, as though there was even possibly anything else that could add another layer to this twisted mess.

“W-What else is there?” I whispered, my voice shaking just as much as my hands.

Olivia, with a sigh, reached into her purse again and retrieved something else. It was another folded piece of paper. She hesitated with it in her hands, then looked up at me. “Can I see the tooth again?” she asked.

in the center of the table. The page had an illustration

a single word of what she was saying. It instantly transported me back to the night that Ethan told me about the story

that was just a

head. “Very funny,” I replied, sitting back in my chair.

serious expression on her face. My smile slowly

tapping on a specific paragraph. “Look here. ‘The Golden Wolf will manifest as a pure soul who is thought to be human. They will possess a single tooth, the only link to their true lineage.’ That’s you, Moana. Everything that you told me points to this. And the

still

golden color, but only in the moonlight. I promise you,

this was nothing but a fairytale meant to entertain kids, not a true story. And yet, the more I thought

you think that Edrick

she replied. “He may have known from the beginning. For all we know, he knew that you were the Golden Wolf when he met you, and that was why he got you pregnant. It all lines up too perfectly with his agenda to produce the best heirs possible. How did you two

walking down the street, and we ran into each other,” I said,

just pure coincidence, for you to just randomly run into an extremely famous Alpha CEO in

“But I think Edrick is my mate,” I replied. “I thought that

in her chair. “Maybe. But do you know for certain that

then again… With the way that my wolf had been so

feeling hot tears beginning to prick at the backs of my eyes. “I don’t

on her pretty face. “That was how I felt, too,” she said quietly. “For months, I had no idea what to think or who to trust. But you

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