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.

froze for a moment, then nodded and handed it back to her. As I did, she opened the folded piece of paper to reveal what looked to be a page ripped out of a book. She put both of the objects in the center of the table. The page had an illustration of a wolf tooth on it, with

saying. It instantly transported me back to the night that Ethan told me about the story of the Golden Wolf, and

was

and shook my head. “Very funny,” I replied, sitting back in my chair. “But I know that that’s just a

just stared back at me with a serious expression on her

she said, pushing the illustration a little closer to me and 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

shook my head, still

golden color, but

not a true story. And yet, the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. And it

think that Edrick

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

was just walking down the street, and we ran into each other,” I said, not wanting to go into the full details of

that that was just pure coincidence, for you to just randomly run into

my mate,” I replied. “I thought that was why. I thought it was

her chair. “Maybe. But do you know for certain that he’s your mate, or is that just what he

words made me think deeply. I had thought that he was my mate, and my wolf seemed to think so as well, but then again… With the way that my wolf had been so sleepy lately, I had absolutely no way of knowing now.

I don’t know,” I whispered, feeling hot tears beginning to prick at the backs of my eyes. “I don’t know what’s real

expression 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

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