Chapter 183: Video Evidence

Moana

I went to work the next morning with my meeting with Olivia still plaguing my mind. Between all of the evidence I had gathered so far, what Olivia said, and how Edrick reacted when he discovered that I hadn’t taken the driver, I was seriously beginning to doubt my own safety at home.

That morning, I sneakily dumped my morning coffee again. By the time I got to work, my wolf’s energy was back to normal and she was able to offer me some insight on the situation.

“I am almost entirely certain that Edrick is indeed our mate,” Mina said during my lunch break, while I paced back and forth in my empty classroom and chewed nervously on my fingernails.

“But that doesn’t mean that his intentions are entirely pure, does it?” I asked.

Mina was silent for a few moments before responding. “No. It doesn’t.”

but I had always been under the impression that fated mates would never want to betray each other. Then again, however, I couldn’t help but think back to the story of how Ethan was born. Michael and Verona were supposed to be fated mates, but Michael cheated on her anyway and betrayed her trust. It sounded

tried to make up for it the next day by spending the day with me, he had still not apologized, which made me think now that his

my classroom, I thought back to the first night that I had spent in the penthouse. After I realized that Edrick was the one who hired me, I had tried to go home; but he had sent frightening men after me. Maybe I should have taken that alone as the first red flag. Even before my true nature as a werewolf was known, he wouldn’t let me leave. Did he know that

my worries out of my mind. When I went home that evening, however, I had an idea as to how I could potentially ease my worries and find out for sure if

than normal. I woke up before everyone else and snuck over to the kitchen, where I placed my phone on video mode in a cupboard. I made sure to angle it in such a way that it

I hit record and snuck back

for work as though I had just woken up. And just as I suspected, my coffee and breakfast were waiting for

morning,” Selina said from where she stood

to only pretend to sip my coffee, and waited for a moment when Selina had walked out of the room. Then, I quickly dumped

I to school and we said our goodbyes, and the entire time I felt as though I was going

first thing I did was sit down at my desk and pull my phone out of my

and put the coffee grounds into the filter. She turned on the coffee machine and walked away to start cooking on the stove

however, Edrick came in. I watched with wide eyes as he took two mugs out of the cupboard and poured coffee and creamer into them; one for himself, and one

Edrick placed my coffee cup down at

as though it would pound straight out of my chest as I watched in horror. Edrick glanced nervously

He put two drops of the mystery liquid into my coffee, quickly concealing the vial back in his pocket

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