Chapter 189: A Small Sacrifice

Moana

When I came to, I felt myself sitting in a chair with my wrists tied behind me. My head was pounding from the blow that knocked me out, but that wasn’t the only thing I felt on my head.

Something cold and hard was pressed up against my temple.

My eyes fluttered open, squinting against the bright light of a spotlight. The light was so bright as it shined down on me that I could hardly see past it, but I could tell that I was inside the warehouse now.

The cold metal thing pressed harder into my temple. And then, a familiar voice spoke out.

“Hello, Moana.”

I jumped at the voice and whipped my head around, my eyes widening as I saw Ethan standing beside me with a gun raised to my head.

whispered,

banquet, when he didn’t think that I was looking. But now, he knew that I was looking right at him and he didn’t

expect to see me, huh?”

frantically, only to see her tied to another chair next to me. She

need

eyes. “Ethan, you don’t need to do this,” I begged. “At

barrel of the pistol in his hand against

“but you see… It’s not that simple. It was thanks to Edrick and his parents that my beautiful

to the news article that Olivia showed me the other day, and it never indicated that she killed herself. In fact, it indicated quite the opposite; that Michael had killed her. And knowing Michael, I was sure of it. Did he really sink his claws in

began, but was quickly cut off by the gun pushing harder into my temple.

shut up and don’t talk. Now, where was I…” He paused for a moment, still holding the gun against his head, and then his face lit up. “So, as I was saying, I’ve been looking for ways to get back at that godforsaken family. I wanted to make them feel the same pain that

caused them pain, it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t the same sort of pain that I felt when I found my mom’s body laying in her bathtub. Ever since then, I’ve

going to kill Ella, since Edrick didn’t have anyone else that he actually gave a s**t about; but then, you came into the picture. You, with your pretty face,

traveling down from my face to my neck, my breasts, over my belly and down to my thighs. But even then, as he drank me in with his eyes, he never once lowered the gun. I felt myself trembling violently beneath the cold metal of the barrel. My

continued, “my half-brother was taken with you from the start. And I don’t blame him. You’re a gem, Moana. A real gem… But you’re too

what it’s like to be truly alone, to be truly heartbroken. After you, I’ll take Verona next. I don’t think that Michael is really capable of true human emotions, but he’ll still feel the

nodding my head toward where Kelly lay. “What did she ever do to you? From the looks of it,

about Kelly. She was only ever a pawn throughout all of this; her insatiable obsession with Edrick just made her easy

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