Chapter 197: Straight From the Heart

Moana

We headed upstairs after the police officer dropped us off. When we arrived, Selina and the maids were sitting on the couch and immediately jumped up when they heard us coming.

“Oh, thank goodness!” Selina cried, rushing toward me and pulling me into her arms. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

I shook my head, then put my finger over my lips and pointed at Ella, who was still sleeping on Edrick’s shoulder. Selina nodded and wiped her tears away. Edrick took Ella back to her room without a word, leaving me alone with Selina and the maids.

“Moana, what happened?” Amy asked, keeping her voice low. “We were worried sick.”

“I’ll explain everything tomorrow,” I said. “But we’re okay. We’re safe.”

both off to her room. Selina left, too, but not before giving me another tight hug that took me just as much by surprise as the first one. As she hugged

and his clothes were torn and filthy. Mine were just as dirty, no doubt

we cleaned ourselves off and changed into clean pajamas. We climbed into bed and laid there motionless in the darkness for a long time, but I knew that neither of us would be able to sleep — and I couldn’t keep my story in any longer. I felt as though it was best

as I stared up at the ceiling. “This is all my fault. For weeks, I’ve been talking to Olivia; she convinced me that you were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just

what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me or kick me out. Was it

he didn’t do any of those things. In fact, he

out for me. I felt his arms wrap around me and he pulled me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his

you feel like you needed to run,” he whispered. “I should have been honest with you from the beginning. About everything; Olivia, your lineage, the serum. I thought that I was protecting you by keeping the truth from you, but it turned out to put

I shook my head and looked up

before I could say anything. He sat up then and swung his legs over the bed, standing and walking over to the closet. “But it is. All along, I’ve been hiding so much from both

spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp to see him coming back with a

manipulated you; there was a point in time when she manipulated me, too. She had me convinced that we would live a happy life together and that she loved me. I knew that she wasn’t my fated mate, but I didn’t care. When she got pregnant, I was overjoyed. And when Ella was born, and I held my little girl for the first time, I knew that Olivia was brought into my life specifically to bring Ella into the world. But things got bad after that.” He opened the shoebox to reveal what looked like a bundle of letters folded up, and started to pull them out. There weren’t just letters inside, I realized; there were photos,

is all of

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