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.”

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 me, I couldn’t help but relax a bit into her arms, feeling comforted by the old housekeeper’s touch. When we pulled away, there were tears in both of our eyes. Selina looked like she was about to say something,

Edrick returned to the living room. He looked exhausted, and his clothes were torn and filthy.

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 to

were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just using me to get another Alpha heir. I found out that you were putting those drops in my coffee, and then I decided to

long time. The entire time I felt as though my heart would burst out of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me or kick me out. Was

those things. In fact, he did quite

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 scent enveloping me. 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

Edrick spoke, I shook my head and looked

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 you and Ella. It’s time that the truth comes

as he spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp to

And when Ella was born, and I held my little girl for the first time, I knew that Olivia was brought into

is all of this?” I

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