Chapter 225: Pulling the Rug

Moana

I woke up after a night of dreamless sleep to the sound of someone rushing around the room. When I cracked open my eyes, I saw Edrick pacing back and forth. He had a pile of shirts in his hand, and I watched in a state of shock as he walked over to a suitcase and quickly shoved the shirts inside.

“What are you doing?” I asked, sitting up.

Edrick didn’t even look up at me. “We have to go,” was all he said.

My eyes widened. “Go where?”

“We’re going back to the mountain estate for real this time.”

As Edrick spoke, I felt my heart sink. My limbs still felt too heavy from the sleeping meds to move quickly, and as I threw the covers off and swung my limp legs over the edge of the bed, it felt as though I was moving through a thick mud.

“Why?” I asked. “You didn’t mention that we would be leaving before. Was it because of last night?”

his suitcase. “Come help me zip this up?” he asked. I nodded slowly and walked

because of last night? I’ll be okay, I promise. We

shook his head and scurried over to the bathroom, where he began tossing toiletries into a bag. “It’s not that,” he said. “It’s for your own safety. And that’s all I’m going to say. Go get dressed; we’ll

felt my heart sink even

glowing silver, as though

to argue with him, and it was unfair. But even if I told him how unfair I found it to be, it didn’t seem to matter anyway. Edrick clearly had made up his mind, and there was no way to get around it this time; whatever went through his head last night after I went to sleep seemed to solidify

my wolf said as I painfully made my way

It still

bedroom door and, just as Edrick said, Selina had already packed my things. Only a single outfit was left out for me on the bed, and a few toiletries so I could get ready for the day. Other than that, my other necessities were all packed up. Everything except my valuables and sentimental items were packed away, like Selina was rushing to get just what I needed into my bags. In Ella’s room next door, I could hear the sound of Ella whining while Selina

over to see her tugging on Selina’s skirt with tears streaming down her cheeks. “I don’t wanna leave! I wanna go

know,” Selina replied, sounding quite defeated herself. “But we have

could continue to pack Ella’s bags and Ella, in a childish fit, plopped down on

me leave!” Ella wailed,

looked at Ella, I felt my heart break just a little bit more; especially because I knew that this was my fault. “Here, love,” I said.

I held back my own tears as I wiped hers away, and then led her to my room with me and let her sit on my bed while I got dressed, so that Selina could

I were both in the same boat of being forced to leave with no say in the matter. But I, unlike Ella, had a pretty good reason why. It certainly had something to do with my dream and my sleepwalking episode from the night before, but

I was a bit

mostly in silence, with only Ella speaking up on occasion to whine about how she wanted to go home or how she needed to go potty. Edrick just drove with his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, and I could only clench my jaw and stare

time we went to the mountain estate, it was for a lovely vacation. That time, the mountain air felt fresh, the view was beautiful, and the trees calmed

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