Chapter 229: The Truth
Edrick

I stayed up almost all night thinking about things.

Moana was right about Ella needing to know the truth about her mother. Especially if bad things were about to happen, I felt as though I needed to finally tell her everything. And besides, Moana was angry with me; maybe this would remind her that I wasn’t all that bad, and that I was trying my best.

“Ella, can you come here, please?”

Ella sighed and pushed her chair back, causing it to scrape against the floor in an unpleasant way. She was upset with me, too, because she didn’t understand why we had to leave the penthouse so suddenly. But nonetheless, she came over to me and sat in my lap.

I caught a glimpse of Moana standing in the kitchen. Her green eyes met mine, and as I held Ella, I saw them soften as they looked at the two of us.

“Ella, there’s something that I haven’t told you. And I think you deserve to know the truth.”

“What is it?” Ella asked, looking up at me with a pout on her face.

I took a sharp breath. I wasn’t mentally prepared to have this conversation, but it needed to be done.

doorway. It seemed as though she didn’t want to make it too obvious that she was listening, but if I was being honest, I wanted her here by my side for

getting impatient, and looked up at me with

haven’t been telling you the truth,” I finally said. “Your mom… Your real mom… She isn’t dead. Actually, she’s alive. The reason why I told you all this

“Really?”

with you, Princess,” I said gently. “Your mom is someone who has a lot of problems in her life. She doesn’t feel things the way the rest of us do. When you were born, she only did it because she

of the corner of my eye standing in the kitchen doorway, but I could see Selina and the

But I kept going.

your mom was just using you and me to get money and a fancy life, I decided to send her away.

adults don’t have things all

I nodded. “That’s exactly it. When you’re little, like you are, you think that you’ll have everything figured out when you grow up. But you never do, because that’s just not how life works. And that’s okay.

up to see Selina dabbing at her eyes with her apron and

“Daddy?” Ella finally asked.

“Yes, Princess?”

sort of knew that my real mommy was alive

felt my eyes go even wider. “What are you talking about, sweetheart?”

And one time, I

exactly what I had said to Olivia

take this money, and get out! I don’t want you to

that whole memory rushing back like a train hitting me. I felt my heart practically stop, and all I could do was look in shock up at Moana, whose eyes were just as

was an Alpha, after all, and it seemed now that she had the ability of Hindsight, or being able to

that. But maybe, when she was older, it

But I kept going.

and a fancy life, I decided to send her away. That’s why it was always just you

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