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.

to make it too obvious that she was listening, but if I was being honest, I wanted her here by my side for this. I just hoped that Ella would understand why I kept the truth from her for so long… And I hoped that she wouldn’t resent

it?” Ella was getting impatient, and looked up at

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 time that your mom isn’t

eyes widened. “Really?” she

has a lot of problems in her life. She doesn’t feel things

not only see Moana out of the corner of my eye standing in the kitchen doorway, but I could see Selina

But I kept going.

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

it because sometimes, adults don’t have things

go a little wide at Ella’s wise words, and 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,

dabbing at her eyes with her apron and scurrying away.

“Daddy?” Ella finally asked.

“Yes, Princess?”

sort of knew that my real mommy was

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

like when I was a baby, before I could remember things. And one time, I had a dream that you and my real mommy were fighting, and you told her to leave and

was exactly what

and get out! I

I felt my heart practically stop, and all

all, and it seemed now that she had the ability of Hindsight, or being able to see

that. But maybe, when she was older, it would manifest more solidly. Powers like that sometimes dissipated as kids got older,

But I kept going.

get money and a fancy life, I decided to send her away. That’s

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