#Chapter 189: A Small Sacrifice

Moana

When I came to, I felt myself sitting in a chair with my wrists tied behind me. My head was pounding from the blow that knocked me out, but that wasn’t the only thing I felt on my head.

Something cold and hard was pressed up against my temple.

My eyes fluttered open, squinting against the bright light of a spotlight. The light was so bright as it shined down on me that I could hardly see past it, but I could tell that I was inside the warehouse now.

The cold metal thing pressed harder into my temple. And then, a familiar voice spoke out.

“Hello, Moana.”

I jumped at the voice and whipped my head around, my eyes widening as I saw Ethan standing beside me with a gun raised to my head.

“E-Ethan?” I whispered, my voice shaking.

the night of the banquet, when he didn’t think that I was looking. But now, he knew that I

expect to see me, huh?”

I looked around frantically, only to see her tied to

not hurt. Just under a spell. That way, she won’t need to experience any of this. She will have just gone to sleep, and she’ll never

need to do this,” I begged. “At least

press the barrel of the pistol in his

both innocent,” he admitted, “but you see… It’s not that simple. It was thanks to Edrick and his parents that my

indicated that she killed herself. In fact, it indicated quite the opposite; that Michael had killed her. And knowing Michael, I was sure of it. Did he really sink

pushing harder into my temple. A choked sob caught in

I tried killing the family pets. It started with a pet bird, then a cat, and a puppy that Michael got for Edrick on his birthday. But although it caused them pain, it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t the same sort of pain that I felt when I found my mom’s body laying in her bathtub. Ever since then, I’ve been plotting the perfect way to make them all suffer greatly. At first, I was just going to kill Ella, since Edrick

his eyes, he never once lowered the gun. I felt myself trembling violently beneath the cold metal of the barrel. My eyes then caught something in the corner, just beyond the bright light that was shining on me.

But you’re too perfect not to kill. You’re the perfect key that I’ve been missing. Once you and Ella are both gone, then Edrick will finally know what it’s like to be truly alone, to be truly heartbroken. After you, I’ll take Verona next. I don’t think that Michael is really capable of true human emotions, but he’ll still feel the sting of loneliness. She is his mate, after all, despite the fact that he betrayed her by

I asked, nodding my head toward where Kelly lay. “What did she ever do

She was only ever a pawn throughout all of this; her insatiable obsession with Edrick just made her easy to control, to manipulate. As I’m sure you’re guessing now, judging from the look on your face, yes; I did tell

and lowered the gun slightly before making an innocent face like a puppy dog. His eyes became big and filled with tears, and his lower lip started to quiver. “Officers, Kelly killed them!

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