#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.”

seem to fully satisfy the maids. Lily opened her mouth to ask me more questions, but Selina hushed her and sent them both off to her room. 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, but she seemed to decide against it and instead simply

the living room. He looked exhausted, and his clothes were torn and filthy. Mine were just as dirty, no doubt from being dragged at some point while I was

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

Olivia; she convinced me that you were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just using me to get another Alpha heir. I found out that

what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me or

any of those things. In fact, he did quite the

me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his scent enveloping me. He stayed silent for a long time after that before he finally

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

Edrick spoke, I shook my head and looked up

anything. 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

closet as he spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp to see him coming back with a shoebox

manipulated me, too. She had me convinced that we would live a happy life together and that she loved me. I knew that she wasn’t my fated mate, but I didn’t care. When she got pregnant, I was overjoyed. And when Ella was born, and I held my little girl for the first time, I knew that Olivia was brought into my life specifically to bring Ella into the world. But things got bad after that.” He opened the shoebox to reveal what looked like a bundle of letters folded up, and started to pull them out. There weren’t just letters inside, I realized; there were photos,

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