#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.”

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

clothes were torn and filthy. Mine were just as dirty, no doubt from being dragged at some point while I

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 couldn’t keep my story in

were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just using me to get another Alpha heir.

would burst out of my chest, wondering what he

he didn’t do any of those things. In fact,

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

you feel like you needed to run,” 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 you by keeping the truth from you,

my head and looked up at

my fault,” he said before I could say anything. He sat up then and swung his legs over the bed, standing and walking over to the closet. “But it is. All

to rifle through his closet as he spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp to see

with Olivia,” he said. He set the box down, then sighed and passed his hand over his tired face. “She’s a liar. I’m sorry that she manipulated you; there was a point in time when she 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

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