#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.”

hugged me, I couldn’t help but relax a

were torn and filthy. Mine were just

We climbed into 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 any longer. I felt as though it was best to get it out

admitted, feeling a lump form in my throat as I stared up at the ceiling. “This is all my fault. For weeks, I’ve been talking to 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 you were putting those drops in my coffee, and then I decided to run

heart would burst out of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at me or kick me out. Was it

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

I felt his arms wrap around me and he pulled me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his scent enveloping me.

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

spoke, I shook my head and looked

not 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 along,

he spoke. I sat up and turned on the bedside lamp

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, too. Photos of Olivia with other men, photos of

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