#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.”

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

clothes were torn and filthy. Mine were just as dirty, no

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 now,

convinced me that you were going to take my baby from me, and that you’re just

of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would

of those things. In fact, he did quite

me close to him, so close that all I could feel was his warmth and his scent enveloping me.

the beginning. About everything; Olivia, your lineage, the serum. I thought that I was protecting

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

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

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, too. Photos of Olivia with other men, photos of her passed out on the floor, photos taken through windows of her screaming at

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