#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 we pulled away, there were tears in both of our eyes. Selina looked like she was about to say something, but she seemed to

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

neither of us would be able to sleep

my fault. For weeks, I’ve been talking to Olivia; she convinced me that you were going to

The entire time I felt as though my heart would burst out of my chest, wondering what he was going to say. I wondered if he would yell at

any of those things. In fact,

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. He stayed

everything; Olivia, your lineage, the serum. I thought that I was protecting you by keeping the truth from you, but it turned out to put you

I shook my head and looked up at

me that it’s 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.

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

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 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

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