Chapter 6 Another One Bites The Dust

Moana

I stood frozen in the middle of the living room, my back turned to the door as I heard footsteps approaching. How did this happen? How did I wind up finally becoming employed, only for it to turn out that my new employer was the same person who I had a one night stand with just two nights ago?

The footsteps came closer. I felt like a deer in headlights.

“Good evening, Miss Moana,” that all-too-familiar voice said from behind me. “Can we speak privately for a minute?”

I slowly turned around to face Edrick Morgan, the handsome and wealthy werewolf CEO, the extremely well-known public figure, the man who I had slept with two nights ago… The man who tried to throw money at my feet like I was a prostitute.

He stood in front of me with Ella in his arms, the perfect picture of a loving father.

me to follow him; as I did, it felt like I was swimming through mud, like my limbs were heavy and useless. Was I

room and into his study; I remembered it from my tour with Ella earlier. It had enormous bookshelves lining the walls that rose all the way to the ceiling, with a large carved stone fireplace and two tall, arched windows. There

clicked shut behind us. I stayed by the door, watching as Edrick casually walked over to one of the plush chairs by the fireplace

said, rubbing his tired eyes. “I knew it was you when I

together. “What do you

stubborn, but I’m not completely detached from the hiring process,” Edrick replied. “I wanted to give you a

voice so Ella couldn’t hear. “…a prostitute. And now you give me a

your pride is more important than paying your rent. I may seem like an arrogant asshole to you, but I do not owe anyone and I know a desperate person when

clenching my fists. “I passed that interview fair and square,” I said. “Why are you making it out like

into the reject pile the first day you sent it. I decided

my throat as Edrick spoke. Was this all I was? A charity case? A pathetic example of someone who was just supposed to

stand was just after him

fixing his steely gaze on me. “You know the stipulations

up to

snarled. Even from where I stood, I could see her little fangs poking out and

“Ella–”

whipped back around to glare at Edrick, whose gaze had shifted from cold to concerned in a matter

Edrick’s office and found Ella’s room, but the door was locked when I

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