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.

as he set Ella down, then gestured for me to follow him; as I did, it felt like I was

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 was a mahogany desk in the middle of the room and a small seating area by the fireplace. At the time that Ella showed me this room, I had found it

chairs by the fireplace and sat down. “I didn’t know that you would be the employer. If I had

Moana,” Edrick said, rubbing his tired eyes. “I knew it was you when I hired you.

my eyebrows together. “What do you

detached from the hiring

treated me like a beggar. Like I was a…” I lowered my voice so Ella couldn’t

“After that, you wouldn’t take the money I tried to give you after our one night stand, because apparently your pride is more important than paying your rent. I may seem

interview fair and square,” I said. “Why are you making it out

“Oh, please. Your application was tossed into the reject pile the first day you sent it. I decided

of someone who was just supposed to

another step closer, “for a man who complained that his one night stand was just after him for money,

fixing his steely gaze on me. “You know the stipulations of the clauses. And I highly doubt

to see Ella standing in the doorway, tears streaming down her

from where I stood,

“Ella–”

whipped back around to glare at Edrick, whose gaze had shifted from cold to concerned in a matter of moments. “You should

out of Edrick’s office and found Ella’s room, but the

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