Drama Novel
Chapter 180
Chapter 180
#Chapter 180: Poached for Profit
Moana
“That’s not all,” Olivia said, looking at me with a sickening combination of sadness and concern on her
face that only filled me with dread.
I had already just read that a woman — who was likely Ethan’s mother, judging from the information in
the newspaper article — had died under mysterious circumstances around the Morgan family. Not only
that, but I had discovered that it was very likely that Edrick had taken my wolf tooth and a lock of my
hair to a witch, and he was now putting some sort of potion in my morning coffee. I couldn’t fathom why
he would want to do that, but now that I had read the newspaper article about Ethan’s mother, I was
beginning to wonder if that poor woman had met a fate that I was bound to meet if I continued being
poisoned.
And now, before I could even process all of this, Olivia was saying that she had something else to
reveal to me, as though there was even possibly anything else that could add another layer to this
twisted mess.
“W-What else is there?” I whispered, my voice shaking just as much as my hands.
Olivia, with a sigh, reached into her purse again and retrieved something else. It was another folded
piece of paper. She hesitated with it in her hands, then looked up at me. “Can I see the tooth again?”
she asked.
I froze for a moment, then nodded and handed it back to her. As I did, she opened the folded piece of
paper to reveal what looked to be a page ripped out of a book. She put both of the objects in the center
of the table. The page had an illustration of a wolf tooth on it, with text all around. Immediately, I could
see two words that stuck out to me: Golden Wolf. And now that my own wolf tooth was laying next to
the illustration, they looked eerily similar.
“You’re the Golden Wolf, Moana,” Olivia said. She was whispering now, as though she didn’t want
anyone to overhear a single word of what she was saying. It instantly transported me back to the night
that Ethan told me about the story of the Golden Wolf, and how people would hunt the Golden Wolf if it
was real.
But that was just a fairytale.
I let out a wry chuckle and shook my head. “Very funny,” I replied, sitting back in my chair. “But I know
that that’s just a story for kids.”
Olivia just stared back at me with a serious expression on her face. My smile slowly faded, and my
eyes started to widen.
“It’s true,” she said, pushing the illustration a little closer to me and tapping on a specific paragraph.
“Look here. ‘The Golden Wolf will manifest as a pure soul who is thought to be human. They will
possess a single tooth, the only link to their true lineage.’ That’s you, Moana. Everything that you told
me points to this. And the tooth that you have… Have you looked at it in the moonlight, by any
chance?”
I shook my head, still too shocked to speak.
“Try it tonight,” Olivia said quietly. “It’ll glow a golden color, but only in the moonlight. I promise you, it’s
true.”
I didn’t know what to say. All along, I thought that this was nothing but a fairytale meant to entertain
kids, not a true story. And yet, the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. And it made me
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“Do you think that Edrick knows?” I whispered.
Olivia nodded slowly. “I think so,” she replied. “He may have known from the beginning. For all we
know, he knew that you were the Golden Wolf when he met you, and that was why he got you
pregnant. It all lines up too perfectly with his agenda to produce the best heirs possible. How did you
two meet, anyway?”
“Um… I was just walking down the street, and we ran into each other,” I said, not wanting to go into the
full details of our fateful encounter.
“And you think that that was just pure coincidence, for you to just randomly run into an extremely
famous Alpha CEO in the middle of the street one day?” Olivia said.
My eyes widened. “But I think Edrick is my mate,” I replied. “I thought that was why. I thought it was
fate.”
Olivia shrugged and leaned back in her chair. “Maybe. But do you know for certain that he’s your mate,
or is that just what he told you?”
Olivia’s words made me think deeply. I had thought that he was my mate, and my wolf seemed to think
so as well, but then again… With the way that my wolf had been so sleepy lately, I had absolutely no
way of knowing now. For all I knew, Edrick was giving me potions to hide the fact that he wasn’t my
mate.
“I… I don’t know,” I whispered, feeling hot tears beginning to prick at the backs of my eyes. “I don’t
know what’s real and what isn’t anymore.”
With a sigh, Olivia reached across the table again and squeezed my hand once more. When I looked
up at her, I could see a soft, gentle expression on her pretty face. “That was how I felt, too,” she said
quietly. “For months, I had no idea what to think or who to trust. But you can trust me. And I don’t want
to see you get hurt.”
I had never thought that Edrick would hurt me, but now I wasn’t so sure. What if he just planned on
producing a child of the Golden Wolf, and then he was going to discard me in the same way that his
father had discarded Ethan’s mother? What if the potions would keep me from being able to fight back
and defend myself?
Finally, I looked back at Olivia with tears in my eyes.
“Thank you for telling me the truth,” I whispered.
Olivia nodded, still holding my hand across the table. “If you ever want to escape,” she said, “I’m just a
phone call away. I can get you out of there.”
…
Olivia and I finished our conversation and parted ways. She left first, and as I watched her walk down
the street through the window of the coffee shop, I couldn’t help but think that maybe I should take her
up on her offer.
All of the signs right at that moment pointed to Edrick being up to something sinister. Olivia was right;
my first encounter with Edrick had been too perfect, almost as though it was planned. And although I
had been beginning to think that it was fate bringing two mates together, I was beginning to think
otherwise now. However, I needed more evidence first before I jumped into anything. I needed to know
for sure that Edrick was up to something before I potentially made a mistake by trusting the wrong
person.
But I did know one thing for sure: if I decided to take Olivia up on her offer and run away, I was going to
bring Ella along with me so that I could reunite mother and daughter once more.