#Chapter 151: A True Gift

Alexander POV Ella was looking up at me wide-eyed. I could tell that she was surprised by what I was telling her. I was surprised too. It wasn't something I had intended to confess yet the words came so easily. There wasn't much about my past that I had told her. In fact, as I took a sip of my drink I couldn't think of a single thing I told Ella about myself. At least, not anything that she couldn’t have learned from others. It almost seemed unfair seeing as she'd been fairly open with me about her past. Yet there were those shadowy parts, the secrets she was obviously keeping that would reveal how it was she got the information that she had. I smiled to myself as I thought of it. The two of us with all of our secrets were doing our best to work together, trusting each other implicitly despite not having a strong reason to. It made no sense, and yet I was grateful for it. I took a sip of the sweet alcohol, letting my mind wander. I found myself t