#Chapter 185: Costly Scandal

Ella POV Alexander was looking at me curiously. I wasn’t sure how I could explain to him what happened in the original election race. Honestly, my memories of that were spotty. I wondered if the more time that passed in this timeline, the more I forgot from the first. It would make some sense. It was difficult for my mind to keep the two lives straight at times. "The election was close," I said, keeping my eyes on the whiskey rather than on Alexander. "But in the end, there was a scandal you couldn’t talk your way out of." "The women," Alexander said thoughtfully. "That’s how you knew about them. That’s why you warned me ahead of time that they’d come forward with their crazy stories." "That’s true," I said. "It’s also how I knew about the rumors surrounding the shopping center when it opened—and a number of other things. But that’s not what I’m talking about. This was something more." "How so?" Alexander asked, leaning forward with interest. "It