#Chapter 197: Adopted Child

Ella POV I could hardly speak for the rest of the drive. My mind was reeling from so many things, but mostly from the fact that Alexander was finally going to talk to me. He was finally going to tell me what the hell had been going on. As much as I had wanted this—as much as I had begged him for answers—now that I knew they were coming, I was terrified. Whatever he was about to tell me could change everything. It could ruin everything. I didn’t know if I could handle that. If I were honest with myself, I didn’t want things between Alexander and me to change. He had been the only steady presence in my life for a long time now, which was such an absurd thought that it almost made me laugh. It wasn’t real though. If he couldn’t trust me after I confessed everything about the original timeline, then he never would. And I couldn’t allow myself to live in fear again, waiting for the day that he would decide I was in the way… He wasn’t the same as David, and y