#Chapter 2 – He Is Trash
Abby

“Abby, these are so good,” Leah says, humming slightly as she chews her lemon poppyseed mu ffin.

They’re a specialty of mine.

Leah, Chloe, and I have a standing afternoon tea date in the capital. Once a week, we get together to

catch up on everything we’ve missed.

“Thank you,” I say, blushing slightly. I have a contract to provide desserts for this restaurant and a few

others.

“Your desserts are getting better and better,” Chloe adds. She’s already finished her blueberry scone

and has several others in a box to take home to her mother.

“All thanks to you guys,” I say. “You’re my first tasters after all.”

Leah wipes some stray sugar off the edge of her lip. “A role I treasure.”

“You’ll never guess who came into the restaurant the other night,” I say, doing my best to sound

nonchalant.

“Who?” Chloe asks, pushing her hair behind her ears.

“A member of Karl’s staff. He wanted to make a reservation.”

Leah looks up, closing the compact mirror with a loud snap. “Tell me you didn’t say yes to him!”

I laugh. “I told him we’re reserved three months out. He doesn’t stand a chance.”

Chloe grins and high fives me. Across the table, Leah gives me an approving look. “Good, I’m proud of

you, girlie.”

“I know you guys never really liked him…”

Chloe shakes her head. “I liked him at first, but he dragged you along way longer than he needed to.

He never treated you right.”

I sit back in my chair, trying to quell the rise of indignation. Far be it from me to suddenly stand up for

I do believe he truly loved me at one point. He couldn’t have

There was a time when

Leah

“You think?” I ask.

changed the minute you married him. You had to

to dress.”

Karl never liked me to

the time, I didn’t really mind. I was willing to do

it would make him

me started on the black hair,” Chloe jumps in. I push my long, golden curls

get it back to my

the black

“He

controlling,”

right, but I hate admitting it, even to them.

just for him. I changed so much that when I look back at pictures from that time, I

of my past life at the back of my closet,

it doesn’t

I say in a small

but Karl never understood why I wanted to spend my time in

I could have been reading or studying instead. And, like

I could do what

Chloe says, gesturing

good housewife, and I did whatever I could to please him, but even

still left me, for no reason that I can think of. And without a

to make a living. Nobody would hire

he never told me why he decided to

thinking about the darkness I plunged into during those months

sit on my chest. My wolf took it just as hard,

in a coma

trash,” Leah

gave him way too much of

got a good settlement in the divorce.” Leah twirls a strand of

“Now you have this great life you created all for

happy,” I

squeezes my hand.

up to now,” Leah says, pulling out her phone. She quickly searches Karl up

a photo of him in the capital. It’s of

the capital for

want to know,”

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