#Chapter 4 – A Stranger ?

Abby

How did Karl even end up here? I look around at the bar and frown. This is the best bar in the capital. I

just didn’t count on running into him.

I mean, I knew he was in the capital, but I didn’t think we’d ever cross paths. A part of me hoped I’d

never run into him anywhere ever again.

Damn, he’s as handsome as ever, though. I don’t want to notice it, but I do. His soft brown hair falls

across his forehead, and I have to resist the urge to reach up and push it back. His gaze narrows and

there’s some sort of emotion I can’t place churning in his deep brown eyes.

Somewhere inside of me, I can feel my wolf perking up a bit and I have to resist the powerful urge to

lean into him. Just being near him again makes my sleeping wolf stir.

“What the hell?” I say, forcing myself to remember how pissed I am. If he wants to play games, then so

can I. “Sir, who are you to talk to me like that? What could ever give you the courage to be so rude to a

complete stranger?”

The line of his jaw hardens. Over his shoulder, I can see Adam looking back and forth between us. “A

stranger, is it? Well, let me formally introduce myself then. I’m Karl, your ex-husband.”

“Ex-husband? Well then, you should know we’re divorced now, and this has nothing to do with you, so

if you don’t mind.” I move to step around him, but he shifts with me, blocking my escape.

“We used to be very close,” he says. “It’s my duty to care for you.”

“Well, in the legal sense, we’re no more than strangers.”

I move to step around him again, and he grabs my arm. I tense immediately. “Have you been dating a

day since the

a step back. “What,

jealous and prideful?”

you for?” he snarls. “I came here for

found myself cornered. I just don’t understand why you keep dating

good enough for you?”

I can’t believe what I’m hearing. “Justin, our

house!” Justin was a good man and a

handsome, but that was

“Because he’s just a gardener, right? Figured you’d need a young talent to

instead?”

tone makes my temper flare. Who is he to question me after

who ended things, not

his shoulders tense. I know he thinks I’m going to tangle with him, but

to the capital and created a life for myself here. A good life. There’s no point in

back into

that I’ve moved to the capital to redevelop, we might as well leave

out, is there? We don’t have a relationship now, anyway, so no need

care

time he doesn’t stop me. He

credit, stands up straighter, doing his

Alpha standing before him.

Adam, turning my

little.

smiles down at me. “I have a $30,000 mattress at home. Why

“Sure.”

hear a loud crash. I turn, and my mouth falls open. There’s a pile

Karl, and the broken neck of

across the countertop and drips down onto the

to

hush moves across the room as people turn to look

or at least he’s

to him. “Oh, and

go up. Karl never drinks, at least he never used

over there and stop him,

give him my sympathy, even if

it out of

go back to dancing. Karl takes a swig of

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