#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

man every day since the

back. “What, have you been spying

jealous and prideful?”

he snarls. “I came here for the Alpha party, not you.

don’t understand why you keep dating different

good enough for you?”

believe what I’m hearing. “Justin,

good man and a

was handsome, but that

right? Figured you’d need a

instead?”

makes my temper flare. Who is he to question me after everything? He’s

who ended things,

shoulders tense. I know he thinks I’m going to tangle with

here. A good life.

into the

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

there? We don’t have

care

he doesn’t stop me. He turns and his scowl deepens when

up straighter, doing his best not to be

Alpha standing before him.

turning my back to Karl. I can’t help but antagonize him

little.

$30,000 mattress at home.

“Sure.”

turn, and my mouth falls open. There’s a pile of shattered

Karl, and the broken neck of the bottle is

across the countertop and drips down onto the floor. He puts the

to

the room as people turn to

or at least he’s pretending not to

him. “Oh, and I’ll have a glass

at least he never used to. If he

of me wants to go over there and stop him, but I hold myself back. He’s not my

give him my sympathy, even if it seems like he’s

it out of

people go back to dancing. Karl takes a swig of wine and

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