#Chapter 5 – The Trouble
Karl

Tiffany smiles, gazing across at Abby, who seems frozen in her chair behind the counter. I look

between them for a moment, and it’s easy to imagine that Abby is drawing all kinds of conclusions

about what Tiffany, and I are to each other.

I only came to the capital for the Alpha party, and without a Luna, I decided I should invite my cousin

Tiffany to come along. She recently returned from eight years of studying abroad, and I figured it would

be a good way for us to catch up.

I don’t get a lot of free time, and I couldn’t exactly show up at the party without a suitable female

companion. It seemed like a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Although, I’m beginning to regret letting her blackmail me into this particular outing. After eight years

apart, I forgot how strong-willed my cousin can be. When Tiffany wants something, she tends to get it. I

tried explaining that I’m way too busy to go traipsing around to different food joints, but she wasn’t

having it.

“We need to book at a restaurant, like now,” she said, leaning against my desk with her arms crossed.

“And clearly sending someone else to do it for you didn’t work.”

“I’m too busy.”

She frowned. “If you want me to come to this party with you, then you’d better get up and come to this

restaurant with me.”

“I don’t even want to go to this party,” I grumbled. It wasn’t like I had ample time to attend social

engagements. The time would have been better spent working for the pack.

make an

Now get up. I don’t

to get us a decent spot for the party. I’m just

back to work. I’m in no mood to drag this night out

be.

of any kind. That was more Abby’s thing than mine. If

just having my supplements. Other than a few business

of politeness, I haven’t really made the effort to eat a fancy

have the time, and I don’t care much for the rituals of

in person, I didn’t have

She’s dead set on booking the best restaurant in

be her top choice. I don’t really know anything about food, so I’m mostly just here

my Alpha self,’ as she put it. I just wasn’t expecting to walk in

met, and it’s clear that neither one of them knows who the

looks completely different from

a little. I can’t help but think about how good her

that black dress the other

me ntally curses me. He wants Abby, and he’s

isn’t the first time he’s argued with me about it but seeing

forefront of

steps forward to talk to Abby, and I take the moment to respond

her back when he knows perfectly well

for

Justin, my gardener. I

said it a million times, I say to my wolf. Cheating is my deal breaker, and the evidence

never get

hasn’t had any contact with Justin, he argues. Maybe she’s telling

suspect the wrong person!

I was working my as s off for the pack, my wife was

against his flare of anger. I

still skeptical. The evidence was

with your own eyes, my wolf snarls

mean all that evidence, all the photos of intimate

up in the weed pile, and the

all of

the evidence makes the hurt and anger rise to the surface. I had more

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