#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.

eyes. “Karl, you need to make an appearance, and you

Luna. Now get up. I don’t want to get there

status to get us a decent spot for

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

be.

my divorce, I haven’t eaten gourmet food of any kind. That was more Abby’s thing

I’d be perfectly fine just having my supplements. Other than a

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

time, and I don’t care much for the

should make the appointment in person, I didn’t have the will

on booking the best restaurant in town for the Alpha

know anything about food,

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

and Abby never met, and it’s clear that neither one of them

and she looks completely different from the last time

little. I can’t help

black

wolf me ntally curses me. He

time he’s argued with me

it to the forefront of

take the moment to respond to my

he knows perfectly well what she

for

me with Justin, my gardener. I was

I say to my wolf. Cheating is

never

contact with Justin, he argues. Maybe she’s telling the

suspect the wrong person!

for the pack, my wife was screwing my gardener! I growl.

I clench my fists against his flare of

he’s still skeptical. The

with your own eyes, my wolf snarls back.

that evidence, all the photos of intimate feedings, the sneak peek of the kiss, the

showed up in the weed pile, and the fact that Justin

Abby left, all

hurt and anger rise to the surface. I had more than

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