#Chapter 8 – The Truth
Karl

I put down the stack of papers and lean back in my chair. I’ve spent the better part of the morning going

over the report from my investigators, and I’m still struggling to wrap my head around everything they

found.

It seems like Abby has had a tough couple of years. Even though her father gave her a generous

severance package, his business has clearly been struggling. He even had to sell their house,

something I know must have been hard for Abby, who spent her childhood there.

Her father was a supplier for the former Alpha, and her family was very wealthy as a result. When we

married, though, she offered to change suppliers to avoid suspicion.

We didn’t want people to see me as a selfish Alpha. I don’t think either of us realized how much of a

strain that would put on her father’s business, even if he was completely understanding of our decision.

After our divorce, Abby started as a backroom apprentice at a restaurant. By doing so, she managed to

save up a sum of money.

Looking at the pictures of her from that time makes something in my heart hurt. She looks haggard,

worked to the bone, and there’s a hollowness in her eyes that makes me feel incredibly guilty. I know I

caused that broken look on her face. I never imagined she felt as heartbroken as I did. She cheated on

me, after all.

From there, she moved to the capital to start her own business. Using some contacts left behind by me,

she was able to build her restaurant into a must-go spot. Now she’s doing great. She owns one of the

top eateries here, which is a feat in and of itself.

Her acquaintances describe her as incredibly smart, great at maintaining relationships, sweet, and

her patrons. Everyone my

to

she hasn’t had much time to focus on any personal relationships as a

evidence that she has gone on

hasn’t been in anything

all of herself into her business, and she’s seen results. Her food is

the capital. I can’t reconcile this person with the girl

loved to cook. I just never took it seriously. I thought it was

seems to have disappeared

him. Wherever he’s working now, it hasn’t been through

If I want to find him, it won’t be quite as

staff, Abby was always really friendly. She

always loved to cook and would often

likely that the intimate photos I saw of Abby and Justin didn’t mean

not just

other evidence, though. How would her panties have

can’t think of any explanation, and the information

of the physical evidence I found.

with her without

heart shattered. I really loved her, and knowing she slept

someone else broke me.

call the doctor. I employed him back

their DNA on the fabric, including Justin’s semen. It’s

new technology has developed that can pinpoint the

only to get my wolf off

Alpha,” he says when

you do the tests I asked

results here. Just give me

for him to pull up the information

here it is.” He’s silent for a moment, and I’m not sure if I’m even breathing. “It seems

the panties appeared at least 24 hours after the marks made by the

“What does that mean?”

the wearer of the panties had them

appeared.”

shocked into silence. If that’s true, then Abby didn’t have an affair after all. It means

got ahold of her panties and did something with them I’d rather not

track him down immediately and

up the phone and lean back in

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