#Chapter 11 – Warning
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Karl hands me the report, his expression unreadable. I can feel his gaze on me as I pick up the stack of
papers and scan the first page.
“That’s everything my people could find,” he says.
I look up at him and nod.
It took an hour to get the report, and we spent most of it in tense silence. His staff brought in tea, which
we both drank quietly, his with Kahlua, mine black. Then he had to take a few calls while I sat and
pretended not to listen. The worst, though, was when he ran out of things to do, and we just stared at
each other across the desk for ten minutes.
I could tell, with every passing minute, that he wanted to bring up what he said about reconciling.
Thankfully, he didn’t. He could probably pick up on the fact that I wasn’t in the most receptive mood. I’m
more than happy to put that conversation off for as long as possible. Even with all that quiet time to
think, I still don’t know how I feel about it. About him.
He falls silent as I read, and I can feel him looking at me. I do my best to ignore the weight of his gaze,
but it makes me shift a bit in my seat. Even now, the full intensity of his attention makes me want to
squirm. He’s always had that effect on people, but it’s been a while since I’ve been on the receiving
end.
When I’m done reading, I look up at him. “So, it wasn’t you.”
“It wasn’t me.”
Even though he probably deserves an apology, I can’t seem to bring myself to give him one. Sure, I
might have come storming in here with zero evidence and a bit of a vendetta, but we haven’t been on
the best of terms for a while now. He can’t really blame me for thinking it was him. Wouldn’t he suspect
me too if something like this happened to him?
“I can’t believe this,” I say, dropping the report back down on the desk when I’m done reading. The
takes a moment to sink in. “Another restaurant
He nods.
away from the desk, running my
me? I’ve never had any issues with
it,” he says. He watches me pace back and forth
raised. “They paid off a bunch of regulators. It wasn’t easy
what happened.”
people are good at
he says, pride slipping into his voice. I can’t help but think the Moon River pack
about them. He takes genuine
his job before, but I can see that
I stop in front of his desk and wring my
targeting the same customers.”
shrugs. “When there’s a conflict of interest,
“I’ll go after them.”
his chair. He rounds the desk and stops in front of
head back to look into his eyes. He’s so much taller than me. The top of my
barely reaches his chin.
I say, a
of this for you.” He places his hand on my shoulder and gives
distant part of me demands that I shake off his arm. After
it. I don’t want to. It feels good to let
someone take care of
I nod. “Alright.”
have a serious
bite my lip. It’s not a conversation I’m keen on having, but if he’s helping me with this,
to refuse. Talking to him is the least I
test the waters. “What if I don’t need your
Alpha, but still true. Theoretically,
him.
get it done in 30 minutes,” he says. “You’ll be able
reservation.”
thought for sure I’d be out of business for at least
impossible to refuse his
you have
teleports to a house across town. It’s
owner does well for himself. The neighborhood is nice, lined with towering
there’s a sleek black Jag parked
door, and a few minutes later it opens. The
his
the man splutters. “You can’t just
where it opens into
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