#Chapter 19 – His Sister
Abby

Tiffany crosses her arms, waiting for my answer. I don’t really know what to say to her. He’s the one

who divorced me, after all. It’s not like I set out to break his heart.

“I’m not the one who decided to get a divorce,” I say, opting for the truth.

She pushes her curtain of brown hair over her shoulder, revealing the muscular lines of her shoulders.

“Is that so?” novelbin

I give Karl an exasperated look. You could jump in here at any time, my gaze says. “I’m not a liar.”

If she thinks she can come in here and blame me for everything, she’s wrong. I’m not going to let her

walk all over me. Karl’s cousin or not, she has no right to make it seem like I’m the one at fault for

Karl’s behavior. Whatever he’s done in the years since our divorce, that’s on him. I’m not responsible

for his choices.

Her frown deepens, and she shoots Karl a look.

“She’s not lying. I ended things,” he says. He avoids my gaze, drinking deeply from his glass.

It doesn’t seem to get me off the h o ok, though. She looks just as bothered by me as she did before. I

can’t bring myself to care. After all the s hit that’s gone down in the past few days, the last thing I’m

worried about is whether she likes me. I’ve got enough to deal with already.

“Yes, but you had your reasons,” she answers empathetically, shooting me a venomous look. Clearly,

she knows something I don’t.

I open my mouth to ask her what she means by that exactly, but Karl speaks up before I get the

chance. “Let’s not get into this right now,” he says.

He looks weary and exhausted, and I almost feel bad for him. Almost. A part of me just wants to stand

he tell me the real reason he left me. Obviously, he seems to

not even when I begged him. I never got

his drink, and Tiffany

Tiffany,” Karl says, narrowing his eyes at her. “This isn’t about you. I

people to entertain.”

says it makes it clear exactly how he feels about these ‘important’ people. I

her and her

of the house for once. You can’t sit in here working 24/7

wanted to go to her restaurant is because I thought it might be

food for once. You know, something actually home cooked. You can’t

on supplements and booze, even though you’re clearly determined

this another time?” he says, his gaze sliding to

without me as I

be deceiving, after all.

sip of my drink, looking back and forth between them. Maybe Tiffany isn’t

obvious she cares about her cousin and wants

place. Even if her clear dislike of me

Karl put himself in

she hear this? It’s

How is any of this my fault? We really

decide to do. I didn’t drive

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

me, and I can’t help but shrink back a

it ever since I returned to the

when I force you to. How is that

it alone

with a huff. “Whatever. My bad for trying

I watch her go, my

an entrance and

says, running his hand through his hair. It falls back down into

the room and sink into

of his muscular

me talking. Under no circumstance would any

remind myself. You’re engaged to someone you really like, and you’re not going

it up. Certainly not on

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