#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

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

deigned to tell me, not even when I begged him. I never got

drink, and Tiffany

eyes at her. “This isn’t

people to entertain.”

way he says it makes it clear exactly how

for Tiffany. He obviously finds her and her friends a little silly. Tiffany clenches her

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

G od, the whole reason I wanted to go to her restaurant is

have some real food for once. You

and booze, even though you’re

this another time?” he says, his gaze sliding

His life might be as perfect without me as I thought it was.

be deceiving, after all.

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

cares about her cousin and wants to help him. Sure, she has

she’s coming from a good place. Even if her clear dislike of me seems a

put

this? It’s kind of her

I exclaim. How is any of this my fault? We really need to

didn’t drive him to booze

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

I lying?” She glares at me, and I

returned to the pack. You

people when

it alone

a huff. “Whatever. My bad for trying to

room. I watch her go, my eyebrows raised.

make an

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

I can’t help the urge to cross the room and sink into his

the strength of his muscular things beneath me. But

just drunk me talking. Under no circumstance would

someone you really like, and you’re

Certainly

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