#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

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

not even when I begged him.

a long sip from his drink, and Tiffany shakes her head. “Why

at her. “This isn’t about

people to entertain.”

clear exactly how he feels

He obviously finds her and her friends a

of the house for once. You can’t sit in here

to go to

to have some real food for once. You know, something

even though you’re

time?” he says, his gaze sliding to me. Obviously,

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 as shallow

she cares about her cousin and wants

Even if her clear dislike of me

put himself in

this? It’s

my fault? We really need to stop

the men in our lives decide to do. I didn’t drive

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

lying?” She glares at me, and I can’t help but shrink back a little. “You’ve

to the pack. You

out and see other people when I

it alone

for

at him as she stalks from the room. I watch

to make an entrance and an

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

urge to cross the room and sink into

his lips on me, the strength of his muscular things beneath me. But

me talking. Under no circumstance would any of that be a

engaged to someone you really

up. Certainly not on

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