#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

reason he left me. Obviously, he seems to have

not even when I begged him. I never

long sip from his drink, and Tiffany

says, narrowing his eyes at her. “This isn’t

people to entertain.”

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

finds her and her friends a

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

go to her restaurant is because I thought

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

even though

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

be as perfect without me as

be deceiving, after all.

drink, looking back and forth between

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

a good place. Even if

put himself

she hear this? It’s

is any of this my fault? We really need to

men in our lives decide to do. I didn’t drive him to booze and

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

She glares at me, and I can’t help but shrink back

I returned to the pack. You never

see other people when I force you to. How

leave it

“Whatever. My bad for trying to help you.” She

she stalks from the room. I watch

to make an entrance and an

his hand through his hair. It falls back down into his

can’t help the urge to cross the room and sink into his lap. I want to run my fingers through

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

circumstance would any of that

You’re engaged to someone you really

Certainly not on Karl’s

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