#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

real reason he left

me, not even when I begged him.

drink, and

eyes at her. “This isn’t about you.

people to entertain.”

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

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

get you out of the house for

the whole reason I wanted to go to her restaurant is because I thought it might

some real food for once. You know, something actually home cooked. You

supplements and booze, even

he says, his gaze sliding to me. Obviously, he doesn’t want

as perfect without me as I thought it was.

be deceiving, after all.

drink, looking back and forth between them. Maybe Tiffany

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

a good place. Even

considering Karl put himself in this

hear this? It’s kind of her

my fault? We really need to stop blaming each other for

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

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

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

I’ve noticed it ever since I returned to the pack. You never

out and see other people when I

it

with a huff. “Whatever. My bad for trying to

room. I watch her go, my eyebrows raised.

an

his hair. It

the room and sink into his lap. I want to run my

of his muscular things beneath

Under no circumstance

engaged, I remind myself. You’re engaged to someone you

up. Certainly not on Karl’s

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