#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

the real reason he left me.

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

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

says, narrowing his eyes at her.

people to entertain.”

makes it clear exactly how he feels about

little bad for Tiffany. He obviously finds her and her friends

just trying to get you out of the house for once. You

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

real food for once. You know, something actually

even though you’re

we talk about this another time?” he says, his gaze sliding to me. Obviously, he doesn’t

as perfect without me as I thought it was. Social

be deceiving, after all.

forth between them. Maybe Tiffany isn’t as shallow

her cousin and wants to

a good place. Even

Karl put himself in this

this? It’s kind of

is any of this my fault? We really need to

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

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

lying?” She glares at me, and I can’t

ever since I returned to the pack.

other people when I force you

it alone for

“Whatever. My bad for trying to

room. I watch her go, my eyebrows raised. She

an

his hair.

sink into his lap. I

his muscular things beneath me. But I

circumstance would any of that be a good

someone you really like, and you’re not

up. Certainly not on Karl’s

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