#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

when I begged him.

sip from his drink, and Tiffany shakes her

Tiffany,” Karl says, narrowing his eyes at her. “This isn’t about you. I thought

people to entertain.”

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

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

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

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

you to have some real food for once. You

even though you’re

talk about this another time?” he says, his gaze sliding to

hear this. His life might be as perfect without me as I thought

be deceiving, after all.

drink, looking back and forth between them. Maybe Tiffany isn’t as shallow as I

her cousin and wants to

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

considering Karl put himself in

this?

this my fault? We really need to stop

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

decision.

“Tiffany!” Karl growls.

says. “Am I lying?” She glares at me, and I can’t help but shrink

ever since I returned to the pack. You never sleep. You hardly eat.

out and see other people when

it

a huff. “Whatever. My bad for trying

she stalks from the room. I watch her go, my eyebrows raised. She

make an entrance and

hand through his hair. It falls

to cross the room and sink into his lap. I

lips on me, the strength of his

no circumstance would any of

engaged to someone you really like, and you’re not going

Certainly not

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