#Chapter 30: Fallout
Abby
“I can’t. I’m busy here. I’ve told you a million times that I’m going to help Abby as long as she needs
me.”
“Your pack needs you.”
I bite my lip and force myself to breathe quietly. I need to be ready to dash away if they make a move
toward the door. Hopefully, I hear them before it’s too late. Even with the risk, I can’t help but lean a
little closer to hear his response.
“Abby’s my priority.” My eyebrows fly up. No matter how many times he says it, it still shocks me.
“And I trust Christian. He’s a great Beta, and I know he has everything under control. I’ve been
checking in with him every night. If he really needed me, he’d let me know.”
“Please, I’m desperate for you to come back to work.”
Karl is silent for a moment, and I take a half step back, expecting him to fling open the door any
moment. But he doesn’t. “Look, I’m not going to argue with you about this,” he finally says. “Unless
there’s an emergency, I’m here to stay. Christian is more than capable.”
I move back behind the counter when there’s another long silence. There’s no point in pushing it. I’ve
heard all I needed to hear, anyway. Clearly, Karl wasn’t lying to me when he said he wanted to put me
first for once. His secretary was practically begging for him to come back, and he still refused.
Unfortunately, it clears nothing up for me. Why the sudden dedication to my work? Why stay here when
he’s the top-dog somewhere else? It doesn’t make sense when I compare him to the man I used to
know.
Is it possible he’s actually made a change, and that’s it not all for show?
sliver of hope
man I married, before everything got so
best friend back?
true, but hope is like a leech. Once it’s
a little pain, at
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picks me up from work and drives
want to do is hurt his feelings. It’s not like there’s an easy way to tell
your relationship. What if he thinks I’m accusing him?
he isn’t, he’s
was work today?” he asks, handing me a
“It was fine.”
Karl? How’s he been
pull myself onto
get into it,” I say, thinking about the intimate moment
sensation of his hand on mine, its warmth, the rough calluses on
tie. “That
another sip of wine. Then another. I’m definitely in need of some
that surprised,” he
puts the empty bottle with the others. It’s crazy how
spends so much time here. He either brings over
always brings expensive stuff, and it more than makes
mine
“Yeah, me neither.”
there, I thought Karl really had changed. It seemed
he just finally bent Jack to his will. It’s hard to contradict him. He just has
do whatever he
an adjustment period,”
“That’s generous of you.”
being an Alpha has really prepared him for work
standing up for him?”
shaking his head. “Go d,
very okay with him working
this is a good place to start. I still can’t get over the feeling that he
bush. I’m sure he’s made his intentions very
doesn’t seem
whatever he wants. Hell, he
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