#Chapter 34: Tiffany Demands Answers
Abby

I climb back into my seat and give Adam an apologetic look. “Sorry,” I say.

He shakes his head. “Don’t worry about it. I have to get up early, anyway.” He adjusts his seat and

gives me a small smile.“I’ll stop by tomorrow night.”

“Promise?”

“I promise.”

There’s a brief silence. Adam gestures to the paper bag sitting on the center console. “Wanna bring

those?” he asks.

I shake my head. “Nah. You can have them. Thanks, though.” I give him a quick kiss, then climb back

out onto the sidewalk. He starts his car and backs out of the spot in a fluid movement.

Karl watches him drive off, then turns to look at me. I sigh and walk away from him. At what point is

going to get the hint, and just leave me alone?

I head for my apartment door, and he follows.

“Abby,” he says, reaching for my elbow. I pull my arm out of his grasp and spin around to face him.

We’re standing close again. Too close. His touch makes me recoil, especially after he just interrupted

an intimate moment between me and my fiance.

“Why are you here, Karl?” I growl.

“Freddy interrupted us.”

“There’s nothing else to say. I’ve moved on.”

His gaze narrows, almost as though he doesn’t believe me, but I continue. “I’m getting married, and I

have a life of my own. I don’t know why you’ve insisted on inserting yourself back into my life, but I’m

not interested in playing along anymore.”

He reaches out and wraps his hand around my arm. “You and I both know that’s not true,” he says,

dipping his head toward me. My breath catches in my throat.

“It is,” I insist.

“No, it’s not. You can make out with Adam all you want, but you and I both know it’s not enough for

you.”

I pull my arm free and take a step back. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He rolls his eyes. “I know you better than you think.”

I turn from him and pull out my keys. He’s silent as I unlock the door, but I can feel him standing behind

me.

I yank the door open and walk into the building. He reaches for the door before it can close, and I force

face him. “I need space, Karl. Forcing me to talk every two

anything.”

silence will fix things,

need him to leave me

if he’s always showing

“How much time?”

hand on my chest and shove him back through the

He lets me.

he says. I know he’s talking about the argument, but

in his eyes. He really doesn’t like what he saw, but I don’t

no right to get involved when he’s the one

me all those

fault,” I say. “Goodbye,

the lock clicking into place. He hovers in the doorway,

reach the landing and look back, he’s

——————

Karl

drink and rub my heads with my fingers. A dull pain pulses in my left temple, and I

be long until it’s impossible to ignore. The headache has been coming on all day,

to be

I deserve the pain. Maybe it’s some sort of karma. I hurt the person I

even happened, and now

office door, and I

“It’s open,” I call.

door opens, and Tiffany strides into the room. She gives me a

another sip of my drink. Judging by the look on her face, I’m

need it.

my drink and get up to get another. Drinking

form of stress relief I’ve

pour another glass. “Want something?”

“No.”

decanter and walk back over to my chair.

stern. She’s clearly here to chew me out about something, but it’s hard

love seems to be her favorite way to deal with me lately. She thinks I’m

really argue with her.

the divorce. But I’ve managed to survive without Tiffany mothering

to have to let me handle my sh it on my

up Tiffany?” I ask with

“Maybe I just wanted to say hello

“Okay?”

cousin, who you made a fool of last

go up.

spoken to her, I take

came by last night.” I twirl the liquid around, watching it slosh up

was not

seem happy

how they even got on the topic. Why would they talk about

ask. “I didn’t

other night,” she says with

She was

“Adam. Her financé.”

They were dancing. They

exactly the kind of thing I’d rather not

another man. I really need to do something about

prompt. She must notice my discomfort because a small smile emerges on her face.

obviously delighting in this.

to warn him. You know, after what she

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