Chasing His Kickass Luna Back by Jane Above Story

#Chapter 58: Getaway Driver
I’m pacing my living room, a glass of whiskey in hand, lost in my thoughts. The night has been a

coc ktail of emotions—high spirits at the party, laughter with Abby… And then, of course, there was the

palpable tension with Chloe.

I thought I had managed to keep my feelings under wraps, maintain the casual facade. But Chloe had

to go and ruin it, filling the air with words like poison darts.

“Stay away from him,” she had whispered to Abby, not knowing that I was within earshot.

Who the hell does she think she is?

I throw myself onto the leather chair, my fingers gripping the armrests, the echo of Chloe’s words still

fresh in my mind. “Stay away from him,” she had said, as though her voice could erect a wall between

Abby and me—a wall I’m not certain even I could scale at this point.

“What is her problem?” I growl to myself, my thoughts a whirlwind of frustration.

“She clearly dislikes you,” my wolf interjects, his voice a rumbling presence in the depths of my

consciousness.

“You think I can’t see that? And it’s not the first time, either,” I retort, my mind slipping back in time, to

another party, another confrontation.

It had been a similar occasion. Friends, laughter, a lively atmosphere.

Abby had been radiant, the center of my universe. But then Chloe had started arguing with me. About

what, I can barely remember.

What I do recall is the anger, my territorial instincts flaring up, the undeniable urge to assert my

dominance. I had ended up kicking her out of the party.

The aftermath was equally vivid. Abby had been furious, her eyes ablaze with a fire I had rarely seen.

“You’re trying to ruin my friendships, Karl,” she had yelled, her voice strained with emotion. She had left

with Chloe, her best friend, her confidant. Abby hadn’t come home for two days. When she finally did,

the atmosphere between us had been colder than a winter night.

to Chloe,” she’d told me, her voice heavy with disappointment when I tried

be nice to my friends, then don’t expect any

groan, dragging my hands down my face, the weight of the past settling on my shoulders.

I ask out loud. “If I ever have a chance with Abby again, am I going

her friends who can’t stand

touch of reproach

her. What

screwed up. And I’m working d mn hard to be a better man—to be

bitterness. “But it’s like no one can see that.

willing to give me a chance

it,” my wolf whispers, his voice softening. “She

change in you. Otherwise, she wouldn’t allow you back into her life, even in the small

has.”

lean back into the chair, letting the words sink in, a tiny

wolf is right. Maybe Abby does see the changes in me. And

rebuild what

the coffee table, ripping me

my ever-efficient

“Hello?”

come home next weekend,” she says without preamble. “Your Council

meeting. Can you come?”

I’ve been skirting ever since

off any

my

my double life—the life I left behind and the one

constant juggling act, and sometimes I drop

cue, my phone buzzes again, pulling me

button, a sense of dread mingling with anticipation. It’s late. Why

calling?

I answer, trying to keep

tinged with anxiety. “I had to get off the subway.

lost. And—”

your location. I’m coming to get you,” I interrupt,

evaporate, replaced by a primal

head for the door, locking my apartment with an urgency that

record time, my

mulling over what the hell is going on between Abby

we’re throwing flour at each other like

tells her to keep

up in the middle of the

the villain in their narrative, or just

indicates that I’m nearing Abby’s location.

streets, eventually catching sight of her standing