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.

she’d told me, her voice heavy with

my friends, then don’t expect any

face, the weight of the past settling on my shoulders.

be?” I ask out loud. “If I ever have a chance

around her friends who can’t stand

my wolf remarks, a touch of reproach in his

her. What do you

okay? I know I screwed up. And I’m working d mn hard

snap, my voice tinged with bitterness. “But it’s like no one

give me a chance

“She might not

allow you back into her life, even in

has.”

the words sink in, a tiny glimmer of hope in a sea

the changes

to rebuild what I’ve

then, my phone buzzes on the coffee table, ripping me from my internal monologue.

my ever-efficient

“Hello?”

she says without preamble. “Your Council has called

meeting. Can you come?”

since I moved

it off

gritting my teeth. “I’ll be

life—the life I left behind and the

act, and sometimes I

cue, my phone buzzes again, pulling me back to the present. This time, it’s Abby. My

sense of dread mingling with anticipation. It’s late.

calling?

to keep

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

lost. And—”

I’m coming to get you,” I interrupt, my heart

evaporate, replaced by a primal

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

I’m in my car in record time, my

I find myself mulling over what

throwing flour at each other like a couple of lovestruck teens,

of her life because her best friend tells her to keep her distance. And now

her up in the middle of the night when she

really the villain in their narrative, or just a casualty of

my phone indicates that

streets, eventually catching sight of