Chasing His Kickass Luna Back by Jane Above Story

#Chapter 90: Sabotaged
Abby

At the mention of the email and the rare ingredients, Karl’s face turns pale. Seeing him like this

instantly fills me with an odd sense of dread as my mind begins to whirl with unending questions: why

did Adam send him that email? Why did Karl give him rare ingredients? When did Karl give him rare

ingredients?

“Karl, please tell me what’s wrong,” I say again, more urgently this time.

He takes a deep breath, then finally speaks. “I bought a ton of ingredients for Adam,” he admits, his

voice barely above a whisper. “Rare ones. For his restaurant.”

My heart is in my throat. “For Adam’s restaurant? But why?” I ask, genuinely confused.

“He asked, and I just figured I would help him out,” he murmured. But as he speaks, his eyes dart away

from me, indicating that he’s lying. I’ve always been able to tell when he’s pulling my leg.

“You’d better not be trying to lie to me right now,” I warn, my voice brittle. “I know you too well for that.”

His shoulders slump, and he looks down at his hands, gripping the edge of the bed with white knuckles.

“Alright, fine,” he finally says, his voice low. “It wasn’t that.”

“Then what was it?” I press, but deep down, judging from Karl’s appearance I’m not sure whether I

want to know the answer or not.

Karl hesitates, then takes another ragged breath as though trying to steady himself. “I gave the

ingredients to Adam to bribe him into… into breaking up with you.”

The room spins. My head is swimming with thoughts, feelings, questions. I can’t fathom why Karl would

do such a thing, and I jump up to my feet, my voice rising an octave. “You what? You bribed him to

break up with me? But why?”

“Because, Abby,” Karl’s voice is shaky, “I knew he was g ay, and that he wasn’t being honest with you.

The ingredients were a way to convince him to be just that: honest. To come clean about his

you wouldn’t waste your time on something that wasn’t

words hit me like a sledgehammer, demolishing everything I thought I

any of your concern?” I find

knight in

face still as pale as before. He can’t meet my gaze, and instead keeps his

floor in front of him. “I care about you, Abby,” he says. “I love you.

up in a relationship with someone

his reasoning a little bit, but

gotten involved. It wasn’t your

can’t meet my gaze, and it infuriates me

that all this time

better person, only for this to happen, makes

see how he

I just wanted

could have talked to

could have,” he says, his eyes darting around

—”

hand up to make Karl

“You never

ingredients, at least.”

murmurs.

know you, Karl. I can tell when

did you? It just so happened

what feels like an eternity, Karl finally meets my eyes, and there’s

there that makes my heart drop into my

know at first. I just knew that he

figured that he’d take

I want to scream,

“I can’t believe this, Karl. How could you do something

to justify himself, but he

defeated look in his

words can’t fix.

“Abby, I—”

I cut him off, my voice breaking. “Just don’t even

changing,

pleads, trying to take a step toward me.

To be the man that

let out a

much distance between

stay here, and you don’t have to worry

me. We’re