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

waste your

demolishing everything I thought I knew.

that any of your concern?” I find myself asking. “I don’t

knight in

He can’t meet my gaze, and instead keeps his

to the floor in front of him. “I care about you, Abby,” he says. “I love you. It pained me to

in a relationship with someone who didn’t feel the

words give me pause. I can understand his reasoning a little

should have gotten involved. It wasn’t your

meet my gaze, and it infuriates me

at my hair. To think that all this time I thought that

better person, only for this

see how he

just

have talked

his eyes darting around in that telltale manner once more.

—”

to make Karl stop, and

didn’t know I was holding. “You never knew,” I murmur. “Not before you

ingredients, at least.”

he murmurs.

honest,” I hiss. “I know you, Karl. I can tell when you’re lying. You didn’t know about his

fabricated this whole plan, did you? It just so happened

like an eternity,

that makes my heart drop into my stomach.

know at first. I just knew that he wasn’t

figured that he’d take the

scream, cry, and pass

How could you do something like

something, to justify

in his eyes, as if realizing that

words can’t fix.

“Abby, I—”

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

all this time, I really thought you were changing, becoming

I am,” he pleads, trying to take a step toward me. “Trust me, Abby. I’ve been trying so

To be the man that

out a wry chuckle. “Bu lls hit,”

him, putting as much distance between us as the room will

thing in the morning. You can stay here, and you don’t have to

restaurant with me. We’re