#Chapter 92: The Butler’s Secret — Part I

Karl

As I watch the train speed away, a new form of emptiness settles in my stomach.

Abby is pissed at me; I know that. I know that what I did with Adam was messed up, and I guess I

hoped in some sort of naive way that she would never find out. Well, she found out. And she’s furious.

Hell, she might not even want to see me ever again.

“You’ve got to fix this,” my wolf growls, his voice stern in the back of my mind.

“You think I don’t know that?” snap back internally as I begin to make my way back to the car. “But at

this point, I don’t even know if Abby will listen to me anymore. You saw how pissed she was this

morning.”

“Make her listen, then. She’ll cool off and will be more willing to hear you out with time.”

“And what until then?” I ask. “What the hell am I supposed to do while I wait for her to miraculously

‘cool off’?”

My wolf pauses for a moment. I put the car in drive and pull out of the parking lot, and that’s when he

speaks up again.

“You can start with that awful secretary of yours,” he finally says. “Show Abby where your loyalties lie.

That secretary has been a point of contention since the beginning.”

As much as I hate to admit it, I know that my wolf is right. Gianna has been a problem, even more so

now that I know what her true motives are. If she really has had feelings for me all these years, I would

have to wonder whether these feelings of hers ever impacted certain things.

In fact, I remember Abby mentioning on multiple occasions that she had to make an appointment with

my secretary just to see me; which, now that I think about it, was never true.

At the time, I thought that Abby was just misremembering things, or maybe exaggerating because she

was angry. But now I know better. Gods, I should’ve listened to Abby from the beginning.

ways like that, even back then? Trying to

with me?

now. But, this thought has given me

a side road

to

wolf nodding in approval as I knock

hand, never having fully latched after its last use. I decide to

only to halt

my ever-reliable butler, is sitting there, casually chatting

wide while

standing. “How

are you doing here, Gerald?” I ask. I didn’t know

not giving anything

just leaving. I’ll see you

meets my gaze

her straight in the eye.

Abby were not only inappropriate but also

my hand to stop her. “Let me finish. If you

advance toward me, you’re fired.

widen. “Karl, you can’t be serious. I thought

off sharply, knowing

love you, Gianna. I’m sorry, but I never have and I never will. Abby is my fated mate,

Luna again. If you have

elsewhere.”

for a moment I think she’s going to argue.

shoulders

well,” she murmurs, looking down at her desk to avoid meeting

say anything else. I turn on my heels and walk out of the room, leaving

her

way back home, ascending the grand staircase that leads to my office. The air feels

with a mixture of dread and

next step,” I think to my wolf. “I’ve decided that I’m

going to make her see exactly why

chair, then open up a new document on my laptop. My fingers

turns out, it’s much more difficult than I thought to

the blinking cursor on the screen. It

distant.

that’ll win her back?” my wolf asks with

screen is empty

please hear me out—”

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