#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.

discord in little ways like that, even back then? Trying

with me?

now. But, this thought has given me a

side road toward

need to

wolf nodding in approval as

after its last use. I decide to poke

to halt

butler, is sitting there, casually chatting with her

heads up, Gianna’s eyes going wide while Gerald plasters a friendly smile on

Mr. Karl,” he says, standing.

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

not giving anything away. He grabs his

“Actually, I was just leaving. I’ll

gaze again.

in the eye. “Gianna, we need

Abby were not only

interrupt, but I raise my hand to stop her. “Let me finish. If you

that again, or make another unwarranted advance toward me, you’re

can’t be serious. I thought

I cut her off sharply, knowing what her implications will be before she even

Gianna. I’m sorry, but I never have and I never

you have a problem with that, then

elsewhere.”

filling with tears, and for a

her shoulders slumping in

murmurs, looking down at her desk

her to say anything else. I turn on my heels and walk out

her

home, ascending the grand staircase

laden with a

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

going to make her see exactly why I did what I

my leather chair, then open up a new

much more difficult than I thought to draft the perfect

then pause, staring at the blinking cursor on the screen.

distant.

really think that’ll win her back?” my

until the screen is empty again. “Alright,

please hear me out—”

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