#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.

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

with me?

knowing now. But, this thought has

a side road toward

to have

can almost feel my wolf nodding in approval as I knock on the

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

to halt in

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

while Gerald plasters a friendly smile on

says, standing.

I didn’t know that the two of them were

a friendly catch-up,” Gerald replies, his face not giving anything away. He grabs

smiles. “Actually, I was just leaving. I’ll see you at

my gaze

straight in the eye. “Gianna,

Abby were not only

to stop her. “Let

that again, or make another unwarranted advance toward me,

widen. “Karl, you can’t be serious.

cut her off sharply, knowing what her implications will be before

I never have

make her my Luna again. If you have a problem with that, then you

elsewhere.”

filling with tears, and for a moment

her shoulders slumping in

she murmurs, looking down at her desk to avoid meeting

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

her

make my way back home, ascending the grand staircase that

each step I take, laden with a mixture of

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

that’s going to make her

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

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

pause, staring at the blinking cursor on the screen.

distant.

back?” my wolf asks

press the backspace key until the screen is empty again.

please hear me out—”

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