#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.

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

with me?

has given me a new resolve, and I swerve

road

need to

feel my wolf nodding in approval as I knock

after

only to

butler, is sitting there, casually chatting with her at the

while Gerald plasters a friendly smile

Karl,” he says, standing.

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

giving anything

I was just leaving. I’ll see you at the house

my gaze again. “Karl… What brings

door and look her straight in the eye. “Gianna, we need to talk about last night.

about Abby were not only inappropriate but also

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

make another unwarranted advance toward me, you’re fired. No second

widen. “Karl, you can’t be serious. I

sharply, knowing what her

but I never have and I

intend to make her my Luna again. If you

elsewhere.”

at me, her eyes filling with tears, and for

shoulders slumping in

murmurs, looking down at her desk to avoid

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

with her own

ascending the grand staircase that leads to

I take, laden with a mixture

think to my wolf. “I’ve decided that

her see exactly why I did what

chair, then open up a new document on

turns out, it’s much more difficult

Abby,” I begin, then pause, staring at the blinking cursor

distant.

my wolf

press the backspace key until the screen is empty again. “Alright, let’s try

please hear me out—”

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