#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.

like that, even

with me?

now. But, this thought has given me a new resolve,

side road toward Gianna’s

to have

wolf nodding in approval as I knock on the door

fully latched after its last use. I decide to poke

to

chatting with her at the

wide while Gerald plasters a

Mr. Karl,” he says, standing.

Gerald?” I ask. I didn’t know that the two of them

face not giving anything away. He grabs his

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

gaze again. “Karl… What brings you

straight in the eye. “Gianna, we need to

about Abby were not only inappropriate but

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

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

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

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

never

again. If you have a problem with that, then

elsewhere.”

and for a moment I think she’s

her shoulders

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

else. I turn on my heels and walk out

with her own

home, ascending the grand staircase that leads to my office.

laden with a mixture of dread

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

to make her see exactly why I did what

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

it’s much more difficult than I thought to draft

blinking cursor on the screen. It feels too

distant.

back?” my wolf asks with

press the backspace key until the screen is empty again.

please hear me out—”

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