Chasing His Kickass Luna Back by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0153
Abby

“Need a hand?”

Just as I’m about to toss the greasy pan into the soapy water to soak overnight and call it a night, I hear

the all-too-familiar voice call out from behind me, and everything seems to stop. It’s all I can do to stiffly

turn around, my eyes widening and my heart pounding.

There he is, standing in the doorway, his hands in his pockets and his hair slightly tousled. I should be

excited to see him, but I’m not.

The nerve of him, showing up like this, after everything.

“Karl?”

“Hey, Abby.” A soft smile graces his lips, but instead of charming me like it used to, it just fills me with

rage.

“Karl, what the hell are you doing here?” My voice comes out so low that it’s hardly more than a growl.

He pauses, as though searching for the right words. Finally, when he speaks, it somehow fills me with

even more rage than before. “I miss you, Abby. Let’s work this out.”

“Work this out?” I think to myself. The thought of it almost makes me laugh, but at the same time, I

can’t hold in my rage anymore. In a knee-jerk reaction, I rip off my apron and hurl it at him, although I

would really prefer to hurl the frying pan instead.

“Get out, Karl!” I spit the words out like venom, my voice laden with a mixture of anger, surprise, and a

hint of betrayal. “You have no right to be here! I’m not working anything out with you!”

Karl, calm and collected as ever, dodges the flying apron. His eyes never leave mine, and his

expression remains surprisingly level and open. He steps forward, cautiously, as if approaching a

wounded animal.

tinged with an emotion I can’t quite place. “Just

okay?”

the kitchen,

tone that I can’t quite hide. Seeing him makes me want to

once.

a week since I last saw him, and yet somehow it feels like

across the room from one another, I can

my demands and takes another step forward, his

like sincerity if

wanted

wanted to talk?” I scoff, my voice failing to hide the unmistakable waver in it. “You

when you did what you

fact,

me up against the wall. I feel myself stiffen

around me, pulling me into the

him to get the hell out of my

kitchen. But I can’t.

it, his arms around me feel like a missing piece snapping back

her senses heightening at his touch, her

accumulating inside me

like you still belong,” I

to put some semblance

if it works. “Not after what you

know,” he concedes, his arms loosening around me but not entirely

what I did, Abby. But

has a right to be a part of my life. I’m

wrestling with anger, confusion, and a haunting sense of

almost seems to pace restlessly inside of me,

she’s more agitated at me right now than at him, as angry as

ashamed of yourself,” I finally snap, glaring at

ingredients, knowing fully well what they

manipulated the man I loved into

Abby,” he

hiss. “What matters is that you decided to take it into

leaving behind my back. Do you have any idea

does

face turning a shade that stands in

hands in his. His skin is warm, and for a fleeting

a past