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 hear

okay?”

kitchen, but there’s a wavering sense of emotion in

can’t quite hide. Seeing him makes me want to cry, laugh, and scream

once.

since I last saw him, and yet somehow it feels

I can

seems unperturbed by my demands and takes another step forward, his eyes wide

if

Abby, I just wanted to

my voice failing to hide the unmistakable

you did what you did with Adam. Leave.

In fact, he does more than

the distance between us, backing me up against the wall. I feel myself stiffen as

pulling me into the warmth of

him to get the hell out of

kitchen. But I can’t.

much as I hate to admit it, his arms around me feel like a missing

inside me stir, her senses heightening at his

accumulating inside me starts to

you can’t just walk in here like you still belong,”

trying to put some semblance of distance between us, both

if it works. “Not after what you

concedes, his arms loosening around me but not entirely breaking

did, Abby. But

he still has a right to be a part of my

anger,

almost seems to pace restlessly inside of me, equally

suspicion that she’s more agitated at me right now than at him, as angry as it makes

of yourself,” I finally snap, glaring at him with unrestrained fury. “You

fully well what they would mean for us—what it

You manipulated the man

he says,

hiss. “What matters is that you

him into leaving behind my back. Do you have

does something

face turning a shade that stands in stark

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

me back to a past life, a