Chasing His Kickass Luna Back by Jane Above Story

“I feel a little bit like a failure,” he suddenly blurts out. “Like what my pack is

saying about me… that I’m a bad Alpha… might be true.”

My eyes widen. “Karl! Don’t—”

“Abby,” he says, tilting his head back to look up at the sky, “I came here—to this

city—for you. To win you back. No other reason. And I practically abandoned my

pack. I’ve been dealing with everything over the phone, over email.”

His words make my heart sink. I guess I knew that it was true, but hearing it out

loud like this kind of hurts, I’ll admit, and not in the way I would have thought.

I feel a little guilty—guilty for stringing him along like this, guilty for keeping him

here for so long, guilty for allowing him to shirk his responsibilities and lose

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approval as Alpha, all so I could keep him on a leash in case I ever decided to

get back together with him.

And what really sucks is that even now, even as he’s telling me this, I’m still not

I don’t know if

he’s done for me, and it must hurt him more than I could ever

each lost in our

fingers.

keep straying to his lips, remembering the feel of

happen again. But the gravity

isn’t the

I murmur, wanting to change the subject, at least a

Alpha party?” The words come out softer than

sense of loss I never

he confirms. “Unless you plan on

and joining me

laugh, even as my heart clenches at the thought. “Tempting.

pride and all

a soft smile lifting the corners of his mouth. “Of

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but the space between us

unspoken emotions.

liquid courage could make this

to frame the words that are clawing at

if I lose tomorrow, I’ll still be your date

If you want me to be, that

meet mine, and for a moment, the world around us falls away.