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

what I want. I don’t know if I want to get back together,

for me, and it must

into silence, each lost in our thoughts, the wine

fingers.

his lips,

But the gravity of what he’s shared

the time for

wanting to change the subject,

until the Alpha party?” The

of loss I

he confirms. “Unless you plan on forfeiting

and joining

laugh, even as my heart

pride and

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

the famous chef bow out,

mood, but the

glance laden with unspoken emotions. We

liquid courage could

of how to frame the words that are clawing

if I lose tomorrow, I’ll still

want me to be,

moment, the world around us falls