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 want. I don’t know if

it must hurt him more than I could

each lost in our thoughts, the

fingers.

lips, remembering the

it will happen again. But the gravity of what he’s

This isn’t the time

change the subject, at least a little bit,

The words come out softer

loss

“Unless you

joining me

my heart

pride and all

lifting the corners of his mouth. “Of course.

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the mood, but the space between us still feels loaded,

emotions. We both take

the liquid courage could make

start, unsure of how to frame the

I lose tomorrow, I’ll still be your

you want me to be, that

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