Chapter 10 Sisters meet

Where fear consumed me moments before, now anger floods my senses. Linda and I never fight, but I can’t believe her

audacity. She knows better than anyone what Ethan put me through, and now it seems like she’s forgetting it, simply because he put on a good show as the grieving widower.

“Linda, if he’s sad I’m gone, it’s for one reason and one reason only.” | snap, “Because he misses having a personal sex toy.. He misses having a mindless omega whose body he can control, who can’t deny him even if they wanted to.”

I open my mouth to continue, but Linda holds up a staying hand. “Please hear me out, Jane. If not for you, then for the other pups.” She beseeches, sounding truly distressed. “You haven’t been here. You haven’t seen him with Paisley. He’s such a good father.”

“So what!” I demand hotly.

“So,” Linda replies, dragging out the word pointedly. “Children need a father. The boys need a male role model and Riley needs a man in her life to help her build healthy expectations

for a mate.”

“Linda,” I growl, “I’ve been both mother and father to my pups this far and I’ve done a damned good job. I don’t care if you don’t think I’m enough for them, because I know I am.”

“That isn’t what I meant!” Linda insists. “I know what a good job you’ve done, and I know you’ll provide those kids with everything they need in life. I just think that if there’s a chance for you to be a family again… it’s worth trying.”

“We already are a family.” I remind her coldly.

“you two were so in love when you got married. I want you to

his true

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please, you can’t let them do this!” Eve begged, her whiney voice grating

her when everything went wrong with Jane, but over the years she’d only gotten more

best efforts, he was certain she wasn’t being completely honest with him. Her anemic explanations for her strange behavior when she brought Paisley home were far from convincing, and she was much too nervous

shoved him out the door at

Eve’s atelier listening to her complain about accidentally poisoning

He rumbled sternly, “It was fraud whether you knew it would harm your customers or not!

board. Within hours, the body held an emergency meeting with its most prominent shareholders, with most members advocating to replace Eve as CEO. Ethan would have been in attendance himself if Paisley hadn’t gone missing, and now Eve was under the mistaken impression that his presence might

it to help the shop make more money. La Louve is so

profit margins?” He demanded, “based on the two sets of books you’ve been keeping, you didn’t plan

no…you can’t believe I would do such

Ethan interrupted, replaying her previous words in his head. “Did you say La

that have to

question, Eve.”

line is

fragrance brand the woman in the bakery was wearing, the same scent that was in the

me the start-up loan.” She moaned,

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