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

the best for me, Linda. But please trust me, I only thought we were in love. Ethan showed his true colors long ago, and there isn’t any

3rd Person

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

impulse to roll his eyes. The very last thing he wanted to be doing at this moment is babysitting Eve. He had plenty of sympathy for her when everything went wrong with Jane, but over the years she’d only gotten more entitled and less trustworthy – so much so that he’d begun to doubt what truly happened

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

and practically shoved him

instead of investigating these events further, Ethan was stuck in Eve’s atelier listening to her

would harm your

with its most prominent shareholders, with most members advocating to replace

so unbelievably expensive, I thought that if we could come up

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

can’t believe I would do such a

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

that

the question, Eve.”

squeaked, “The perfume line

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

one who gave me the start-up loan.” She moaned, “I love you so

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255