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.

suffer.” She confesses, “you two were

sigh, “I know you want 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 chance that I might

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whiney voice grating

the 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

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 when

shoved him out the door

these events further, Ethan was stuck in Eve’s atelier listening to her complain about

was fraud whether you knew it would harm your customers or

called the business’s governing board. Within hours, the body held an emergency meeting with its most prominent shareholders, with most members advocating to replace Eve as CEO.

fair!” Eve whimpered, “I only did it to help the shop make more money. La Louve is so unbelievably expensive, I thought that

two sets of books you’ve been keeping, you didn’t plan

I would do such a thing!”

a minute,” Ethan interrupted, replaying her previous words in his

does that

answer the question, Eve.”

line is

too much of a coincidence. That was the fragrance brand the woman in the bakery was wearing, the same scent that was in the Atelier where Paisley

never… you’re the one who gave me the start-up loan.” She moaned, “I love you so

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