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.

bear to see you suffer.” She confesses, “you two were so

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 find happiness with him again. When it comes to Alphas and omegas, there

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let them do this!” Eve begged, her whiney voice grating at Ethan’s

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

on his mind. Despite Linda’s best efforts, he was certain she wasn’t being completely honest with him. Her anemic explanations for her strange behavior when she

him

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

rumbled sternly, “It was fraud whether you knew it would harm your customers or not! As far as I’m concerned, the board is right to be considering

products and had them removed from the shop, she immediately 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. Ethan would have been

money. La Louve is so unbelievably expensive,

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

do such a thing!” She

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

that have to do

the question, Eve.” The

line is owned by

That was the fragrance brand the woman in the bakery was wearing, the same scent that was in the Atelier where Paisley insisted she saw Jane…

one who gave me the start-up loan.”

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