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.

see you suffer.” She confesses, “you two were so in love when you got married.

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,

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

her when everything went wrong with Jane, but over the years she’d only gotten more entitled and less trustworthy – so much so that

her strange behavior when she brought Paisley home were far from convincing, and she was much too nervous when he brought up

and practically shoved him out the door at

in Eve’s atelier listening to her complain about accidentally poisoning

would harm your customers or not! As far as I’m concerned, the board

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

more money. La Louve is so unbelievably expensive, I thought that if we could

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

would do such

words in his head.

sniffed, “What does that

question, Eve.” The

squeaked, “The perfume line is owned by La

coincidence. 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… Ethan was so caught up thinking

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

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