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 suffer.” She confesses, “you two were

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

sympathy for her when everything went wrong with

things 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 brought Paisley home were far from convincing, and she was much too nervous when he brought up Jane. The she-wolf was on edge

practically shoved him out the door at the

listening to her complain about

“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

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

so unbelievably expensive, I thought that if we could come

of books you’ve been keeping,

believe I would do such a

words in his head. “Did you say

sniffed, “What does that have to do

question, Eve.” The alpha

“The perfume line is owned

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 insisted she saw Jane… Ethan was so caught

company means to me! I would never… you’re the one who gave me the start-up

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