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Chapter 0147
Karl
As I watch the train speed away, a new form of emptiness settles in my stomach.
Abby is pis sed at me; I know that. I know that what I did with Adam was messed up, and I guess I
hoped in some sort of naive way that she would never find out. Well, she found out. And she’s furious.
Hell, she might not even want to see me ever again.
“You’ve got to fix this,” my wolf growls, his voice stern in the back of my mind.
“You think I don’t know that?” snap back internally as I begin to make my way back to the car. “But at
this point, I don’t even know if Abby will listen to me anymore. You saw how pis s ed she was this
morning.”
“Make her listen, then. She’ll cool off and will be more willing to hear you out with time.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“And what until then?” I ask. “What the hell am I supposed to do while I wait for her to miraculously
‘cool off’?”
My wolf pauses for a moment. I put the car in drive and pull out of the parking lot, and that’s when he
speaks up again.
“You can start with that awful secretary of yours,” he finally says. “Show Abby where your loyalties lie.
That secretary has been a point of contention since the beginning.”
As much as I hate to admit it, I know that my wolf is right. Gianna has been a problem, even more so
now that I know what her true motives are. If she really has had feelings for me all these years, I would
have to wonder whether these feelings of hers ever impacted certain things.
In fact, I remember Abby mentioning on multiple occasions that she had to make an appointment with
my secretary just to see me; which, now that I think about it, was never true.
At the time, I thought that Abby was just misremembering things, or maybe exaggerating because she
was angry. But now I know better. G ods, I should’ve listened to Abby from the beginning.
Was Gianna trying to sow discord in little ways like that, even back then? Trying to make Abby unhappy
with me?
There’s no way of knowing now. But, this thought has given me a new resolve, and I swerve the car
onto a side road toward Gianna’s house.
We need to have a chat.
…
I can almost feel my wolf nodding in approval as I knock on the door to Gianna’s house. The door
opens slightly beneath my hand, never having fully latched after its last use. I decide to poke my head
in, only to halt in surprise.
Gerald, my ever-reliable butler, is sitting there, casually chatting with her at the kitchen table. They both
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jerk their heads up, Gianna’s eyes going wide while Gerald plasters a friendly smile on his face.
“Ah, Mr. Karl,” he says, standing. “How nice to see you.”
“What are you doing here, Gerald?” I ask. I didn’t know that the two of them were so friendly.
“Just a friendly catch-up,” Gerald replies, his face not giving anything away. He grabs his coat off of the
back of the chair and smiles. “Actually, I was just leaving. I’ll see you at the house later, sir.”
Once he’s gone, Gianna meets my gaze again. “Karl… What brings you here?”
I close the door and look her straight in the eye. “Gianna, we need to talk about last night. Your
comments about Abby were not only inappropriate but also unacceptable.”
She starts to interrupt, but I raise my hand to stop her. “Let me finish. If you ever dare to speak of Abby
like that again, or make another unwarranted advance toward me, you’re fired. No second chances.”
Her eyes widen. “Karl, you can’t be serious. I thought you—”
“You thought wrong,” I cut her off sharply, knowing what her implications will be before she even utters
them. “I don’t love you, Gianna. I’m sorry, but I never have and I never will. Abby is my fated mate, and
I intend to make her my Luna again. If you have a problem with that, then you can find employment
elsewhere.”
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