#Chapter 8 – The Truth
Karl

I put down the stack of papers and lean back in my chair. I’ve spent the better part of the morning going

over the report from my investigators, and I’m still struggling to wrap my head around everything they

found.

It seems like Abby has had a tough couple of years. Even though her father gave her a generous

severance package, his business has clearly been struggling. He even had to sell their house,

something I know must have been hard for Abby, who spent her childhood there.

Her father was a supplier for the former Alpha, and her family was very wealthy as a result. When we

married, though, she offered to change suppliers to avoid suspicion.

We didn’t want people to see me as a selfish Alpha. I don’t think either of us realized how much of a

strain that would put on her father’s business, even if he was completely understanding of our decision.

After our divorce, Abby started as a backroom apprentice at a restaurant. By doing so, she managed to

save up a sum of money.

Looking at the pictures of her from that time makes something in my heart hurt. She looks haggard,

worked to the bone, and there’s a hollowness in her eyes that makes me feel incredibly guilty. I know I

caused that broken look on her face. I never imagined she felt as heartbroken as I did. She cheated on

me, after all.

From there, she moved to the capital to start her own business. Using some contacts left behind by me,

she was able to build her restaurant into a must-go spot. Now she’s doing great. She owns one of the

top eateries here, which is a feat in and of itself.

Her acquaintances describe her as incredibly smart, great at maintaining relationships, sweet, and

her patrons. Everyone my investigators

to say

seems like she hasn’t had much time to

on multiple dates, and the evidence that she has gone on quite a few since

hasn’t been in

all of herself into her business, and

the capital. I can’t reconcile this

to cook. I just never took

other hand, seems to have disappeared completely from the public

him. Wherever he’s working now, it hasn’t been through

want to find him, it won’t be quite

staff, Abby was always really friendly. She was close to

them. She always loved to cook and would often get them to

saw of Abby and Justin didn’t mean anything.

not just

the other evidence, though. How would her panties have gotten in the

him? I can’t think of any

doesn’t refute any of the physical

her

heart shattered. I really loved her, and knowing she

someone else broke me.

doctor. I employed him back when I first found the panties. He

DNA on the fabric, including Justin’s semen.

can pinpoint the time.

only to get my wolf off my

Alpha,” he says when he picks up the

I rub my temples. “Did you

results here. Just

for him to pull up the

He’s silent for a moment, and I’m not sure

found on the panties appeared at least 24 hours after the marks made by the

“What does that mean?”

panties had

appeared.”

true, then Abby didn’t have an affair

did something with them I’d rather not imagine. In

me so much, I decide to track him down immediately and let my wolf claw

hang up the phone and lean back in my chair. I can’t believe it. If only I had

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