#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

patrons. Everyone my investigators

things to

seems like she hasn’t had much time to

her go on multiple dates, and the evidence that she

been

herself into her business, and she’s seen results. Her food is widely

reconcile

took it seriously. I thought it

other hand, seems to

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

want to find

on interviews with my staff, Abby was always really friendly. She was

any attitude with them. She always loved to cook and

the intimate photos I saw of Abby and Justin

everyone, not

would her panties have

him? I can’t think of any explanation,

got for me doesn’t refute any of the physical evidence I found. It’s not like I

her without

them there that day, my heart shattered. I really loved her,

someone else broke me.

pick up the phone and call the doctor. I employed him

of their DNA on the fabric, including Justin’s semen. It’s hard to refute evidence like that.

technology has developed that can pinpoint the

if only to get

Alpha,” he says when he picks

my temples. “Did you do the tests

I have the results here. Just give

him to pull up the information

I’m not sure if I’m even breathing. “It seems

at least 24 hours after the marks made by the

“What does that mean?”

unlikely that the wearer of the panties

appeared.”

then Abby didn’t have an affair after all.

ahold of her panties and did something with them I’d rather not

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

I say. I hang up the phone and lean back in

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