Chapter 53
+25 BONUS:
Chapter 33
For a moment, I considered going to Logan. The recent tension between us stopped me. I didn’t feel like I could go to him.
By the end of the workday, the tumors were already spreading Webhad gotten around that I was under suspicion for embezzling from the pack’s accounts. People who were once friendly with me now looked at me sideways, whispering behind my back.
When I finally got home that night, the weight of it all settled in a rock in my chest. I felt like I was drowning in this web of Hes, and all I wanted was to run away from it.
As soon as Logan stepped through the door, I knew something wrong. He looked tense, his shoulders stiff, his eyes narrowed as he met my gaze.
“What’s going on?” I asked, my voice low.
Logan didn’t answer right away. He stepped inside, closed the doos behind him, and leaned against it
“I need to talk to you,” he said, his voice tight.
1 felt a knot tighten in my stomach. “What happened?”
“I got a call from the pack’s finance department,” Logan said, running a hand through his hair. “There’s an investigation into the missing funds. And they’ve implicated you.
My world tilted. My stomach dropped. I couldn’t breathe for a second.
“What?” I whispered. I had hoped that the ladies in the office had been all talk. To think they’d actually gone through with it.
“Iris… and Carla…” Logan shook his head, his jaw clenched in anger. “They’ve claimed you’ve been stealing money from the pack”
-What do you think?”
“I don’t know.”
“No.” The word came out as a strangled gasp, like a sharp breath caught in my throat. “You can’t think I actually did something like this. Logan, I would never steal, and definitely not from the pack. ”
He stepped toward me, reaching for my hand. “It’s bad, Emily. There’s evidence that shows money is missing. And it’s all pointing to you ”
I shook my head, still struggling to process everything. “But I’ve never touched the pack’s money. I didn’t do this.”
Logan’s voice was full of frustration and guilt. “We have to prove it Emily. We need to clear your name.
“I’ll prove it,” I said, my voice shaking with a mix of fear and determination. “I won’t let them do this to me.”
Logan grabbed my shoulders gently, his grip firm but not harsh. “Im sorry.”
The look in his eyes was as good as a dagger piercing me through the heart. Things had not been going well between us, but I didn’t think it would be this bad. The sting of betrayal left a wound deeper than ever imagined
As my blood ran cold, I looked him directly in the eye. “Do you believe them?”
“I didn’t want to,” he admitted, his voice raw. “They have evidence. I have to be impartial here, no matter what I think.”
I could see the regret in his eyes, and part of me wanted to throw it all back in his face. After everything we had gone through, he had to have some amount of trust in me. He had to know that I wasn’t the sort of person that would do something like this.
Another part of me understood. It was more than him and me. It was about the pack, the reputation, and everything that went along with being an Alpha.
kapter 63
+25 BONUS
This wasn’t about us
“I’m sorry,” Logan said again, his voice breaking
I took a deep breath, the weight of everything pressing on me. “Tigure this out. But I need you to trist me, Logan. I need you
to believe in me.”
–
“I do.”
But I knew that, in this moment, the lines between us had shifted, Trust–real on it, unsure of whether it would break or hold
d trust
was a fragile thing. And we were standing
