I Saw My Alpha Mate's Betrayal, So I Changed Fate novel · Chapter 17 of 32

Chapter 17: The Lining

Sophie played the recording back in the parking lot with the windows rolled up.

Every word was there.

Controlled burn. Smoke them out. Ten percent. Four hundred grand.

The jukebox under it, and the wine glass hitting the table.

"I'm going to make eleven copies of this," Sophie said. "I'm going to mail one to my own grandma."

"Make twelve."

She drove me to road's end, and Abel was there, sitting on the hood of his truck in the dark.

He'd been there since we left. I could tell by the dew on his jacket.

He got down when he saw the wine stains on my shirt.

"I'm fine," I said. "It was white."

"She threw a drink at you."

"She threw a drink at me in front of thirty humans who didn't care who she was. It was the best night of my life."

"Top five," Sophie said. "Easy."

She honked the whole way down the first switchback.

Abel and I walked the last half mile without a flashlight.

I held the album against my chest with both arms.

In the cab, he lit the lamp and the stove.

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