chapter4

Taya

I took my suitcase to my best friend Harper Duke's.

I gently knocked on the door and waited.

Harper had grown up with me in the same orphanage, and we were like sisters.

Except Harper had her wolf.

"If anything happens, come home," Harper had said when Griffon took me away five years ago.

It was because of Harper that I could leave everything from Griffon behind.

As soon as Harper opened the door, a wide smile appeared on her face when she saw me.

"What are you doing here?"

I tightened my grip on the suitcase. "I need a place to crash," I said quietly.

Only then did Harper see the suitcase, and the smile on her face disappeared, a look of worry replacing it.

"What's wrong?"

"I just broke up with him." I forced a smile to hide my pain.

Harper looked closely at me and saw past my pretense in a matter of seconds. Her eyes narrowed, then she frowned.

I knew how I looked. I was thin and pale, my eyes sunken.

Harper hugged me tightly. "Don't worry. I'm here for you."

I couldn't help but tear up at her words. I hugged Harper and patted her gently on the back.

"I'm fine. Don't worry."

Harper knew how much I liked Griffon, how much more I wanted with the powerful, distant Alpha.

We shared everything.

Over the past five years, I had worked hard to earn the amount Griffon had paid me so I could give it back to him. I was so naive and innocent, I believed that if I returned the money, his feelings for me would change. Maybe then we could be something more than just "employer and employee."

I couldn't have been more

years ago just

for Silas Johnson, I

I

Harper with my sorrow. After gently pulling back from the hug, I smiled and said, "Girlie, aren't you going to let

For orphans like

my suitcase and led me into

need a place to crash.

a shower. I'll make you something to eat, and you can get some sleep. Don't

the

good to me,

I lived in a gray

coming to an end. Had I been blessed by the goddess with my wolf, there would be other options, other treatments. But with no wolf to help me heal... If Harper found out that

busy figure in the kitchen and slowly walked over. "I want to

nodded in agreement and said, "You should. You've been working so hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job and

best friend and squeezed her tightly, filled with too many emotions to verbalize them. Then, I turned around

had never

to be apart, I should use the last three months of my life to be

someone who truly loved

***

my pale face and lips

resignation letter, I went to ask

had never really liked me. She didn't try that hard to convince me to stay, and only said a few words before agreeing to approve my

and I couldn't leave immediately, so I had to take

worked at the Midwest Packs Association for five years, and the annual leave I had

in a hurry, Lila couldn't help rolling

as soon as it's over you'd

I replied. Then, I picked up

of the company, I

was a well-known creep in Arcadia, and he loved to play with women-regardless of whether they wanted to play,

saw him walking toward me, a wolfish smile

grabbed my hand and pulled me into his

in such a rush,

head, leaned close to my

ear made goosebumps rise, and I shivered in

could think about any possible repercussions of

"You smell so good..."

inhaled deeply, his hands moving upward to

to smell nothing like myself,

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