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."

have been more

night five years ago

it weren't for Silas Johnson, I wouldn't have met

never happened, I could have had a happy

hug, I smiled and said, "Girlie, aren't you going to let me in? It's freezing out

from this. For orphans like us, who had no one to rely on,

and led me into

need a place to crash. This

fetched clean pajamas, and handed them to me. "Go take a shower. I'll make you something

the pajamas and

to me, like a beam of

I lived in a gray

pity that I suffered from terminal heart failure, and my life was soon 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

gazed at the busy figure in the kitchen and slowly walked over. "I want to quit my

should. You've been working so hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job and take

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

never

and I were meant to be apart, I should use

be with someone

***

applied makeup to conceal my pale face and lips and went into

resignation letter, I went to

me to stay, and only said a

leave immediately, so

the annual leave I had was

I was in a hurry,

soon as it's over you'd

I replied. Then, I picked up

I saw Roman Starke, Beta of the Starke

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

I saw him walking toward me, a wolfish smile on his face,

grabbed my hand and pulled me into his

in such

his head, leaned close to my ear, and gently blew against

warm breath on my ear made goosebumps rise, and I

pushed Roman away desperately before I could think about any possible repercussions of resisting an Alpha in public, but he held

"You smell so good..."

hair and inhaled deeply, his hands moving upward to my

smell

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