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

night five years ago

Johnson,

accident never happened, I could have had a happy

hug, I

to believe that I would soon recover from this. For orphans like us, who had no one to rely on, being abandoned was just another day,

suitcase and led me into

don't need a place to crash. This is your

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

the pajamas

to me, like a beam of light that sliced

people didn't know what to do with me. I lived in

options, other treatments. But with no wolf to help me heal... If Harper found out

in the kitchen and slowly walked over.

agreement and said, "You should. You've been working so hard for so long. God, you must be

her tightly, filled with too many emotions to verbalize

had never favored

use the last three months of my life to

with someone who truly loved

***

conceal my pale face and

writing my resignation letter, I went to ask

me to stay, and only said a few words before agreeing to approve my

I couldn't leave immediately, so I had to take two weeks

for five years, and the annual leave I had was fifteen days. It would make sense for

that I was in a hurry, Lila

over you'd better come back and finish

replied. Then, I picked up

of the company, I saw Roman

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

toward me, a wolfish smile on his face, so I quickly

He grabbed my hand and pulled

you going in such a rush,

leaned close to my ear, and gently

on my ear made goosebumps rise, and

Roman away desperately before I could think about any possible repercussions of resisting an

"You smell so good..."

pushed his nose into my hair and inhaled

wanted me to smell nothing like

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