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

weren't for Silas Johnson,

happened, I could

burden Harper with my sorrow. After gently pulling back from the hug, I smiled and

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

and

don't need a place to crash. This

"Go take a shower. I'll make you something to eat, and you can get some

the pajamas and

been like this. She was unconditionally good to me, like a beam of light

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

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 I was going to die soon, she would be devastated. And the last thing

kitchen and slowly walked over. "I want to quit my

working so hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job and take some time to yourself.

her tightly, filled with too many emotions to

never

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

with someone

***

applied makeup to conceal my pale face

writing my resignation letter, I went to

convince me to stay, and only

leave immediately, so I had to take two weeks

worked at the Midwest Packs Association for five years, and the annual leave I had was fifteen days. It would

a hurry, Lila couldn't help

can approve your leave, but as soon as it's over you'd better come back and finish your

picked up my bag and

out of the company, I saw Roman Starke, Beta of

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

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

my hand

are you going in such

to my ear, and gently blew against

on my ear made goosebumps rise, and I shivered in

think about any possible repercussions of resisting

"You smell so good..."

my hair and inhaled deeply, his hands

smell nothing like myself, Roman's wolf

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