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

remembered that rainy night five years ago just as

Johnson, I wouldn't have

never happened, I could have

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

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

suitcase and led

to crash. This

me. "Go take a shower. I'll make you something to

took the pajamas and

to me, like a beam of light

with me. I lived in a gray area...raised by wolves yet not a

other treatments. But with no wolf to help me heal... If Harper found out that I was going to die soon, she would be

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

hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job

wrapped my arms around 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

had never

use the last three months

someone who

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face and lips

letter, I went to ask Lila to approve

that hard to convince me to stay, and only said a few words before

would take a month, and I couldn't leave immediately,

annual leave I had was fifteen days. It would make sense for me to take a

I was in a hurry,

as soon as it's over you'd

replied. Then, I picked up my bag

of the company, I

a well-known creep in Arcadia, and he loved to play with

saw him walking toward me, a wolfish smile

quicker. He grabbed my hand and pulled

you going in

close to my ear,

my ear made goosebumps rise, and

before I could think about any possible repercussions of resisting an Alpha in public,

"You smell so good..."

inhaled deeply, his hands moving upward to

had always wanted me to smell nothing

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