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 might as

Johnson, I

I could have had a

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

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

suitcase and

to crash.

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

the

was unconditionally good to me, like a beam of light that

other people didn't know what to do with me. I lived in a gray area...raised by wolves yet not

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

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

working so hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job and take some time to yourself. Don't worry

too many emotions to verbalize them. Then, I turned around

never

be apart, I should use the last three

be with someone who

***

to conceal my pale face

writing my resignation letter, I went

to convince me to stay, and only said

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

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

I was in a hurry, Lila

but as soon as it's over you'd better come back and finish

picked up my bag

I saw Roman Starke,

to play with women-regardless

a wolfish smile on his

grabbed my hand

going in such

leaned close to my ear, and

made goosebumps rise, and I shivered

possible repercussions of resisting an

"You smell so good..."

his nose into my hair and inhaled deeply,

had always wanted me to smell nothing like myself,

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