Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

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."

couldn't have

night five years ago just as

weren't for Silas Johnson,

happened, I could have had a happy

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

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

my suitcase and led me into

place to

handed them to me. "Go take a shower. I'll make you something to eat, and you can get some sleep. Don't think

I took the pajamas and

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

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

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 slowly walked over. "I want to quit

agreement and said, "You should. You've been working so hard for so long. God, you must be exhausted. Quit your job and take some time to yourself. Don't worry about anything; I've

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

had never favored

should use the last three months of my life to be

be with someone who

***

makeup to conceal my pale face and lips and went into the office to quit my

I went to ask Lila to approve

to convince me to

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

I had was fifteen days.

that I was in a hurry, Lila couldn't help rolling

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

I picked up

company, I saw Roman

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

saw him walking toward me, a wolfish smile on

was quicker. He grabbed my hand and pulled

going in such a

leaned close to my ear, and

ear made goosebumps

about any possible repercussions of resisting an Alpha in public, but he held my

"You smell so good..."

and inhaled deeply,

had always wanted me to smell nothing