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."

have

remembered that rainy night five years ago just as

Silas Johnson, I wouldn't have met

happened, I could

my sorrow. After gently pulling back from the hug, I

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

suitcase and led

need a place to crash. This is your

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

took the pajamas and

She was unconditionally good to

didn't know what to do with me. I lived in a gray area...raised

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 kitchen 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

friend and squeezed her tightly, filled with too many emotions to verbalize them. Then, I turned around and went to the bathroom with tears in

never

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

someone who

***

applied makeup to conceal my pale face and lips and went into

finished writing my resignation letter, I went to

liked me. She didn't try that hard to convince me to stay,

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

five years, and the annual leave I

in a hurry, Lila

your leave, but as soon as it's over you'd better come

replied. Then, I picked up my

I hurried out of the company, I saw

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

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

was quicker. He grabbed my

you going in such

leaned close to my ear, and gently blew against

my ear made goosebumps

possible repercussions of resisting an

"You smell so good..."

nose into my hair and inhaled deeply, his

always wanted me to smell nothing

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