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

night five years ago just as might as I

Silas Johnson, I wouldn't have met

never happened, I could

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

I would soon recover from this. For orphans like

and led me into the

place to crash. This

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

the pajamas and

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

what to do with me. I lived in a

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 burden her with that

and slowly walked over. "I want to quit my

nodded in 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

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

had never

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

be with someone who

***

next morning, I applied makeup to conceal my pale face and lips and went into the office to quit

writing my resignation letter, I went to

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

for five years, and the annual leave I had was fifteen days.

hurry, Lila couldn't help rolling

you'd better

replied. Then, I picked

the company, I

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

scared when I saw him walking toward me, a wolfish

my

going in

leaned close to

made goosebumps rise, and

think about any possible repercussions of resisting

"You smell so good..."

inhaled deeply, his hands

always wanted me to smell nothing like myself,

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