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

years ago just as might as I

Johnson, I

never happened, I could have had a happy

with 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

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

took my suitcase and

don't need a place to crash. This is

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

the

was unconditionally good to me, like a beam of

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

be other options, other treatments. But with no wolf

the kitchen and slowly walked over. "I want to

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

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

had never

should use the last three

someone who

***

face and

my resignation letter, I went to

try that hard to convince me to stay, and

immediately, so I had to take two weeks of annual

Midwest Packs Association for five years, and the annual leave I had

a hurry, Lila couldn't help

as soon as it's over you'd

Then, I picked up my bag

I saw

he loved to play with women-regardless of whether

toward me, a wolfish smile on his face, so

my hand and pulled me

are you going in such

close to my ear, and gently

made goosebumps rise, and I shivered in

away desperately before I could think about any possible repercussions of

"You smell so good..."

hair and inhaled deeply, his

wanted me to smell nothing

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