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."

I couldn't have been

remembered that rainy night five years ago just as might

weren't for Silas Johnson, I wouldn't

accident never happened, I could have had a

gently pulling back from the hug, I smiled and said, "Girlie, aren't you going to let me

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

suitcase and led

place to crash. This is your

shower. I'll make you something to eat,

the pajamas and

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

with me. I lived in a gray

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 burden her with

kitchen and slowly walked over.

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 got

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

never favored

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

someone who

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makeup to conceal my pale face and

my resignation letter, I

really liked me. She didn't try that hard to convince me to stay, and only said a few words before agreeing to

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

annual leave I had was fifteen days. It would make sense for me to take

I was in a hurry, Lila couldn't

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

I replied. Then, I picked

I hurried out of the company, I saw

in Arcadia, and he loved to play with

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

quicker. He grabbed my hand

in such a

lowered his head, leaned close to

ear made goosebumps rise, and

away desperately before I could think about any possible repercussions of resisting an Alpha in public, but he held

"You smell so good..."

into my hair and inhaled deeply, his

had always wanted me to smell nothing like myself, Roman's wolf was the