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 been more

that rainy night five years ago just as might

for Silas Johnson, I wouldn't have

the accident never happened, I could have had

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 me in? It's freezing out

that I would soon recover from this. For orphans

my suitcase and led me

to

turned around, fetched clean pajamas, and handed them to me. "Go take a shower. I'll make you something to eat, and you can get some

I took the pajamas and

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

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

coming to an end. Had I been blessed by the goddess with my wolf, there would be other options, other treatments.

figure in the kitchen and slowly walked over. "I want to quit

you must be exhausted. Quit your job and take some time to yourself. Don't worry about

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

had never

apart, I should use

someone

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conceal my pale face and

writing my resignation letter, I went to ask

me to stay, and only said a few words before agreeing to

leave immediately, so I had to take two weeks of annual

had worked at the Midwest Packs Association for five years, and the annual leave I had was fifteen days. It would make sense for me to take

a hurry, Lila couldn't help rolling

as it's over you'd better come back and

replied. Then, I picked up my bag and

out of the company, I saw Roman Starke,

to play with women-regardless

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

grabbed my hand and

are you going in

head, leaned close to my

breath on my ear made goosebumps

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

"You smell so good..."

my hair and inhaled deeply, his hands moving

Griffon had always wanted me to smell nothing like

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