Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

chapter21

Taya slowly raised her hand and wiped away the red wine on her face before replying faintly, "Yes."

Roman bent down slightly and studied her carefully. "How?"

"I know I look like Ms. Thorin, so one night while delivering files to Alpha Knight, I added wolfsbane to his drink, hoping to seduce him and make him sleep with me. But he wasn't affected, and he kicked me out right after. Maybe that's why he called me dirty and cheap." Her words dispelled half of Roman's doubts.

He initially thought there was some kind of sexual, or even romantic, connection between Griffon and Taya.

After all, if a man and woman became involved with each other, something like that was bound to happen.

hadn't pegged Taya as a social climber who had her eyes set on Griffon to earn his love, only for her plan to backfire and earn his

her

get money from someone rich and powerful, how could this girl have been so stupid as to target Alpha Knight? The only thing that made sense was that she wasn't actually after those things and harbored some misguided affection for him that would never be

"I've always

glimmering with something like love, which made

that's how it

time being, Roman pulled Taya up

He wasn't looking for a mate, wasn't looking to keep Taya around after he got what he wanted from her. She wasn't suitable mate material in the first place. A woman with no wolf?

her face and neck with cold fingers, his other hand straying over her