Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

chapter23

I shook with anger.

How dare he threaten Harper in such a way. She had no involvement in any of this. But there was no way I was going to risk any harm coming to her. Not when I wasn't long for this world anyway.

Once I was dead, this would all be over and Harper would be safe.

I gritted my teeth. "Don't worry."

Only then did Roman let go of me.

A hint of regret colored his voice, his fingers tightening on my chin as he stared at me. "I really wanted to fuck you. But now..." The points of his claws came out, and he licked one of his canines, leering at me. "For now, let's just focus on you securing the Westen City project for my pack. I want that more than I want to fuck you right now. After you've gotten the project for me, we can focus on our relationship..."

I swallowed hard, trying not to flinch at his grip on my jaw.

He leaned forward to kiss me-hard-and then abruptly let go of my face, turning to leave.

the ground and breathed a

stood up slowly with the help of the sofa, trembling

know who frightened me

I dug the medicine from my bag and took a few pills to calm my heart before struggling

finally outside of Nightshade, the cold wind whipped

at all. Like a statue,

Car pulled

car, walked up to me, and said respectfully, "Ms. Palmer, Alpha

forward, keeping my face schooled as if

"Ms. Palmer, you know Alpha Knight's temper. He's not someone

could I offend the powerful

didn't listen to him. It would probably be even more difficult to deal

a sigh, I gave up and got into the car obediently, surprised to see that Griffon was in the car. I'd thought Andre would be

now almost made me

wolf versus the nobody