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.

he was gone, I lay on the ground and breathed a

help of

frightened me more-Roman or

took a few

finally outside of Nightshade, the cold wind

feel cold at all. Like a statue,

pulled up,

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

keeping my face schooled as if I hadn't

on my elbow to stop me. "Ms. Palmer, you know Alpha Knight's

could I offend the powerful

imagine what would happen if I didn't listen to him. It would probably be even more difficult

and got into the car obediently, surprised to see that Griffon was

differences between us right now almost made me giggle. This whole

Alpha wolf versus