Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

chapter33

After I ran home in the rain, I removed my dress and the diamond necklace and threw them into the box they'd come in.

Tomorrow, I would send them back to Roman. His "gifts" disgusted me, and I would never accept them.

After closing the box, I went to the bathroom and turned on the faucet in the bathtub. I desperately needed a hot soak to warm me up. The chill from the rain had set deep in my bones, and my illness didn't make it better. Once the tub was full, I sank into the water with a sigh.

I held the bath ball and scrubbed my face and body, rubbing my skin red before looking at myself in the mirror, sans of my armor of makeup. My face was left with a sickly pallor, devoid of any vitality or energy, and my eyes were dimmed to the point of lifelessness. I couldn't see the light, couldn't feel the warmth.

Tonight I'd been treated as if I were no better than the dirt under someone's shoe. But I was a person, dammit. And I deserved to be treated with dignity.

"Dignity."

the mirror. From the moment I'd sold

dried my hair and lay down on the

buried my head in sleep until the afternoon of the

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morning to afternoon. When she got up and prepared dinner, Taya

out to her, but there was no

walked in. When she saw Taya's flushed face,

She was burning up!