Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

chapter45

"This is a dowry that I saved for you."

Harper took the card and looked back and forth between it and me, a confused expression on her face.

"But... what do you mean? Why?"

"I know Damian's family said they didn't need one, since they know your history. I just... I want to make sure you start off on the right foot with them, that they don't hold it against you later."

It was an old-fashioned practice, but wolf shifters typically received dowries when someone from outside of their pack married into their pack. Essentially, packs cared for their packmates. Everything from child care to school to food to medical. Anything that was needed, if you were part of a close-knit pack that abided by the "old ways" like Damian's did, it was tradition for the she-wolf's family to give a gift to help with the cost of anything needed for her or future pups.

Was the money actually needed? Nah. It was more a gesture of goodwill between the packs.

Over the years, I'd divided my salary into several parts-one for Griffon, one for Harper, and the other for living expenses.

money on hand could give her peace of mind. Because if Damian and Harper split up, the pack would return the

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a little shocked when

there was anything left after Taya

thought about how she could help Taya

vol

the other way around. So this? This was surprising to

thin. She'd been scrimping and saving to

only

pay Griffon back,

head. "Taya... You didn't have to

and

her head again and pressed the debit card back into

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