Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

"Well, it seems you're not useless after all."

Oh, thank the goddess.

Roman wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed me hard on the cheek. "Tell me, baby, what reward do you want?"

I swallowed down the bile rising in my throat.

With a calmness I didn't feel, I said, "Beta Starke, I don't need any reward other than you telling your men to leave Harper and Damian alone." Roman nodded, then immediately made a phone call to ask his men to withdraw.

Only then did I let out a full sigh of relief. I turned, picked up the drugged glass of wine, and handed it to Roman.

"Roman, would you like to have a drink with me?"

"Drink with you?"

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an eyebrow. Now this...this isn't what he had

come to her

to her, leaning down to scent her hair above her ear. "Have you changed your mind? Are you willing to let me touch you?" She bristled, and her body stiffened. "Beta Starke, I've already told you I don't want to sleep with you. Our deal was that I would get you the project and you wouldn't have sex with me. Are you going back on

to Beta Starke now. This woman was going to give him

you want me to drink

did you not touch me, but you also trusted me, a mere human. At the very least, I should offer you a drink as a gesture of my gratitude." She should be grateful, Roman thought, her words having worked to fluff his ego

case, I'll have a drink with

held out to him, noticing that her fingers were trembling. Narrowing his eyes, he took the glass but didn't drink it. Instead, he examined

into his wolf's senses, he perused her with his heightened vision. He took in the way her chest was rising and falling just slightly too fast. But what really betrayed her was

can drink it first." Roman handed the wineglass back to