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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isn't what he had expected from the little spitfire

to her sense after

stiffened. "Beta Starke, I've already told you I don't want to sleep with you. Our deal was that I would get

now. This woman was going to give him

you want me to

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 a

that case, I'll have

the wine she held out to him, noticing that her fingers were trembling.

rising and falling just slightly too fast. But what really betrayed her was the stink of fear. She disguised her

drink it first." Roman handed the wineglass back