Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

"Taya, what's this..."

I looked to the side, into the mirror in the foyer.

Shit. I hadn't noticed that my neck was full of hickeys.

I quickly covered them with muy hand and lowered my head awkwardly.

"I..."

"Did Beta Starke force himself on you?"

***

She remembered how Beta Starke had looked at Taya as if he were looking at prey.

Yesterday, Harper had wanted to talk to Taya about what happened, about her worries regarding the Beta, but she was busy with the mating ceremony and caring for Damian's pack. She got sidetracked every time she thought about it.

Now that she saw Taya like this, especially after not being able to get ahold of her, she was even more suspicious that Beta Starke had done something to her best friend

to the goddess I'll kill him." Harper's wolf started to rise to the surface, her protective instincts for her sister making her start to see red,

because they were a man but also a shifter, she became furious and rolled up her sleeves, her claws coming out and hair

her. "Harper, it's not Beta

paused. "Who was

speak, then shut it,

it clicked

you reconciled

several times when, after seeing Griffon, Taya's skin

I was with another man last

have expected Taya to be with someone other

something was off with Taya's demeanor. She examined her best friend, trying to figure out what she was missing, but when Taya's expression didn't change and Harper's wolf couldn't scent out a change in Taya's pheromones,

is he? Is he a good man? Reliable? Is it

something from me?" Harper

couldn't get anything out of her, so unless she was prepared to start a fight by calling her best friend a liar, Harper didn't really have any other choice but to let it go and let Taya decide when she would share whatever was going

Harper's hand. "Don't worry. If I decide to

This didn't seem right...