Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon)

The blood drained from my face, and the young man from the past's face came back to my mind.

I tried my best to control my emotions. I knocked on the open door and asked respectfully, "Elder Thorin, you wanted me?"

Brooks put down the coffee cup and looked up at me. "Taya, you're in charge of the welcoming of the Sterling pack, aren't you?"

I nodded. "Yes, sir."

Brooks glanced at his watch. "Please arrange dinner for this evening. You can book a high-end restaurant for six p.m., and I'd like for you to go to the airport to pick up Alpha Sterling." "Pick up Alpha Sterling?"

We worked with packs from all over the Midwest, and most of them made trips into MPC to handle business with other packs on neutral territory, or to arrange projects between packs. Many times, a pack wouldn't have the labor force for new construction, roads, utilities, and the like, so they contracted other packs to do the work via MPC. We ensured everything was above-board and there were no side deals being made that might have a negative impact on other packs.

But the Sterling pack Alpha had never come in.

now Mr. Thorin wanted me to pick

blurted out, "Elder Thorin, I've actually resigned from my position here. I'm here to hand over my work today. Perhaps it would be better

accidentally met Griffon's deep gaze, and my broken, diseased

happened, quickly looked away, and

actually was, but he looked to be around fifty in terms of human aging. Wolf shifters aged different, more slowly. I'd met wolves who were over a hundred and still looked like they were barely middle-aged in

face, and people either felt terrified, awed, or inspired by him. Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that he

to look into his eyes, but I did. Maybe because

Brooks was my family somehow. He'd never made me feel anything other than cared for, like

me had all been because his daughter

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being looked

and he was