I was still shocked that Jackson would come forward to stand up for me.
Pursuing any line of questioning wasn’t a good idea, but Lena’s accusations made me angry.
Just as I was about to ask her what I had said to her, a commanding voice suddenly came from behind me.
“Why, Miss Wilton, have you been learning to confuse right and wrong in the past few years?”
I didn’t need to look to know who was speaking. I was grateful he was also standing up for me, but I didn’t dare to look back.
Griffon glared at Jackson, who was holding onto Taya’s hand, then he slowly walked down the stairs and stood in front of Lena.
“I just happened to pa*s by when Miss Wilton humiliated her.”
Griffon refused to show her any respect and exposed her lie, causing Lena to pale.
Lena still wanted to argue, but there was a murderous look in Griffon’s eyes. One that alerted everyone not to mess with the Alpha.
She had never seen such a terrifying look before. Even though his eyes were beautiful, the look was enough to petrify her.
Lena was so scared that she immediately shut her mouth. She stood rooted to the spot, not daring to move.
Only then did Henry realize that something had happened to his sister. He quickly pushed through the crowd and rushed over.
Before Henry could ask what had happened to Lena, Griffon gave him an indifferent look.
“I expected the Wilton shifters to be a bit cla*sier than this.”
After saying that, Griffon left with his pack bodyguards.
Watching the show from the side, Preston looked thoughtfully at Griffon’s back.
Griffon never spoke up for anyoneunless they were important.
And he had to admit, watching Lena be put in her place was incredible.
Preston glanced at Taya, who was standing intimately with Jackson, and his expression darkened slightly.
What was it about Taya that was so special to his cousin?
He hadn’t expected a nonwolf to be so capable in her ability to snag a shifter. Not only could she get Jackson to protect her, but she could also get Griffon to speak up on her behalf.
Even though Griffon and Jackson were strong Alpha wolves, defending a human over a shifter was risky. Didn’t Taya realize that?
Of course she did.
But that was what she wanted, no matter how hazardous that might be for the men she involved in her scheming.
Preston wanted to go over and teach her a lesson, but after thinking for a minute, he decided against it.
Not his monkey, not his circus.
Preston turned around, nodded to his a*sistant, and left with Griffon.
Jackson looked at the backs of the Knights as they walked away. He was surprised that Griffon would come forward to help them just now.
On second thought, perhaps Alpha Knight also looked down on shewolves like Lena who played tricks when they thought others wouldn’t know.
Since Griffon happened to see them, he would naturally stand up to uphold justice as any Alpha would, no matter if it was a human or not. Taya wasn’t just any human. She worked for the MPC and for many packs, and she’d been raised as any other wolf was.
Even though he looked down on Taya, he had just canceled the engagement with the Knight pack.
Jackson refused to overthink it.
He looked at Lena again.
“I’ll only repeat myself once. Apologize!”
Jackson infused the word “apologize” with the commanding tone of his Alpha wolf.
Henry hurriedly asked Lena what had happened to make his good friend angry.
Lena did not dare to argue anymore. She could only cry and say that she was jealous of Taya, so she slapped her in anger.
Henry’s thoughts of helping his sister were immediately dispelled. Typically, Lena was exasperating, but now, he was incensed. “Apologize!”
After that, he added, “After apologizing to Alpha Sterling and his companion, you will come with me to receive your punishment from Father.”
Old Alpha Wilton was in his element, greeting the elders in the banquet hall. He didn’t know what had happened outside. He was too absorbed in his own interests.
He didn’t know that the Knight pack cousins had left. He only thought they had gone out to meet the other younger shifters.
If he learned that Griffon had been angered by his daughter and left, he would slap Lena twice to teach her a lesson.
Given that her brother had more power than her, Lena could only apologize to Taya, no matter how reluctant she was.
Jackson wasn’t impressed with Lena’s forced apology, and his wolf wanted more.
He still wanted to say something, but Taya stopped him. “Alpha Sterling, let’s go.”
Sure, Lena had slapped me. But the sting of my slap wouldn’t last for nearly as long as the damage to Lena’s reputation. Of course, Lena was unhappy, and her apology wasn’t sincere.
I didn’t feel the need to argue with her anymore. All I wanted was for her to be taught a lesson and remember it.
She might have slapped me today, but if she behaved like this in the future and slapped Jackson’s promised mate out of jealousy, the Wilton pack wouldn’t be able to recover.
Lena didn’t know what Taya was thinking. To her, Taya was only the source of her current embarra*sment and discontent.
As soon as the banquet ended, Lena cried and complained to her father and brother. “You must seek justice for me!”
Hearing her crying, Alpha Wilton slapped her in the face.
“How dare you cry in front of me after offending Griffon!”
Lena instantly stopped crying and looked at her father in disbelief.
“If I don’t teach you a lesson, you won’t learn it. Youand this packcan’t afford to offend Griffon or Jackson. One is in charge of Arcadia, and the other is in Wolverly Capital. You’ve offended both of them in one go!”
Alpha Ray was so angry that his face started to change, his whole body trembling as his rage caused him to start shifting into his wolf. If it weren’t for Henry stepping between him and Lena, he would have taught the shewolf another lesson.
Lena did not expect that her father, who had always doted on her, would ever slap her. Let alone for someone outside of their pack. She covered her face and ran out.
Henry chased after her anxiously, seeing that his younger sister had left in a fit of anger.
Everyone knew that the blind date banquet of the Wilton pack was a mess.
Jackson led me out of the Wilton manor.
We stood at the door, waiting for Camille to arrive with the car. Jackson still held my hand.
I looked down at his hand, pretending nothing had happened,
and broke free from his grip.
Disappointment flashed through Jackson’s eyes the moment I pulled my hand out of his.
Thinking of how he had just helped me, I thanked him. “Alpha Sterling, thank you for speaking up for me earlier.”
Disappointment crossed Jackson’s face when I spoke.
He looked at my swollen cheek and said guiltily, “I’m sorry. You wouldn’t have been hurt if it weren’t for me.”
I gave a small shrug. “It doesn’t matter.”
It was just a slap. It was nothing compared to the two kicks Jackson had given me before.
Just as he was about to say something else to me, Camille drove up.