Jackson clamped his mouth shut and open the back door for me like the perfect gentleman he wasn’t.
No, he was the literal big, bad wolf.
I was still feeling a little dizzy. Before getting in the car, my body swayed, and Jackson quickly held me by the waist.
“Ms. Palmer, are you all right?”
I shook my head and tried to break free from his grip, but he held my waist with one hand and helped me into the car.
Watching the Rolls Royce disappear into the distance, the man in another car put out his cigarette.
Under dim light, the cold moonlight shone through the window on the man’s stoic, hard facial features.
His indifferent eyes were like emissaries from hell. There was no emotion in them, and they looked gloomy and dim…with a hint of his wolf’s fire.
Sitting in the back seat, Preston couldn’t see his expression clearly. But something told him that Griffon had stopped here to wait for Taya.
A worried expression unconsciously appeared on Preston’s face. “Griffon, why aren’t you leaving yet?”
After a few seconds of silence, the man’s indifferent voice spoke. “Wait for Andre.”
Andre said he had left something in the Wilton’s house and returned to get it.
However, Preston saw it for the excuse it was. Griffon would never wait for an a*sistant to do anything. Waiting for others was an inconvenience for the Alpha.
The more Preston thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. “Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for that woman?”
He thought Griffon would deny it, but his response was nothing like he expected. “What if I’m really in love with her?”
Preston was shocked. He quickly sat up straight. “Griffon, you can’t. Her life would be in danger if you fall in love with her. An Alpha can never mate a human. And although she isn’t a good person, I don’t want to see blood again.”
When Griffon heard this, the emotion in his eyes disappeared and the stoic Alpha look was back in place.
He looked back at Preston with a smile.
“Preston, you’re still as easy to fool as when you were young.”
Preston could tell from his face that he was joking. Only then did his tense nerves relax.
However, with a severe look, Preston reminded Griffon, “Don’t say such things in front of others in the future.”
If someone with ulterior motives heard Griffon say something like that, the Knight pack would never be at peace, and the rumors would be unstoppable.
Griffon looked away, his eyes filled with despair.
Through the rearview mirror, Preston looked at the distantlooking Griffon.
After hesitating momentarily, Preston plucked up the courage to ask, “Griffon, when are you going to get mated to Tara?”
Preston always felt that everything would be settled after Griffon and Tara had their mating ceremony and Tara became the Knight pack’s Luna. Then, he would no longer have to worry about anything.
Griffon seemed to smile, but it didn’t reach his eyes. “You also want me to mate her?”
Preston shook his head slightly and said, “No, but…”
But he had no choice.
After all, Alpha’s rarely had a choice regarding who they needed to take as their Luna. And Griffon mating an elder’s daughter was the best choice for their pack to remain strong and powerful.
Just as Preston considered what to say, Griffon suddenly said,
“I’ll mate her.”
His voice was very nonchalant, as if there were no feelings in him. He was like a machine, so cold that he was lifeless.
Preston sighed deeply in his heart. Griffon seemed to have never been happy…
Jackson drove Taya home.
Before exiting the car, Jackson handed her an ointment and said, “It’ll help you reduce the swelling. It’s something we wolves use when we need a little extra help when we’re injured.”
After thanking him, Taya declined politely. “I’ll just use ice cubes when I get inside.”
After saying that, Taya left. Jackson looked at her petite figure as she walked away, a lonely expression on his face again.
He could feel that Taya was on her guard against him, and the hint of hostility in her eyes puzzled him.
While Jackson was deep in thought, Camille reminded him, “Alpha Sterling, Ms. Palmer is playing hard to get. Please don’t be fooled.”
Jackson hadn’t been in a relationship since he lost his memory. He didn’t know anything about women’s behaviorespecially human woman.
“No, there’s no game. She doesn’t like me and doesn’t want to be anywhere near me.”
After a pause, Camille continued. “Didn’t you notice what she did just now? If Taya didn’t want your sympathy, she wouldn’t have told you what happened with Lena. She deliberately let you see it, and even let you confront Lena. She must have known that Henry wanted to get you and Lena together, so Taya deliberately sabotaged his efforts. Trust me, I know how women operate.”
Under normal circumstances, Jackson would have believed Camille. But Taya didn’t let him see it on purpose. If anything, she had tried to minimize what had happened, but Lena had hit her hard enough to leave a mark on her face that she couldn’t hide.
If it weren’t for that, he probably wouldn’t have known what had gone down in the bathroom.
Camille opened her mouth to say something else, but Jackson stopped her. “Just focus on driving. All you know how to do is gossip.”
Camille was speechless.
She wasn’t a gossip. At all. And it hurt her that Jackson would say that about her.
Looks like her evening was going to be filled with Ben & Jerry’s to make her feel better.
When I got home, I was so tired that I collapsed on the sofa and stared blankly at the ceiling.
My physical strength was completely zapped and spread from my body to my heart. I was exhausted, and fatigue overtook me as soon as I laid down.
1 closed my eyes and tried to take deep, calming breaths.
I didn’t remove my makeup or change my clothes. I was too tired too tired to do anything other than let sleep take over, sliding in and out of waking and dreamland.
I was so dizzy and delirious with weariness that I would swear I saw Griffon walk in.
He picked me up, held me in his arms, and kissed me pa*sionately.
Under his fierce attack, my body could not help but respond to him…