Preston tilted his head slightly and looked behind me. “Isn’t it
here?”
I turned around and looked at the white wall in a daze.
Could it be that Preston was not of the same species as me, so he saw something different with his wolf eyes that my human eyes couldn’t see?
Preston glanced at me as if he were looking at a fool. He stepped forward and knocked on the door, which opened automatically.
Then he pointed at the letters on the wall and scolded me as if he were teaching a lesson to a primary school student.
“Isn’t it clear enough? Don’t you know English?”
I suppressed my anger and replied, “Yes, I do.”
I’d been so me blush, it seemed he couldn’t help mocking me again. “Ms. Palmer, beauty alone is not enough. Knowledge is also vital. Otherwise, it won’t be so easy to mate into the Sterling pack.”
His sarcastic tone was the same as Griffon’s. They were indeed related.
Ignoring Preston, I walked into the break room, picked out my son coffee beans, and put them in the coffee machine to grind.
It appeared Preston wasn’t rushing to leave. He leaned against the door and looked me up and down.
“You’re pretty good-looking. No wonder Jackson likes you. But you’re still a little lacking compared to my sister.”
I’d seen Edith’s photos online. She’d definitely inherited the best genes of the Knight pack, and I knew that I could never compare with her.
But there was no way I could say that. It didn’t matter whether I was good-looking or not. In the end, I was just a handful of ashes. And that would be much sooner than later.
Preston looked at me with a bored look on his face and raised an eyebrow. “Why don’t you talk?”
I glanced at him and said, “Beta Knight, thank you for telling me where the break room door is.”
“That’s it?”
“Is there something else you want?”
I put down the coffee and stared at him without blinking.
Preston’s face stiffened slightly. He looked away and said, “Remember to close the door.”
After he left, I picked up the coffee and walked back to Jackson.
The bidding had already begun. The lights in the venue had been turned off, and only the big screen was on.
It was similar to a small theater, and there were hundreds of steps up to the front from the back door.
Now that the lights were turned off, it was dark inside. I couldn’t see the walkway clearly and could only fumble my way down, holding the cup of coffee in one hand the backs of the chairs with the other.
I managed to make it to Jackson without falling on my face or spilling any of the coffee. Thank the goddess for small blessing.
I bent down and handed him the coffee.
Jackson nodded and took the coffee from me. He smiled and whispered, “Thank you.”
Just as I was about to sit down, Griffon leaned his head back.
I held on to his seat and accidentally touched his thick black hair.
I was startled and quickly withdrew me hand, but the wolf turned around and glanced at me flatly, his wolf’s eyes gleaming in the darkness.
Under the dim light, when I looked into his dark eyes, I felt as if his wolf had set its sights on me for dinner.
I whispered in a panic, “I’m… I’m sorry.”
Griffon didn’t say anything, looked away to focus on the big screen again.
I took a deep breath and fell into my seat.
As my heart pounded, Jackson whispered, “Darling, don’t be afraid.”
I looked at Jackson in disbelief. “What… did you just say?”
After Jackson finished speaking, his eyes widened in shock at his words.
When he heard Jackson, Griffon glanced at Taya and narrowed his eyes, looking between Taya and Jackson.
Why had he called her “darling”?
Jackson was surprised by his actions. It took him a long him calm down before he pretended that nothing had happened sipped coffee.
After taking a sip of his coffee, Jackson asked, “How did you know I like this particular coffee?”
My attention from what he’d called me was diverted by his question, and I replied with a light shrug. “I just randomly picked one.”
That was a lie.
I remembered from before the accident that he always liked to drink dark-roast coffee to perk him up when he needed to focus on something important.
Jackson looked at me thoughtfully, his eyebrows furrowing, and asked, “Have you been studying what I like?”
I quickly shook my head. “No. No, I haven’t.”
“Where’s the vanilla creamer?”
I took out a couple of single serving packages of Coffee Mate and handed them to him.
Jackson raised an eyebrow smugly.
“It seems you know what I like to add to my coffee.”
Only then did I realize he was testing me, and I immediately wanted to take back the creamer.
But Jackson gently grabbed my hand and said, “I need your help.”
He was holding the cup of coffee and couldn’t tear open the lids of the little containers with just one hand. He could only signal to me with his eyes to help him.
I took them from him, tore off the film, and slowly poured them into the coffee.
Jackson looked at Taya, who had her eyes lowered. She glowed with a different kind of beauty under these lights.
He couldn’t help but be mesmerized, and his voice became softer. “Thank you.”
Taya looked up at him and said, “Drink it before it cools.”
Sitting in front of them, Griffon couldn’t see their interaction but could hear it clearly.
His eyes darkened, and his wolf clawed to get out.