Griffon thought she had slept with Jackson in less than a day because she wanted to take this opportunity to attach herself to the Alpha.
He hadn’t imagined that they’d been lovers before now.
No wonder they’d fallen into bed so easily. They were making up for lost time, it turned out.
Realizing this, Griffon’s body became rigid…
“Taya Palmer, was that the first time you sold yourself?”
He rarely called me by my full name.
I didn’t dare to lie to him, so I quickly nodded and said, “Yes.”
If he had thought I wasn’t a virgin when I’d sold myself to him, I didn’t know what he would do. Alphas didn’t share well, and they were very possessive.
But Griffon didn’t seem to believe me. “I can’t tell whether you’re telling the truth.”
I was almost stunned. Surely, he could tell, could smell it on me if I lied. Human pheromones were forceful to wolves. Plus…
“I… You saw it that first time. The bedsheets…”
There had been blood on the whit e sheets, but she was too embarra*sed to say that.
The first time he’d made love to me was relatively fierce, and my cheeks would still redden every time I recalled it.
When I lowered my head with a blush, he snarled at me, “Who knows. You might have had surgery, since you were so desperate to sell yourself to me.”
My face turned pale. I looked up at Griffon in disbelief.
His eyes flashed with anger, and I wasn’t sure there was anything I could say to make him believe me.
How could I prove to him that I’d been a virgin when he took me that first time? That Jackson… Silas…had never touched me in that way?
At the same time, I was furious.
One of the reasons Griffon had been so fierce in his lovemaking was because it had taken a lot of effort to break through my hymen. How could he think I had undergone surgery to create that scenario, that I WANTED to endure that pain?
Seeing that Taya remained silent, Griffon’s anger gradually shifted into disappointment.
This woman was really something.
He felt ridiculous and stupid thinking of what he had done. He’d searched for her, thought of her, orchestrated reasons to see her…for what?
As if he had suddenly woken up, he let go of her.
She stumbled backward, trying to regain her balance after he shoved her away.
“From now on, I won’t come to you again.”
After saying that, he left.
I was so shocked, I couldn’t move. I just stood there and watched Griffon’s back as he walked to the door.
Something deep inside, some sort of divine intuition from the goddess told me after he closed the door behind him, there was no going back, that he would keep his vow.
I don’t know where my courage came from, but I rushed forward and stopped him.
My words were practically incoherent as I begged him. “I’m- I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to lie to you before. Silas and me-no, Jackson. We, we-”
“It has nothing to do with me,” Griffon interrupted me. “I only came to you because I can’t stand being deceived. Now that I know the reason, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
His words made me feel terrible, as though the ground had been ripped out from under my feet, and I was left flailing my arms.
Nothing I could say at this moment would make a difference. I knew him well enough to know that. He’d made up his mind, and once the Alpha’s mind was made up, that was that.
So I made my face as bland as I could and pretended that nothing had happened. I nodded and said quietly, resolutely, “Okay then, Alpha Knight. Take care.”
As soon as I finished speaking, tears welled up in my eyes. Quickly, I turned around, not letting him see me, see how devastated I was.
The sound of the door opening and closing came from behind me.
Once I heard the door close, I turned around to look at it. My heart seemed to have been cut open, was more empty and painful than ever before.
Even my body was weak, from more than just my illness. I couldn’t support myself anymore. I braced my hands against the wall and moved over to lay down on the sofa again.
I stared up at the white ceiling, tears streaming out from the corners of my eyes.
This time, it appeared Griffon and me were truly over.
After Griffon left the lounge, he gruffly ordered Andre, who had been guarding the door, “Clear the surveillance cameras.”
“Yes, Alpha Knight,” Andre respectfully replied.
“Also, look into Taya and Jackson’s past together. I want all the information by the end of the day tomorrow.”
He had never checked on Taya after he bought her.
And never had he investigated Silas, whom she had called out for in her sleep.
He had always trusted her because she was well-behaved, quiet, beautiful-and human.
Never in a million years had he thought that a human girl would be so deceitful, so willing to lie to a shifter so much more powerful than them.
If he discovered that Taya had been with another man before him, he’d make her life he’ll, would never let her go.
Andre was slightly taken aback.
Was there something going on between Ms. Palmer and Alpha Sterling?
Although he was confused, but he dared not ask any questions. He replied with a “yes” and quickly left.
In less than half a day, Andre had gone through everything he could find regarding Taya and Jackson.
He went to the Alpha’s office with a stack of documents.
“Alpha, I’ve learned about the past between Ms. Palmer and Alpha Sterling.”
After placing the documents on the desk, he relayed the information to Griffon.
“Before Jackson was discovered by the Sterling pack, he was an orphan at Bright Orphanage. He used the name of Silas Johnson.”
“Five years ago, when Jackson’s eldest brother found him, he brought Jackson back from the orphanage. To help Jackson take over the pack business and hide the fact that he hadn’t been raised a Sterling, to prevent people from saying he wasn’t fit as the Sterling Alpha, Jackson’s eldest brother erased his past.”