Alpha, Madam is here. She’s waiting for you downstairs…”
Griffon opened the safe in his home office and put the letter from Taya inside. The bottom compartment of the safe also contained a beige scarf and a photo he’d taken of her.
On the day Griffon had terminated their contract, Taya had left the scarf behind.
He had asked Andre to call her and ask her to come and get it, but she asked Andre to throw it away.
She was the most resolute, determined person he knew. Once she made up her mind about something, that was that. He knew that from the moment he ended things, she would never come back to him.
He reached out to touch the scarf. Her scent infused the fabric, and his wolf whined inside him as he closed his eyes and took in her smell.
“Alpha, Madam is coming upstairs. Please hide the photo…”
Frank urged Griffon with a panicked expression.
However, Griffon took his time and caressed the photo.
She was already dead, so there was nothing for him to worry about anymore.
The sound of a wheelchair rolling on the ground come from the hallway as his mother got closer.
Every time the wheelchair made a noise, Frank was so frightened that he didn’t even dare to breathe. He was terrified of Madam Knight.
The woman in the wheelchair was pushed in by a tall and strong man.
They were followed by a group of professional human bodyguards who used to be special troops for the military. Knight pack guards weren’t good enough for Madam. She wanted to be protected by people loyal only to her and not to any pack.
Since they were human and didn’t have the strength of a wolf shifter, they were armed with guns containing silver bullets.
When they came in, Griffon didn’t bother to turn around and look at them and continued looking at the photo.
The face of the woman in the wheelchair darkened when she saw that he did not acknowledge her even though he knew that she was here.
“Give me the thing in his hand.”
Griffon snorted.
He put the photo into the safe on the bottom shelf and took out a gun from the top shelf.
When the man pushing his mother walked behind him, Griffon flipped the safety off. Then, he turned around, raised the gun, and aimed it directly at the man’s forehead.
Sure, he could shift, but they would expect that. And he knew how armed his mother’s men were. A gun of his own would make more of a statement to them.
He was startled by Griffon’s action, but he maintained his composure. “Griffon, is this how you treat your family, your uncle?”
“Uncle?” Griffon sneered. “Would an uncle hold his five-year-old nephew’s head underwater in the pool to drown him to death?”
The man didn’t expect that Griffon would remember what had happened so long ago. He changed his face and defended himself. “I just wanted to teach you how to swim.”
The smile on Griffon’s face became more and more sarcastic. Instead of answering the man’s question, he put his finger on the trigger.
As he was about to fire the gun, Madam Knight ordered someone to throw a woman covered in blood in front of Griffon.
The moment Griffon met the eyes of the woman who was lying on the ground and dying, his eyes narrowed.
He lifted his cold gaze and looked at his mother. Her back was to the light, shrouding her face in darkness. She raised her chin at him.
“Will you let your uncle go, or will you bury him with your men? Choose one.”
Her voice was hoarse and unpleasant.
The woman lying on the ground couldn’t help shivering when she heard this voice, but she looked fearlessly at Griffon.
“Alpha Knight, don’t worry about me. Just do what you’ve always wanted to do…”
The corner of Stella’s mouth had split open due to the beating she’d been given. It was not enough to break her, though.
“Good puppy…”
The woman in the wheelchair played with the belt in her hand while looking at Stella with a mocking smile.
“What spell did he cast on you to make you so loyal? You even dare to pretend to be his woman. Don’t you know that since he was a child, the people he cares about will be destroyed by me…”
When she said the last sentence, her tone was light as if she were playing a game, as if everyone around her were her playthings.
This was the most sinister and terrifying woman Stella had ever seen. She didn’t have tenderness of motherhood at all, only cruelty.
When Griffon was younger and saw that his childhood friend was having a hard time, he’d asked someone to take care of Cici a few times.
Then Madam Griffon heard and sent someone to torture Cici to death.
By the time he found out, Cici was already dying. She was lying in the bathroom and covered in blood, just like Taya had been…
The only difference was that Cici had been raped before she pa*sed away.
When Stella saw what Cici looked like when Cici was dying, she had nightmares for several months…
Stella didn’t understand how a mother could be so cruel to her son.
No matter if it was a person or a thing, Madam Knight would use any means to destroy whatever Griffon cared about.
When Stella pretended to be Alpha Knight’s woman, she was also afraid of being tortured to death like Cici.
But she still plucked up the courage to do so. Someone like her should have disappeared from this world when Eric sent someone to rape her.
It was Griffon who saved her. He asked her not to take revenge rushing and to take it slow. And she would eventually succeed.
Only then did she have the courage to live. With his support, she went abroad to study medicine and returned.
He gave her the power to be reborn, so she was loyal to him, but she didn’t expect…
Originally, she wanted to protect Taya and prevent the ruthless, heartless wolves from discovering Taya’s existence. Overall, it hadn’t mattered. Griffon’s family had still discovered her.
Stella lowered her eyes, suppressed the guilt in her heart, and looked up at Griffon.
“Alpha Knight, just do it!”
At worst, she would lose her life. But there was nothing to be afraid of.
Griffon glanced at Stella and shifted his cold gaze to the woman in the wheelchair again.
“She’s not a woman I care about. You can’t threaten me,” he said to his mother.
When the woman heard this, she stopped playing with her belt, looking up at him and smiling.
When she smiled, the burnt skin on her face split open, making her look sinister and ugly, like an evil spirit from hell.
“She’s just a shield. Of course, you don’t care…” The woman’s smile turned playful. “However, you actually managed to keep a woman secretly right under my nose.”
If it weren’t for the people she sent to keep an eye on him telling her the cemetery incident, she wouldn’t have known about the woman.
She didn’t know how he had managed to avoid her men and hide that woman for five years…
However, none of that was important. What was significant was how to make use of that dead woman-and make him wish he were dead.
When the woman thought of this, the smile on her face became wider, and there was a hint of excitement in her eyes.
“The woman you care about is the dead person called Taya, isn’t she?”
The word “dead” made Griffon wince before he could hide it.
Seeing this, the woman smiled even more sinisterly. “You used to be the best at hiding your emotions in front of me, but now you don’t even pretend anymore. It appears that you really care about that woman, but unfortunately…” After a pause, the woman let out a long sigh. “She died before I could have a good time with her. I didn’t even get see you in pain. What a pity…”
Her words pierced deeply into the depths of Griffon’s heart, making him tighten.