No, I don’t!” With her fists clenched, Taya flared at the man before her eyes with extreme resentment.
“You used a false identity to force yourself on me, so I always thought that I was taken advantage of by a stranger.”
“I feel sick whenever I’m reminded of the incident, and it has been hard on me…”
“Yet, you kept it a secret and never brought a word up about it. Have you ever considered my feelings?”
Upon hearing that, Griffon felt as if a silver needle had pierced his eardrum, bit by bit exposing his irrationality…
“I didn’t hide it from you on purpose. Too many things happened between us after you came back.”
“All I had in mind was how I should get you back, and I completely forgot about Greyson…”
After his voice died away, he wrapped his tight arms around the fuming Taya.
“I’m sorry, Taya, no matter how I try to explain, I have to admit I was being too selfish and that I’ve never considered your feelings…”
Taya struggled to push him away, but she could do nothing to
retaliate against his absolute strength as her petite body trembled all over.
Griffon raised his spindly fingers to stroke her on the back, gently comforting her…
“This is a mistake I committed back then. It doesn’t matter if you blame or hate me, but you’re not in good health, so don’t get mad, will you?”
He coaxed her with gentle words, but Taya wasn’t buying it. “Your greatest concern toward me is to let me go.”
Griffon shook his head lightly, his raspy voice carried a hint of sorrow. “I can’t let you go, if I could, why would I suffer all the time…”
Hearing so, Taya raised her head from his arms to look at the man. who hugged her tightly, unwilling to let go. “Since you’re in pain, why would you still come to me?”
If they were to never see each other again, time would heal all their wounds, so why would they stay entangled, tormenting each
other?
Griffon stiffened, his tired eyes were covered with webs of blood vessels as his empty heart ached. “Don’t you care about me at
all?”
The seething Taya blurted out, her fingers curled into fists, “Yes, I don’t!”
With that, she gathered all her strength into pushing Griffon away once more and finally managed to break free from his embrace.
Without even bothering to give him a glance, she turned around and went to the door. Before her hand could reach for the doorknob, there was a sudden ‘bang’ from behind.
The sound of a heavy thud prompted her to turn around, just in time to see Griffon’ body banging against the floor, his face completely pale.
Taya’s heart missed a beat. In panicked steps, she hurried forward, a little flustered in trying to help him up, but he stopped her by raising his hand…
“I’m fine, I just have a headache, don’t worry…”
Seeing the sickly Griffon, the resentment in Taya’s heart dissipated a little. What’s wrong?”
She crouched on the ground, at a loss, her worried eyes on the
man rubbing his temple with one hand. “Probably too tired.”
When Griffon saw the concern in her eyes, he knew that Taya claiming to not care for him at all were all words blurted out in a fit of anger.
With the corners of his lips h o oked to a smirk, he forced himself
back up from the ground, for fear that she would be a little too worried.
After stabilizing his figure, he picked her up and placed her on the couch before raising his head to stroke her dazed face.
“I came to you because I have something to tell you. Give me
some time and the chance to make everything clear to you, is that all right?”
His voice carried a hint of a plea as if he had something urgent to explain to her.
Taya raised her head to see the pale face. Her lips parted to say, First, please visit the doctor…”
Back in Washington, he had mentioned having a headache, but he did give her a fright when he fainted right on the spot after she merely shoved him away. She wondered what happened to him. “Nothing matters more than you do.”
Griffon picked up Taya and sat her on his lap, leaning against the couch to look at her with his head raised.
They were locked in an ambiguous posture. Taya struggled to get off his lap, but he held her waist to refrain her from wiggling around. Don’t move…”
Sensing abnormality in his lower body, Taya went still and could only stare at him, waiting for him to continue.
The man pressed her waist to restrain the restlessness in his body before uttering in a light voice.
“In fact, Greyson is not a false identity, but another identity of mine…”
“When I was seven, Master Davies set up an organization named Organization S for me.”
“This organization dominates the entire globe, its members consisting of all prestigious packs, while I’m their Alpha.”
Taya thought that Greyson was just a made-up name, but little had she expected him to have another identity.
It was no wonder that he could enter and leave the Washington Capitol Building at will and that the staff showed him the utmost respect.
It turned out that besides being the patriarch of the three major packs, he had such a powerful background that seemed forever beyond her reach.
The expression on Taya’s face morphed from that of disbelief to realizing how unapproachable he was before her eyelashes fluttered with a flash of inferiority in her eyes.
Griffon mistakenly thought that she was intimidated by the truth, so he lifted her chin for her to look him in the eyes as he softly
explained, “This organization isn’t an existence that endangers society. It’s related to the business world and respected packs.
Don’t be afraid.”
Hearing so, Taya didn’t say much. Only when she gave a slight nod of her head did Griffon continue. “In my lead, we resolved and dealt with toxic, dangerous people in the business world, and as a result, offended many people out there. If I reveal my identity, not only will I be hunted down, but it’ll also get every member of the organization inflicted.”
When Taya heard the words “hunted down”, her heart sk ip ped a beat.
Shocked and frightened, she gawked at Griffon, confused. “Since your identity can’t be exposed, why tell me about it?”
Griffon loosened his arms around her slender waist and raised his hand to feel the perfect facial features of the face he had always been obsessed with.
“It’s because I don’t want to lose you.”
Keenly noticing how Taya couldn’t understand the sentence, Griffon proceeded to mutter while rubbing her neatly trimmed brows…
“That night, you saw both Emelyn and me in the restaurant because something came up at the headquarters of Organization”
“It all started when Emelyn’s brother offended Johnny, and ended up getting the name list of all members of the organization exposed.”
“There’s a rule that whoever caused trouble will have to solve it, but Mr. Davies was injured in his previous operation, so he has to recuperate.”
“Knowing that she’s no match for Johnny, Emelyn stopped my car, invited me into the restaurant, and begged me to deal with on behalf of her brother.”I remembered being so anxious to meet you, but when I heard that it’s a*sociated with the lives of thousands of members of the organization, as the leader, I had no choice but to compromise.”
“The situation was significantly urgent that night. I didn’t have time to return to you, so I had to call you and give you a heads-up, but you didn’t answer. When I dialed the landline of the villa, the servants told me that you were asleep. I couldn’t bear to disturb your sleep, so I stopped the maids from waking you up. Little had I expected you to be outside the restaurant that night.”