Griffon looked down at the chat log, and then slowly raised his eyes to look at Taya. “Are you worried about me?”
His laid-back, casual voice was full of charm, as if he was deliberately bewitching her into telling him what he wanted to hear.
Taya didn’t fall for it. She simply stared at him closely, looking up and down…
His deep and clear eyes were no longer bloodshot, but they still had a faint trace of redness.
Her lipstick stained his thin lips, masking its natural shade, but there was still an abnormal paleness to his face.
When Taya saw him like that, complex emotions ebbed in her gaze. She parted her lips slightly, and when she was about to speak, Griffon suddenly leaned forward.
Taya’s heart trembled when his cedar fragrance grew closer. In an awkward manner, she pressed herself against the car window.
As soon as she did that, she saw his neatly manicured fingertips gently brushing past her cheeks before he stuck his palm to the car window.
Having cornered her, Griffon lowered his gaze. “Taya, answer me…”
When his handsome face approached her, she was met by a pair of expectant eyes.
The glowing starlight in his eyes gradually shone into hers. He didn’t even have to try to charm her for her to subconsciously nod.
His thin and slightly pursed lips curved upward subtly. “I’m fine.
Don’t worry…”
His clear and powerful voice flowed into her ear. Like magic, it easily brought peace to her flustered mind.
Even since he revealed his feelings to her, what he had told her the most was not to worry about him.
Taya reached out, wanting to touch his cheek like she had in Washington. However, when she got close to him, she suddenly
lost her courage.
She vaguely retracted her fingers and wanted to put them down, but he grabbed her wrist.
He grabbed her hand and put it on his cheek tenderly. “Don’t be She shouldn’t be afraid to touch him, love him, and start over with him. He would let her experience the most unique love in the world.
After a few seconds of silence, she spread her fingers gently on his face, feeling the abnormally cold temperature of his body. Taya
frowned.
“Are you really okay?”
Griffon covered her small hand with his large palm and shook his head.
“I’m fine,” he replied. “Have you been to the doctor?” she asked.
Griffon didn’t respond. He continued staring at her with his elegant and attractive eyes, as if he wanted to find a trace of affection from the change in her expression.
Seeing that he didn’t speak, Taya belatedly realized that she seemed to be too concerned. Thus, she lowered her head and didn’t dare to ask any more questions.
Griffon sn atched the phone from her, scrolled through her contacts to look for Stella’s number before dialing it and putting the call on loudspeaker.
Seeing that he was calling Stella all of a sudden, Taya was a little puzzled. “Why are you calling Stella?”
Griffon lowered his head, using the bridge of his nose to lightly poke her cheek. “You refuse to believe that I’m fine, don’t you?”
He was saying that Stella knew about his illness, and getting Stella to tell Taya directly would rea*sure her.
Despite that, if he were to take her mobile phone and use it to call Stella to ask about his condition, there was no way Stella would dare to say otherwise.
“I believe you. Give my phone back!” she insisted.
Taya reached out to grab it, but he was one step ahead of her. He leaned back with his arms. No matter how she tried, she couldn’t
reach it.
Taya was so angry that her face was flushed. At that moment, however, Stella answered the phone. “Hi, Taya. What’s the matter?”
Hearing Stella’s voice, Taya could only withdraw her gaze from Griffon to look at the phone screen. “Sorry, I-I accidentally dialed the wrong number.”
Griffon turned his head to the side, subtly raising his bushy eyebrows. “Hm?” Stella, who was leading a group of doctors on their rounds around
the hospital, heard Griffon’ voice. She was so shocked that she stopped in her tracks.
After standing there in a daze for a few seconds, she quickly withdrew her hand from the pocket of her white coat and waved to the group of doctors behind her.
After sending them off to make their rounds on their own, she hurried to a corner, covering her phone and murmuring, “Are you with Alpha Knight?”
Stella had deliberately lowered her voice, fearing that Griffon would hear her. It made Taya feel helpless. “Yes. It was an accident, so I’m hanging up.”
Once she finished speaking, she quickly raised her slender and fair index finger to hang up, but Griffon grabbed her petite hand.
After forcibly interlocking their fingers, he muttered, “She’s worried about my health. Tell her.”
The cold voice from the other end of the phone startled Stella, but she soon came to her senses after understanding the hidden
meaning behind his words.
Stella put one hand in her pocket and held the phone in the other, with a playful smile on her mouth. “Oh…
The meaning behind his words made Taya extremely embarra*sed.
Before she could protest, Stella said something that made her even more embarra*sed.
“Don’t worry. Alpha Knight’ body is very strong. It won’t affect your desire to have pups at all.” Taya was at a loss for words.
Did she think that Taya was concerned about having pups? She…
Taya raised her eyes and looked at Griffon who was cornering her. Seeing how his face had gone stiff, she swallowed the scolding words that were already at the tip of her tongue.
After Griffon hung up and returned the phone to her, he raised his hand to stroke her hair, then let go of her and sat up straight.
He didn’t say anything and silently started the car to send Taya back to Harper’s villa.
The ambiguous atmosphere in the car faded away. The loneliness small space. only Ing to leave a trace of sadness in the Taya quietly looked at him through the corner of her eye. She had only taken one glance before the man suddenly let go of one of his hands on the steering wheel and grabbed her hand.
His fingers pa*sed through her palm and intertwined with hers once again.
His firm grip made Taya side-eye him, who was driving with one hand. “You-”
“You will have pups. You definitely will.”
When he said that, he didn’t dare to approach her and tease her the way he did earlier. It seemed that he had lost the courage to even face her when it came to this matter.
Taya lowered her gaze to look at the back of his hand, which had veins bulging because of how he was exerting so much of his strength. She sighed lightly and agreed, “Yes. I will.”
Upon hearing that, the tense lines on his handsome face softened a little. “They’ll be mine.” uys OR In his eyes.
Taya belonged to him, and her pups would have to be his.
She didn’t reply to him and just turned her head to look at the scenery pa*sing by outside the car window.
Since he hadn’t gotten a reply from her, Griffon squeezed her hand even harder.
After a long time, he heard her mutter, “You’re the only person I’ve ever slept with.”
The knot in his heart was suddenly untied, which made his eyes water.
She had never said any of that to him. Usually, she would just respond to him with ironic lies.
Whenever she said that she had slept with other people, those words would pierce into his heart, causing him to bleed with pain.
Hearing her say that he was the only one she had ever slept with… Griffon felt that it was the most beautiful love story he had ever heard.
He grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it gently.
It would only be him for the rest of her life. That was what he silently swore to himself.
The car stopped at the entrance of the villa. He was holding her hand the whole time. After slowly letting go, he opened the door and got out of the car.
He opened the pa*senger door, unbuckled Taya’s seat belt before taking her hand again and helping her out of the car.
When Taya stood firm in front of the car door, she told him, “Thank you for sending me home. I’ll get going now.”
Once she said that, she walked past him, but Griffon grabbed her wrist again. “I have a gift for you.”
Taya turned to look at him. “Don’t give me any gifts. I don’t need anything.”
The corner of Griffon’ mouth twitched. He took her hand forcibly and led her to the other side of the villa.
There was a brand new luxury car parked there. It was a Koenigsegg, the same model as Griffon’.
The model, body, and color were exactly the same, not to mention the price. It was one of the top ten luxury cars in the world.
Griffon led her by the hand and walked to the car door. He raised his chin slightly, motioning for her to open it. laya raised her head and looked at the tall man beside her. “Is this car the gift you were talking about?”
Griffon nodded gently. He opened the car door, and told her, “Get in and see if you like it. If you don’t, I’ll get another one for you.”
Taya didn’t want to go in for a test drive so she said, “I’m not going to try it. You can return it.”
She couldn’t drive such an expensive car, nor did she know how to drive a sports car. For her, a car was just a means of transportation.
Griffon thought that she didn’t like the fact that she would have matching cars with him, so he quickly took out his phone and made a call.
“Andre, drive that Aston Martin to Ms. Duke’s villa,” he ordered.
After he finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and looked at the stunned Taya.
“You should come with me to my garage to pick out the ones you like,” he stated.
He hung up the phone and dragged her back to his car, but Taya quickly broke free from his grip.
“I’m not going, and I don’t want a car from you,” she protested.
riffon lowered his head and stared at her for a few seconds before finally understanding what she was thinking.
“This was given to me by another company. It didn’t cost any money. Don’t feel pressured,” he rea*sured.
Taya parted her lips and wanted to refuse, but Griffon bent down and sealed her lips with a kiss, cutting off her unspoken words.
“Don’t turn me down again.”
He put his arms around her waist, tugged her close to his body, then lowered his head again to deepen the kiss.