Goodbye My Alpha (Taya and Griffon) novel Chapter 3

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Griffon walked past me to the exit doors. A car was waiting outside, and I watched as he gently helped Tara into the back seat. Once the car door was closed, he turned around and walked back to me.

My heart gave a flutter as I watched my handsome Alpha stride back to me.

Could it be that was just all for show? My pulse sped up with hope.

Until he pulled an envelope from the inner pocket of his suit jacket and said, “I’m canceling our contract. You’re fired.”

The blood drained from my face as I stared at his outstretched hand, and I was lightheaded as my heart stopped.

Fired.

Not “we’re breaking up.”

Fired.

It took everything in me to choke back my sobs and keep the tears welling in my eyes from falling.

“So this is what five years is worth? ‘Firing’ me in a hospital lobby?” I couldn’t hold back the venom in my voice when I said the word “firing.”

Griffon clenched his jaw, causing the muscle to ripple. “The decision is not yours to make.”

I took the card and plastered on a fake smile, attempting to feign indifference. “Don’t be so serious. I was just joking.” Then I added, “I’m glad this is over. Now I’ll get a chance to rest. How perfect!”

His wolf flashed in his eyes with that gorgeous amber. He pinned me with his gaze as he slid his hands into his pants pockets in a calculated move that I knew was meant to look casual. The Alpha was never casual. Even in bed.

It took everything in me to make sure there was no sadness in my eyes, to make sure the only emotions he might see were excitement or relief.

The absolute last things I felt.

Griffon narrowed his eyes and frowned. “Why are you at the hospital?”

“It’s just a routine checkup. You know that I’ve always had a heart condition.” I gave a nonchalant shrug.

Griffon’s eyes filled with something I couldn’t read. After staring at me for a while, he pulled his hand out of his pocket to look at his watch. He didn’t say anything, just turned to leave.

“Griffon Knight.”

I called his name for the first time.

He turned around and said gruffly, “What’s wrong?”

I trembled and almost let out a sigh of relief. He’d said “what’s wrong” instead of a simple “what”…

Surely that meant he cared at least a little bit, right?

I shook the hope out of my head. It didn’t matter anyway. Even if he somehow felt anything for me, he’d ended things with me. And in such a humiliating way.

Anything I was about to say vanished. “It…it’s nothing, Alpha Knight. I just wanted to take the day off tomorrow.”

Griffon frowned and furrowed his brows. Of course, he knew I wasn’t being completely honest with me. His wolf could smell the change in my pheromones.

But he just nodded and said, “That’s fine. I’ll see you in the office the day after tomorrow.”

I nodded back, gripping the envelope and my test results tightly.

Eighteen hundred days between me and Griffon. And as I stood there in pain—for us, for my diagnosis, for everything—his parting words to me were, “And Taya…apologize to Tara for hurting her.”

***

When I left the hospital, Griffon’s assistant was waiting outside for me.

Andre took a deed and check from his briefcase.

“Ms. Palmer, this is Alpha Knight’s compensation for you. In addition to the real estate and car, he has also placed five million dollars in your account.”

How generous, I thought sarcastically.

Too bad he never knew what I truly wanted.