Chapter 99


    Chapter 99


    “Why?”


    After I spoke, Jackson’s calm face instantly turned sinister, his eyes changing color to the dark orange


    of his wolf’s.


    “You’re still asking me why,” he sneered. “Why was I lying unconscious in the hospital while you were fu


    c king another man? After all that’s happened, and you still want to be with me? You’re ridic ulous.”


    My breath caught in my throat.


    With those words, I knew he hadn’t lost his memory at all. He truly had only pretended it so he could


    abandon me.


    Goddess, I was so stu pid to think that the decent Jackson Sterling in front of me was still my Ss,


    who had promised to love me for a lifetime.


    I regretted everything-going to beg for Jackson, kneeling before


    him…


    I remembered that second kick he’d given me.


    He’d used all of his immense strength to nt his booted foot in my chest.


    He knew that I’d had surgery on my heart. He knew it was weak,


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    that it shouldn’t be able to take a bl ow to the chest.


    After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, I’d finally understood that he wanted me to di e…


    There I was, trembling in a pool of blood, but he’d only looked at me with a snarl on his mo uth.


    “Taya, I don’t love you anymore, and I don’t want to be with you anymore, so don’t bother me! And


    remember this clearly: I’m now the Alpha of the Sterling pack, not Ss Johnson from the orphanage. If


    you or Harper Duke dare to expose my past identity or use it to threaten the Sterling pack, I will make


    you regret it.”


    I had seen Griffon’s indifference, suffered through his moods, but Ss was much…much more thanMaterial ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    him.


    Even if Griffon had only regarded me as a substitute, at least he had never lied to me.


    Ss kept saying he loved me so much that he would give up everything for me. He said he didn’t care


    that my wolf had nevere, he would protect me. Said that he had wolf enough for the both of us.


    But what did I get in return?


    Nothing. He had even abandoned Harper, his older sister.


    If it weren’t for Ss’s ruthlessness, I never would have agreed to be Griffon’s lover.


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    I had wanted to take revenge on Ss by doing so. He was


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    looking down on me for selling myself. So I would do more of what he didn’t like.


    my


    But it changed. I failed to control my emotions. And then physical reaction to Griffon made me gradually


    forget about Ss. I’d found it hard to believe that me, who had been hurt so badly by Ss, could fall in


    love with another man.


    Griffon had brought me out of the haze I’d been living in with his asional warmth…


    I thought that it might have something to do with my orphan background.