Chapter 317
Taya had answered his call. She wasn't dead. Andre and Stella were lying to him, playing their parts in her game to punish him.
And they would pay dearly for taking part in this whole scheme Taya had gone through so much effort to concoct.
Once his irrational fear was eased, he schooled his voice to remove any unnecessary emotion in it. He was a freaking Alpha, after all. "Taya," he said, somewhat gruffly despite his best efforts to sound composed.
Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, Harper heaved a deep sigh in her heart.
She hadn't wanted to answer it, but...
There was a folded piece of paper in the drawer where she had found Taya's letter to her.
This one was to Griffon. It didn't say much, but it told Harper everything she needed to know what Taya had been thinking and how she felt.
Now, she felt it was her duty to answer the phone and speak
to Griffon herself.
After taking a deep breath, Harper managed to speak the awful words out loud. "Taya is gone.".
Griffon had been waiting for Taya's reply but didn't hear her voice. Instead, it was an unfamiliar female voice.
Ignoring the sentence, "Taya is gone," he said in a deep voice, "Tell her to come to the phone and speak with me. Enough of
this nonsense."
"She's dead. She can't come to the phone."
This was the third time today that he had been told Taya was dead. How hateful.
He tightened his grip on his phone. "Who the hell is this?"
"This is Taya's sister, Harper Duke."
He knew of Harper and who she was to Taya, but he still did not believe what she said. If anyone was going to help Taya punish him and play along with it, it would be her. "Ms. Duke, you can tell Taya that I'll just continue to call until she answers. I'm not going to give up until she stops with thisNôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.