Pulling a long face, Griffon said nothing as if to show no interest in communicating with Silas. Seemingly unbothered, Silas raised the corners of his lips to a faint smile. "When we were young, we did suffer a lot. When I'm all grown up, I vowed to mate her when things get better for me. I'll bring her home, and eliminate all the worries for the rest of her life…" He paused briefly and his eyes dimmed, seemingly caught in his past memories.
"Do you know, she asked me countless times when I'd mate her, and I'd always tell her to wait. It was only now that I realized that I shouldn't have made her wait…" Griffon cast a cold glance at him with his eyes. "You finally mated her." The smile at the corner of Si las's lips was bitter. "Yes, I did…" Griffon' handsome and well defined face grew a little gloomy. "Congratulations," he said and was about to leave. Silas then said, "I don't want this acquisition contract, you can take it back." Griffon halted in his tracks and turned to take a cold glance at Silas. "It isn't for you." Silas, who remained calm and composed, chuckled. "I know." Saving him, taking care of him, protecting him, and handing the Sterling pack over to him, it was all for Taya. He had done all he could to prove that he loved Taya dearly, but there was one thing Silas didn't quite understand… He raised his head to scan Griffon from head to toe, his eyes full of doubts. "Since you love her so much, why did you leave her back then?" Griffon' face flashed pale. "It has nothing to do with you." Silas decided against probing and handed the contract back to him. "Alpha Knight, thank you, but I don't want to owe you a favor." Griffon snorted. "Only when you returned to the Sterling pack could you protect her. Now, what right do you have to talk about owning favors?" Sil as's heart missed a beat, suffocating as if Griffon had touched a sore spot that made it seem as if he was a good-for-nothing when it came to Griffon.
He clutched the contract in his hand tightly and took a deep breath to manage a bitter smile. "You're right, I am not capable of protecting her." In the past, he had been incapable of giving her a better life, and so was she hurt by his pack. Right then, he was confined to a wheelchair and became an injured wolf permanently. What did he have to protect her? The man before his eyes exuding a domineering aura was in the power of the Knight pack, the Leiner pack, and the Thorin pack. Should Taya stay by Griffon' side, how could she have suffered? With a relieved smile, Silas curled his lips and let out a soft chuckle before placing the contract aside to withdraw an exquisite box. Slowly, he opened the box, took out the diamond ring, and went on saying in a light voice, "I prepared this diamond ring for her in the past. It's not exactly priceless, but it's what I paid for with my scholarship after nights of academic research and endless experiments…" After recovering his memory, he brought the diamond ring back to the Sterling pack, and sent his men to take it back in the past few days.
He had initially planned to give it to Taya at the wedding, but right then… A pale smile appeared on his gentle face. He raised his slow gaze to Griffon. "You don't know what happened the night I got into a car accident, do you?" Griffon responded with a condescending icy glance. "I'm not interested in your past." Silas knew that he was not interested, but he continued blabbering on talking about their past. I wanted to propose to her the night of the car accident, but I got into a fight with her that night…" "I blame myself for getting jealous for no reason because I saw her laughing and joking with her male cla*smates when she was working at a restaurant." "I couldn't control myself from saying horrible stuff to her. She ended up so mad that she ran into the rain…" "There was a howling rain. I rushed over to carry her, but she shook me off, so I dared not carry her on my back again. Instead, I followed her in silence from behind." "You may not know that what she hates the most is that when it comes to encountering conflicts, is that I choose to remain silent." "It was when she saw me not saying a word that she turned to run in a fit of anger, but by coincidence, there was a car going out of control…" Silas paused when he came to that point, his face pale.
The smile gradually faded into indifference. "I told you all this to let you know that, don't hurt her just because of jealousy, and don't choose to remain silent should any conflict arise." "Although I don't know what happened between the two of you when you broke up with each other, my guess is that there must have been a similar situation with mine…" He used to be the same kind of wolf as Griffon, obstinate and possessive. Such wolf would only learn to love after losing it… Griffon had never spoken a word since then, but his eyelashes fluttered slightly. If Silas hadn't had a car accident back then, he wouldn't have had the chance to own Taya either… Silas 's eyes fell on the diamond ring in his hand, as if to feel reluctant, but braced himself to hand the ring over to Griffon nonetheless. "This wedding is for you." Griffon chose to let go for love. It was only then he understood that true love was to learn to let go. A flash of shock flashed across Griffon' cold and charming eyes. Little had he expected Silas to make such a decision at such a time. Yet, he suppressed the emotions in his heart just with a glance at the diamond ring. Like an almighty king, his unfathomable eyes fell on Silas from above. "She's not an item, she's not something you can give, nor can I, or you think you can manipulate as you like.
She has her thoughts, and her thoughts are to start everything all over again with you. How could you let her down?" If she had chosen him, there was not even the slightest need for him to take Silas seriously or even pay attention to Silas, but since she had chosen Silas, he could only let go. Sil as's face was pale when he heard the words. "Then what about you…" Griffon' handsome and flawless face showed a faint trace of anger. "Since you've gotten her, be selfish. Why bother me." After Griffon finished the sentence to see Taya walking towards them holding the hem of her gown, he left the remaining words in a cold voice, "Take good care of her." With that, he turned around to leave in a flash. Staring at the cold arrogant figure from behind, Silas was filled with admiration. It turns out that that was Griffon, and that was probably why Taya had fallen in love with him… In a wheelchair, he saw a limping sanitation worker, holding a gla*s bottle, rushing towards Griffon. He had carried out tons of experiments, so he could tell what was in it at a glance. Wasting no time, he yelled at Griffon. "Be careful!" As the shout left his mouth, he witnessed as the sanitation worker opened the bottle and turned to splash the liquid out at Griffon. There was a sharp sizzle that pierced through the air… The sound of sulfuric acid corroding the skin was heard. While S ilas's heart tightened, his face turned completely pale. The person who appeared in front of him was Taya wearing a milky wedding dress… She used her back to shield Griffon without hesitation… The intense burning sensation prompted Taya to drop to the floor with a thud in pain, her knees kneeling on the ground with hands propped in the rain. The rain all over the sky, as if against her, poured heavily on her back, causing her to tremble in pain. Griffon turned around to see Taya kneeling on the ground, the skin on her back corroded to black by sulfuric acid… Her petite body was so in pain that she huddled into a ball, kneeling on the ground, not even daring to move. Her face and lips were all deathly pale. With her eyelashes fluttering, she looked up and smiled at him. "I'm disfigured, am I