Harper gave a firm shake of her head. "I'll never be able to forget the humiliation from the previous three days. Please leave."
After leaving the one sentence behind, Harper got back up to walk up the stairs without a single glance at Preston, as if to have gotten over him.
With his eyes on the unbothered figure from behind, Preston's heart seemed to have been seized, sore, and aching.
Obviously, with his drunken messed-up thoughts, his injury, and by insisting to stay over at her house, he could blurt out anything
he wanted to, regardless of whether it was appropriate. Yet, for some reason, he couldn't bring himself to say, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that to you"…
In the Knight Manor, Griffon took Taya's hand as they came to the garden after dinner… In the garden where all different flowers had been in full bloom, only a wide spread of lychee-pink roses were available at the moment. The tangy aroma of lychees refreshingly wafted into her nose.
Sniffing the fragrance of the flowers, and at the sight of the endless sea of pink flowers and the tw inkling street lights, Taya was stunned.
The seemingly flawless man beside her raised his hand to gently tousle her hair. "Isn't this place better than the text messages?"
To Taya, the romantic atmosphere seemed to have been ruined by his sudden words. "So was it a tease on purpose?"
The corners of Griffon' thin lips curled. With a light chuckle, he stretched out a hand to wave at the maid. "Scissors."
The maid soon brought a pair of scissors over. The man accepted the scissors and stepped forward to cut off eleven stalks of roses.
After carefully removing the thorns, he handed the flowers to Taya in both hands. "I haven't delivered my flowers for today…"
When Taya reached out to accept the bouquet of flowers, she heard him say, "Eleven flowers for a lifetime." Hearing so, Taya bent over to lean up to the man standing amongst the sea of flowers, one head lower than her. "Where did you learn that?"
A guilty smile appeared in Griffon' eyes. Instead of replying to her words, he raised an arm to carry her down from standing on the flight of stairs.
Holding Taya in his arms, he walked through the flowers step by step and came to the hut in the middle of the garden…
After Griffon placed her on the recliner, he knelt on one knee, his eyes that were on her overflowing with affection. "What is your dream mating proposal?"
Taya froze in place, a little dazed staring at the man kneeling before her. "Mating proposal?"Griffon raised his chin for a grave nod. "I want to mate you."
There was no rhetoric, only four simple words, but the urge to burst to tears swelled in Taya's heart.
She once waited for Griffon to say "I want to mate you" for years… Right then, however, he was humbly kneeling before her, even inquiring her opinion on the proposal…
She stared into his eyes shining with sincerity, and after a long silence, she spoke up asking, "At the Civil Affairs Bureau, I once
filed for unmating, and I may not have pups. There's also a huge difference in our statuses, but you'll mate me?"
Griffon raised his knuckle-bo ned hands to cup the fair flawless face, firmly repeating his words, "I will."
The thought of mating her had stayed in his mind for years. After years of waiting for her to open her heart to him, the first thing he
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Seeing that she didn't reply a trans of vullis paric flashed in Griffon eyes "Rays, tot me, what's your answer had to do was to mate her!
Taya's heart shuddered. The clenched hands on the hem of the skirt started rubbing in nervousness…
Seeing that she didn't reply, a trace of visible panic flashed in Griffon' eyes. "Taya, tell me, what's your answer?"
Taya released her grip on the hem of her skirt and gave her final answer, "Let me think about it."
The alarm in Griffon' eyes intensified. "How long do you need?" Taya's eyes lowered to her belly…
He didn't mind the fact that she was a unmated she-wolf, while hard work could overcome the disparity in their statuses, but for their pup…
For a respected and prestigious pack like the Knight, as the ruler of the Knight pack, how was it possible that he didn't have any
pups?
On top of the debate from the media and public, it would, too, be tough for elders of the Knight pack to welcome her into the pack.
Taya's worries held her back from agreeing to his proposal right away. After momentarily being lost in deep thoughts, her soft voice sounded, "About half a month."
Stella had mentioned that after consuming the packets of medicine, they could give it a try. They had made out several times in the past two days, so they could try it out to see if Taya would be pregnant in half a month.
Griffon was well aware that there might be some unforeseen changes after the delay, so he domineeringly rejected her words with an arrogant lift of his chin. "No, that's too long."
Taya stared at the deeply attached eyes. Instead of saying words. of refusal, she shortened the time frame. "Ten days then."
Griffon' head tilted slightly to the side. His drooping strands of hair were sca ttered on his forehead, swaying in the evening wind, sultrily captivating hearts…
He remained to stare at Taya for some time before slowly coming to realize that she wanted to see if she could conceive a pup, and
only then would she give him her answer.
After seeing through her thoughts, Griffon decisively announced, "Taya, it doesn't matter if you can bear pups, I want to mate you,
for sure."
With that, he took her hand and interlocked his fingers with her, declaring in an arbitrary tone, "If you won't, I don't mind mating you by force."
Hearing so, the corners of Taya's lips curled into a helpless smile. "Since you're so determined to mate me anyway, why can't you wait for ten more days?"
Griffon gave her hand a tight squeeze. Rubbing his fingers against her smooth skin, he tentatively asked in nervousness, "Ten days
later, if you aren't pregnant…"
Taya supported her chin with her other hand and jokingly looked at him. "You'll mate me by force then."
Griffon' tensed heart eased along with a smile that appeared in his eyes. "Sure, I'll wait for you."
That night, Griffon hadn't managed to escape Taya's pester as he compromised by giving her his private phone…
Nestling in his arms, a delighted smile blossomed across Taya's face as she scrolled through the thousands of texts.
After reading every single word, she placed the phone aside and raised her head, wiggling free from his arms to look at the man with his eyes closed.
Taking advantage of the sunshine seeping in through the
floor-to-ceiling windows, she planted a light peck on the man she had loved for few years.
"Griffon, you shall plant roses for me throughout the seasons,
and I shall devote to you for the rest of my life…" mumbled Taya to herself.
After the two of them woke up and cuddled together, Griffon sent Taya to the training center.
Only after watching as she entered the door did he take out his mobile phone and send a message in the pack group chat.
"All mated men, please meet me at the company immediately." Preston, who muddled through his days in the company, typed his reply once he received the text. "Are single and unmated men unworthy of meeting you?"
Griffon pondered. At the thought of how Preston's manual had been of quite some help, he added, "You can come as well."
Preston wasted no time taking off his lab coat and grabbing his suit to head over to the president's office…
In the power seat of the conference room sat Griffon, while the rest of the descendants of the Griffon pack took their respective seats.
Preston pushed the door in, only to see his brothers chattering, reviewing how they had proposed mating to their spouses years
back.
Even the tanned William abroad tuned in through a video call projected on the ma*sive screen, giving suggestions.
After listening to their conversation, Preston finally understood that Griffon would be proposing mating, so he was learning from the younger mated brothers.
Preston had one helpless hand on his forehead. "You did not win Taya over according to the manual I sent you, did you?"
Griffon didn't reply. All he did was quirk his eyebrows.
Preston was rendered at a loss for words. How could he have succeeded with the cringy, wrong tips and examples?
He eyed the man who had a faint smile on his lips, and for some reason, was increasingly annoyed…
"Will Grandpa agree?"
As soon as the question was blurted out, a hush silence fell over the conference room as everyone shifted their gazes to the cold man.
Although Griffon was in charge of the Knight pack, they figured that he must receive their grandfather's consent for his mating.
Rumors claimed that the girl Griffon would be mating was not from an affluent or influential pack, not to mention how she was even an orphan. With her pack background, would their grandfather give his approval?
Griffon' fingers tapped on the table thrice before they came to a stop. When he raised his gaze once more, his eyes gleamed with an icy glint.
"What does it have to do with him?"
He would mate whoever he wanted to, no one could stop him! Preston wanted to intimidate Griffon with the terrifying creature, their grandfather. Who would have thought that Griffon wouldn't be affected?
After giving him an indifferent glance, his nonchalant voice rang out. "I want to receive your mating proposal reports within an hour."
Preston groaned as he muttered to himself, "If I had known that the pack meeting would end with just such a sentence, I would never have come over no matter what it cost!"
The inner thoughts of the others were, "Just how exasperated it feels to have a brother who has never gotten in a relationship and has never given a mating proposal!"