A Bitter Encounter

Preston tilted his head slightly and looked behind me. “Isn’t it here?” I turned around and looked at the white wall in a daze. Could it be that Preston was not of the same species as me, so he saw something different with his wolf eyes that my human eyes couldn’t see? Preston glanced at me as if he were looking at a fool. He stepped forward and knocked on the door, which opened automatically. Then he pointed at the letters on the wall and scolded me as if he were teaching a lesson to a primary school student. “Isn’t it clear enough? Don’t you know English?” I suppressed my anger and replied, “Yes, I do.” I’d been so me blush, it seemed he couldn’t help mocking me again. “Ms. Palmer, beauty alone is not enough. Knowledge is also vital. Otherwise, it won’t be so easy to mate into the Sterling pack.” His sarcastic tone was the same as Griffon’s.

They were indeed related. Ignoring Preston, I walked into the break room, picked out my son coffee beans, and put them in the coffee machine to