The Billionaire Alpha’s Contract Lover by Caesar Erickson novel Chapter 212

Chapter 212
The banquet hall was very large and luxuriously decorated. It was lit with warm yellow lights and played soothing music.
The wolves who came to the banquet wore high-end dresses
and held goblets of wine laced with wolfsbane, whispering to
each other.
Everyone from the Sterling pack had good manners, from
senior pack members and down. When they saw Taya, they didn’t make sarcastic remarks but politely greeted her.
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Taya felt a little uncomfortable. She was used to being one of the only humans in the room, if not the only one, but typically shifters tended to be dismissive of her. That people were being polite to her threw her off.
Jackson seemed to have read her mind. He whispered in her
ear, “You’ve been busy with this project with me recently, and
you’ve done a good job. It’s expected for you to attend the celebration banquet as my female companion, and my pack
knows if they aren’t polite to my guests, there will be hel l to pay for embarrassing me.”
After hearing what he said, Taya tilted slightly to create space between their bodies. She didn’t want anyone to think that

this was more than her attending as someone who’d worked
on the project.
As seen through Jackson’s eyes, her small gesture was
noticeable, somewhat of an insult.
Jackson didn’t show that he thought anything of it. After
leading her to the main table and sitting down, he called the
waiter over and ordered a hot tea for her.
“Drink this first. It’ll warm you up. I know they keep it cooler in here because shifters are always hotter.”
He picked up a spoon and stirred the tea to cool it down before handing it over to Taya.
His actions were the same as Harper’s, which had been their
habit since they were children.
They knew she was afraid of being scalded after badly
burning her mouth once, so they always helped her stir and cool things down before giving them to her.
Especially Silas. No matter what the situation was, he would
let her eat first.

Silas feared she would stop taking medicine, so he worked while studying and gave her all the money he earned.
Taya always laughed at him for being so stupid, but he’d gently touched her head and said, “Taya, you’re mine. I can’t let you starve, right?”.
He had treated her so well that she had been spoiled. She had always been willful and domineering, throwing tantrums over small matters.
If she hadn’t lost her temper that day, Silas wouldn’t have been hit by a car to save her, and they wouldn’t have ended up like this.