Chapter 38. The Forgotten Love

Taya's POV

I lacked love. I lacked passion so much that if someone treated me with the tiniest bit of kindness, I would hand over my heart without hesitation. I craved a partner, a mate, the way I saw people around me have.

Not people… shifters. Shifters who would never choose a human as their mate.

Although the two men I’d loved had abandoned me, I didn’t regret my love for them. I had tried my best to love hard, but no one had ever loved me.

Maybe in my next life, the goddess would reward me for what I’d gone through in this one. That idea was more than a little ridiculous.

When a person was dead, they were dead.

I put away my thoughts and looked up at Silas—er, Jackson Sterling. Right now, I needed to concentrate on why I was here in front of him.

“Alpha Sterling, I’ve always treated business associates of the Midwest Packs Corporation professionally. As for what happened five years ago, that’s all in the past. Nothing to