Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Seven

(Riley’s POV)

I didn’t know what my mother had against Alpha Thane and his father, but she had agreed to come with me after I had persuaded her. I had to tell her what Ryker had wanted me to be—a little pet for him—and that was all she needed to finally change her mind. Though she didn’t like this idea and I knew it, we both knew we had no other choices, and I would rather die than leave my mother here.

She helped me pack up. I had only a few things; I picked out only the important things, and a single bag was enough to contain my stuff.

.

Alpha Ryker walked into my room, not bothering to knock.

“You know it is very unappropriate to walk into a lady’s room without knocking, right?” I questioned, and my mother gave me a questioning look, but this time I didn’t listen.

“Now the true Riley shows herself; I knew you had all that pent-up anger in you for a long time; I actually expected you to slip in the mating ball last night, and I am totally surprised you didn’t.”

walking past him to pick up a single framed picture of me and my mother, the only one I had. I couldn’t imagine; I

you are mated to Alpha Thane,” he asked and I could sense his anger, but I couldn’t bring

I am the Luna to an Alpha; I bet you know the

walking closer. For a moment, I believed he was going to hit me. For a moment, I believed he wouldn’t be able to control his anger and would forfeit getting beaten up by my Alpha Thane just to get a mark

small smile on my lips—the same one I had itched to give him when he watched me walk away with Thane in the ballroom. He was powerless when

I will make your mother’s

I say. I didn’t miss the slight look of surprise in his eyes before he masked it yet again. I pushed past him. “Sometimes I wondered why you care so much; I am no longer your mate; you rejected me; you told me straight to my face that I

are mine, rejected or not; you were fated to be with me, and

you were going to have me and

perks of being the

fool you must have been if you think I would let you use me one more time after all the filthy lies you whispered into my ears. I would never let you touch

to you, when I had said all those same

other, but do you know what you don’t deserve?

took your virginity, promising you falsities,

my mother’s turn to speak now. “Hold it there, young boy;

nothing but a slave;

“Get out of my room, or else

on his lips, one I would so love to

this pack, and do you know what I would do then?” He asked without waiting for an answer, which I wasn’t really going to give him, and he continued. “I would let you back in, just for my ego’s sake, and if you think the life you are living now is bad, I would make it worse for you and the old hag,”