Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Ten

I passed the signed document back to him, but his eyes, they never left me.

“Do you know the severity of the contract you just signed?” he asked, the smirk stretching along his lips again. I could hear Ryker’s words in my head ‘you wouldn’t last two weeks with him‘, I could remember the panicked look in my mother’s eyes when he proclaimed me as his mate, never had she looked so afraid, not even when I was mated to Ryker that should be enough to tell me that something was very wrong with this alpha sitting before me, and maybe his whole pack too, but no, I was willing to do anything to escape my past, even if it meant running head first into danger.

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“Yes, I know” I answered but I lied, I was yet to understand the severity of what I had just done. 1

Alpha Thane rose to his feet and it took everything in me to sit there and not bolt out of the ” office‘, he walked towards me.

“What are you doing?”

“Afraid?” he asked and I wanted to say ‘no‘, I opened my mouth but no reply came forth. He wouldn’t kill me, he had no reason to, but again there are other fun things he could do to make it worth the hassle.

Seated, his height was very intimidating; he squatted to get to my level.

“Kiss me, just as you did in the ball” he says more like orders. But I can’t move, I cannot initiate a kiss, not when those dark orbs stared at me like they could read deep into my soul. He was right, I was afraid of him in every sense of the word. “You’ve disobeyed, once” he says “Would… would you punish me for disobeying?” I asked; I didn’t want to think about what punishment he would have in store for me. 1

a warning this time, but next

left regretting why I wore this dress. “Come with me,” he says, rising and stretching out his hands to

my own. 1

his hands drop to the side as he walked out of the ‘office“, abandoning the contract on the desk. This time he didn’t wait for me to follow;

rows of rooms, some of the doors larger than the others. I couldn’t help but wonder just how big this place was. Finally, we stopped before a wide shiny black door. He pulled it

belonging-

when I noticed the huge king size bed at the

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far too uncomfortable for me, much worse, knowing how powerful they were. I couldn’t

thinking about that

his for six

close. From what I was told, Thane was known for having fewer friends; he wasn’t the type to easily trust people, but

had only said it out for ‘my‘ benefit. “I want to formally introduce you to my temporary mate, Riley,”

before, and we were together in the car, even if I didn’t exchange a single word with him. Axel was a little similar to Thane; one could almost think they were brothers, but they weren’t. I knew that.

little agreement‘ while he was trailing behind us the night of the mate ball, but Thane was simply making