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

go with a warning this time, but next time,” he trailed off, his eyes lowering down

this dress. “Come with me,” he says, rising and stretching out his hands to help me up. I

my own. 1

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; I moved quickly

this place was. Finally, we stopped before a wide shiny black door. He pulled it open, and this time he waited for me to walk in before shutting the door. Once again, we were alone. That’s what I thought until I perceived a scent that was slightly familiar.

bag I came with–my only belonging-

king size bed at

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

be thinking about that

for six months.

between the two of us. The two men seemed to be very close. From what I was told, Thane was known

‘my‘ benefit. “I want to formally introduce you to my temporary mate, Riley,” he said.a

if I didn’t exchange a single word with

was trailing behind us the night of the mate ball, but Thane was simply making it known that Axel too was in on this.