Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

hapter Twenty Six

There was this strange emotion in me. I couldn’t let Axel know, so I did my best to think of everything but that Thane had spent the night with Beatrix, leaving me in my room all alone. I hated it. I had admired the girl when I first saw lier, but now, I felt the dislike brewing in me.

“Are you okay?” Axel asked as we headed on our way to the woods.

“Yes” I lied.

“You aren’t. You are jealous.”

“You feel like you know everything, but you don”

“I don’t know everything, but that I know”

“I should have expected that, it shouldn’t surprise me, I hadn’t ‘satisfied‘ him, so perhaps he got that elsewhere”

“Don’t blame it on yourself, is not your fault”

I nodded, shoving away that memory.

“How far are we going?‘ I asked when we arrived in the woods.

“Far enough”

“Axel”

“Yes?”

weaker connections with our wolves, and transforming to our wolf form doesn’t come as easily as it did to the others. I had only transformed into my wolf form three times in my entire life, the first when I was of age and it had been so painful, the second time after the meditation lessons I took, and the third. I couldn’t remember what triggered it, but I remembered being so angry at everything–at life for making me this way, at the

But a

had been no more, no matter how

angry

I

won’t be shifting; I’ll

boxers. I had been watching him all this time. I couldn’t help but notice how

said, looking

“I don’t mind.”

the last plece of

I peeped.

was naked.

chuckled at that he shifted into

I had ever seen; his fur was brown and beautiful.

climbed on, holding onto anything I could lay my hands on. He waited for me to get comfortable before he zipped into the forest. I felt the cool

but then I remembered he couldn’t answer that in his wolf form. We stopped at the same position

attention is needed,” he explained to me as he put on his clothes, and I, on the other hand, was trying so hard to look at any

missed my mother. I was going to go check on her, despite myself. I did hurt her, but what puzzled me was the coldness in her eyes. Even at the joining ritual, she had been there, but the longer she stayed in this pack, the more of a stranger she

to our room was pulled open as Thane walked