Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Thirty

I woke up with a smile on my face. I didn’t know how long I had slept, but I hadn’t felt this rested since I came here. I was alone on the bed; ‘s not like I expected him to stay.

I couldn’t help but remember everything that had happened last night, and my lower kind of numb. I tried standing up.

That was a big mistake. I lay back down.

“You shouldn’t try that.” The voice called. I hadn’t noticed Axel on the cushion.

“How long have you been here?”

part felt

“A couple of hours,” he says, and I didn’t miss the fact that I was naked, with a lot of evidence of what I had just done with Thane. “You look totally fucked,” he commented with a smirk, and I turned red. He did have a hidden ability to embarrass me.

I pulled up the covers in an attempt to cover my nudity.

“I’m not trying to humiliate you, Riley, but there’s literally no part of you I haven’t seen yet.”

“I think you and Thane are freaks,” I say, and I do mean it, but I abandoned the covers. He was right, though. “Where is he?”

“He’s gone. I think he feels guilty, and that is very strange.”

“Why?”

“He did hurt you, and that’s why he called for me to stay here with you for a while.”

did you know that?,

you about the bond I share with him.

“And

think he feels

think; I

my mind. “You could feel every one of his emotions?”

are easier to catch.”

“Like…”

his wants, his desires.”

it

had been with Beatrix then. I did wonder how he knew that; I thought it had only been a suspicion but now I knew while; he felt it; even as he

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control, almost taking me there, but Axel stopped It, and before he left, he had said the words, ‘I’m sorry‘, It hadn’t occurred to me that

my business, but he had promised to end it. I wondered if I had been good enough. I was no pro; I was no expert

feel last

answered. He wasn’t just saying that for my benefit.

take a

you,” he said before disappearing into the

returned a few minutes later.

I asked when he

afraid?; I can’t harm you.”