Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

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Axel let my mother in.

If only he knew that she was the last person I needed. “I would give you both some space,” Axel said.

“Are you

here to give me some more lectures, mom? There’s nothing you say that would change the decision I had already made, so maybe you could make this easy for the both of us and leave,” I said to her even before she could say a thing. Maybe Axel hadn’t picked up on the info the last time; my mother had been a total… I couldn’t call her a bitch, but she had acted very much so, making me feel like I was a naive and ignorant child who couldn’t see that she was headed in the wrong direction. Yet she knew that all I did I did for her and for us.

“Will you

at least hear me out?” My mother asked

“Depends on what you have to say, mother, if it’s along the lines of ‘he is too dangerous for you or your very favourite, ‘a life of slavery back in the Windborne pack is better than a life here‘, then I’m sorry–but not so sorry, I wouldn’t be interested in…”

“I am here to apologize,” she says, cutting me off. “I had been so mad and angry at you, even if I knew you had no faultin it; I should have tried communicating with you better; I should have made you understand, but I had just expected you to know, and when you didn’t

understand things from my perspective, I turned against you too. You aren’t at fault; life has put us in this situation.”

situation, mother; it is my life, and this is what it

you do not know about, things he

man,

do not care to know; I don’t need to know. I know Thane is not a very

this little lie to become a reality. I wasn’t a dreamer; I knew that would never happen. He shouldn’t love me, and I wasn’t to love him either. “That’s all that matters. What we share is more than you can ever comprehend. I might not be happy, but I am surely getting there. Don’t ruin this for me, mother; don’t ruin this little happiness I was finally

cause you pain. I love you, and

anymore; if all this time I had been a fool,

me to the

prefer me to go back with rather than stay here?”

am here; I am here to apologize for everything. I

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is not

to make it look. real. I know you, mother, and I

to have my

You abandoned me; at the time, I needed you the most, and yet you refused to tell me why–why are you against all this? I feel like there is