Chapter Seventy One

“I don’t need his money, Riley,” my mother says.

“I know, but we need to start up afresh, and so we need this; after it is all over, I promise you we will leave and never return.”

“Why you?” she questions.

“I don’t know….”

“There are so many females; he is an Alpha, the most known; any she–wolf would want him; why did he pick you, and what is he going to gain from this? Because I don’t think your companion for six months is all he wants,” my mother says, hatred in her eyes.

“I’ve asked, but I don’t know what he gains from this either, but we shouldn’t care about that; we would be gone soon.‘

“I know why he picked you,” mother says.

“You do?”

“Yes. It’s some kind of payback. I ran away from this pack many years ago as a… sex slave, and my daughter is taken for the same purpose.”

sex slave!,” I say,

wants;

them then? I remembered that fateful day he walked into the ball for the first time; it was purposeful, like he knew me from somewhere. He also knew my name. He didn’t seem to know that

What my mother said made

could run

tried that before? He caught

he hurt you?” Her eyes were wide with defiance.

deciding not to press me for

that he doesn’t intend to keep you here for a lifetime, or maybe till he tires of you?” She asks, and I remember Thane’s words,

said; maybe I was trying to convince myself more.

not your fault, you were right when

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Chapter Seventy One

you the best I can, but I’m

I assured her, but she didn’t look comforted by that. “We would get out of this together…I hope,” I say, but I don’t believe it; there’s this sinking feeling in my chest, this desperation

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