Chapter Seventy Three

Dinners… Parties…. events.

Two weeks pass by and I am completely numb. I might be alive but not exactly living; everything seems to move in a blur. I do as Thane says, not once going against him; my mother is worried, but I didn’t know how to explain to her that her little girl had been so ready to leave her all on her own. The equipment I destroyed had been replaced that very day. Thane never brought it up, but it would always remain an unanswered question.

Why? Why did I think taking my own life would solve anything? I still couldn’t give an answer to that because at that moment it felt so right, but when I was finally calm, reflecting on it, I knew it had been so wrong.

We were both in the room. Thane was saying something, but I couldn’t make out the words.

“Riley?” he calls, finally noticing that I wasn’t following at all.

“Yes Thane?”

“What’s wrong with you?” he asks.

“I’m sorry, I’ll try…”

“You don’t have to be sorry for anything; you did nothing wrong,” he says sounding slightly irrigated, and I am about to apologize again, but his stern look cuts me off. “If you are missing/ Axel’s company, then I could have him here”

“No, is not that.”

“Then what is it?”

“I thought this was what you wanted. I thought you wanted a little submissive, Luna. I want to be just that.”

fight me; it

it would only get me punished.”

part of

want to be punished.”

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glint back in his eyes, and suddenly my

for wanting him. I was slowly becoming those very strange, annoying girls I read about–the girl who can’t see what is right from what is wrong, the

of Thane’s father. I hated him for what his father did to my

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he was the monster for just a while. I wanted his

Thane,” I confessed. “But I feel like a traitor for wanting that.”

and maybe you hate me right now,

with

it is

okay with

he is; I think he liked fucking you

had been about to make a few weeks ago. I felt this need to explain my actions, but again I said nothing. His eyes are not judging me; I don’t like the pity either, but I’ll take

Thane walks further into the

some space.

a question. “Sorry, I kept my distance from you… I

you thought was the

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