Chapter Seventy Five

“Yes. It would only make me a creep if I told you that I know everything about you; I knew you would get to that” Thane explains

“My mother said something.” I paused. I didn’t want to say anything to annoy him, not now when he was finally ready to talk.

C

“Go on,” he prompts.

“She says you want me here… as some kind of punishment for her running away,” I said, looking away from Thane.

“Do ‘you‘ think that’s why I want you here?” he questioned

“I don’t know; you’ve never given me any reason exactly, and her perspective seems quite logical.”

“After I took over as the Alpha, I ended the slave trades; now our captives have a choice. Do you know why?” he asked

“Why?”

“Because I never wanted another woman to be treated the way your mother was, ever again. Riley I’m not trying to get back at her.”

like a fool for blaming her; if only she told me earlier…” I trailed off, wiping the tears.” I know she would be disappointed if she knew the mistake I had been about to

have happened if I didn’t get to you fast enough; I would have lost you too,” he says, but my mind hangs on those two words, ‘you too‘. “And it would have been entirely my fault. Maybe then I’ll let your mother do with me as she pleases; after all, I had been the reason her child committed suicide. I never really thought it would get to that, but you have to promise me, Riley, that you will never do that

won’t. I

says, and there’s a hint of desperation in his tone, and I wondered if all those emotions he let slip had

“I promise Thane.”

about you

life; I was just an

possibly be because she doesn’t know who he is.” Thane commented, and

by so many people, then it could be any of

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Chapter Seventy Five

feeling that she does; she just never

up in my mind. Axel. He hadn’t used any protection, right? I didn’t remember him putting

“What’s wrong”

C

“Nothing,” I lied.

have to worry,” Thane says, and my eyes

don’t believe in magic and stuff, but if I was told you were a mind reader, I wouldn’t

to have triggered

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