Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Eighty Four

Chapter Eighty Four

Beatrix’s words were genuine, she had meant every single thing she said.

“Well, I love him too,” I said, staring right into her. “And he loves me.”

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“He never gave me the chance. You say you love him, but could you bleed for him? Would give your life for him? Could you fight for him even with your very last breath? Could you leave behind the people you love.

to be with him?” She questions, and there is something so deep about her words that I’m left silent. “No, you can’t. So what makes you think that you deserve him?”

That night, when Thane had asked me if I met my mother… I lied. I told him I did and didn’t know exactly why I had to lie, but at the moment it felt like the right thing to do, and I could only hope that the maid was the only one who knew that my mother was gone; Thane couldn’t know not after I had lied to him.

Beatrix words replayed in my mind over and over again: she was in love with him, so hopelessly in love just as I was…. if not more, she was willing to do anything just to be with him; what she felt for hirh fell on the line between love and obsession. Yet for the next few days, a more concerning matter filled.

my mind.

My mother has still not returned.

I was

panicking now. Where was she? Maybe I should have told him; he would have helped me find her; what if she is in trouble… or worse, dead, and it would all be my fault because I had chosen to ‘lie‘.

But then, what if she did run away from this place?, After all that happened, what if each day. she stayed in this pack, the terrors tormented her, and she could take it no more? But then she left me behind.

‘You were about to leave her too‘, whispered that other voice in my head, and that was true. I had planned to escape and I left her behind; my plan was to come back for her, but I had told her nothing either, that wasn’t the only time I had tried ‘leaving‘ her; could it be that she had. done the same…?

No, I didn’t believe it; maybe she was in trouble, and I would have helped if only I had

informed Thane earlier.

I headed for his office; the problem was I didn’t know exactly where his office was situated,

passed by my mother’s apartment one more time, deciding to give it a quick check. I knew there

in

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Chapter Eighty Four

Mom?

there was no response. I

to talk to you,” I call out, my heart racing. Someone was in there; I could feel it, and just then the door was pulled open. I had been leaning against the door, so I

fade into thin air if I did. Finally I pulled free of her, but despite the happiness clearly written on her face, there was this pained look to it. The relief was almost too much that

you go?”

“What do

you

mean?” she asks.

the

know I’m busy with work…”

you lying to ma, mother? I came here; you were not here; I was told by a maid

“Which maid?”

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don’t know her name; I’ll barely recognize her if I

“Yes, I

worried; how could you

Before inhaling and running a hand through her hair I noticed her hands were a

going on? You are acting all weird. I had

all there is to say,” she answers, but I noticed the

flinch.

“You are… injured?”

I am