Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred And Seven

There was complete pin–drop silence.

The dagger remained embedded into the elders abdomen.

There was one uniform emotion everyone was witnessing; I could see it on their faces: shock.

Thane took out the knife, and the elder fell to the ground, clutching his stomach, his with… fear.

eyes

wide

His skin… There was something weird happening to it; it seemed to be cracking as though his skin was made of porcelain, and then he shattered into pieces, leaving nothing behind but gray ashes.

That’s when the screams began.

“Axel, take her away!” Thane ordered from a distance, and Axel obeyed, immediately picking me up like I weighed nothing and placing me over his shoulders. He carried me back to the packhouse.

The others ran too; no one was bold or willing to witness what a battle with the elders would look like. People trampled over one another to escape.

There was a loud, ear–piercing scream, like one from a banshee. It was from one of the female elders who knelt before the ashes of the fallen elder.

“You cannot leave him…“, I was saying, but my words were drowned out by the turmoil. Thane was the only one left behind, with the cursed dagger in his hands. The elders, on the other side, didn’t seem as calm and untouchable as they once did.

let me down; he was strong, really strong. I couldn’t believe he was leaving

slamming the door shut

me out this instant!”

fighting me, Riley.

against his chest. He took both my hands in a firm

“You aren’t helping.”

you should be there, or at least let me

can’t help, and this time neither can I. He wants me here, protecting

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have a squad of elders trying to kill me, do I? He needs protection, not me.”

calm down and hear me

“I am calm.”

do not care for my Alpha? I would have been there if I thought there was a thing I could do.” He said, and I nodded, taking a

I

him, and it’s okay to care, Riley.”

if they

flinched; that

been injured, hasn’t he?”

Thane’s emotions; he would

can’t handle; he is very much alive;

this had all been planned from the