Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty One

It felt like good things weren’t destined to happen to me. I hated my mother more than I had ever done my whole life because she had told me a truth that I didn’t want to hear.

Why did she have to tell me?

That was the question echoing over and over in my mind.

I couldn’t think of Thane as a brother, not after all we shared and all that happened between us. I had to be strong; no one was to see me in tears, so I had escaped to a more secluded space, a dressing room of some kind; there was no one in here, so I could cry my heart out.

I felt like I had lost something dire to me, even if he was still there. This was what she wanted; she wanted to separate me from the only man I truly wanted.

I would never let that happen. I had told myself that I would fight for what Thane and I had, and ‘this‘ wouldn’t change it.

But then being with him could feel so… wrong.

Someone walked in.

“I need some quiet time; leave now,” I ordered, backing the door.

him. I couldn’t control the tears. “What happened?

that?” I

what is it?”

shut the door?”

shut the door before walking to me. “Riley,

is the

“Is she hurt?”

to him or if it was alright to share it. “You know those times the truth

reasons, I

and she said she wanted to speak to me; of course I had gone to meet her,

speak to me; there is no way I can help you if I don’t know

I am so sorry, and I know

alright,” he assures

so darn wrong of me, but I was in love with the son of the man who had

she didn’t have things mixed up? You look nothing like Slade, no offense.

when he abducted me, something about my father, and… I

in his arms. “I’m so sorry Riley, this is just as shocking to me as it is to you; it feels almost impossible,” he says, and he was right; I was