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.

turn to face him. I couldn’t control the tears. “What happened? Who hurt you?” He

that?” I manage to

is

shut the

shut the door before walking to me. “Riley, please tell me

mother, she is the problem.”

“Is she hurt?”

how to tell this to him or if it was alright to share it. “You know

Axel answers, and for some reasons, I felt like he alone could understand

mother sent a letter to me earlier this morning, and she said she wanted to speak to me; of course I had gone to meet her, and she started with some talk about her past…”

I can help you if I don’t know how to.” He says, and

thought what I had with Thane would come to an end soon, and… She knows about the contract too; I am so sorry, and I know I shouldn’t have told her, but I needed someone to talk to, and she wanted to leave this place so

alright,” he assures me.

me, but I was in love with the son of the man who had hurt her so badly, I didn’t know how to tell her. But she must have noticed it. She revealed the truth, Thane is my brother and this was the truth I never wanted to hear.”

things mixed up? You look nothing

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

and he was right; I was nothing like Slade; he was an Alpha; if he