Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred And Twenty Two

I had prepared exactly what I would say to Thane but the moment he walked in, all I had rehearsed for hours was completely forgotten.

eves

His brown hair fell over his amber eyes and that’s all I could think about, how beautiful his

were. I couldn’t lose him, not just because he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen my whole life, but because I had fallen so in love with this man that I didn’t think I could live without him.

“Riley,” he calls.

“Welcome back, Thane.”

“You seemed to be a bit lost checking me out,” he mused with a smile before walking to me. “I got you something.”

“Oh” I said in response; he took out the box and pulled it open, and it was a golden bracelet with emerald and blue flowery designs.

‘I could only think about you when I saw this,” he says, taking my hands and securing the bracelet around my wrist, No doubt it was pure gold; it looked so beautiful and very costly too. “Thane, I can’t take this.” I said even if I would very much love to.

“Riley, don’t turn this down,” he warns.

“I’m sorry, I just thought it was a bit too much.”

“For you, nothing is too much.”

I stared at the jewellery; it was the most beautiful piece I had ever seen. “Thank you, love it.”

glad you

wanted to talk to you,” I said to him as he shrugged

“I’m listening”

was wondering; how would you feel

he questioned. I had

I said silently.

Thane. I

that. Riley, if this is about having kids–well, I won’t refer to my daughter as a

myself asking and almost

you were heading?”

felt harder now. “I went to my mother’s today” 1 began, my eyes watered. “She told me something, a truth that I wish I never knew about. You know that my mother and your father had been…

“Riley stop”

to hear me out.”

could never be

picked on faster than I had; maybe he too had suspicions.

feeling that he knew, but I didn’t want to believe it. My mother had been pregnant with

I

stared at me, his looked mad. “But you look nothing like him; you look nothing like me, and with the Alpha Blood

mother was saying the truth.” “And she has to tell you this truth now? Doesn’t that sound a bit suspicious?” “Thane. I told my mother about the contract. She had been so worried, and I was trying to assure her that we would leave this place soon. But I never did inform her when things changed; she didn’t tell me anything about who my father was because she

you, not after what my

doesn’t matter right now.

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so hard, I fidgeted. “I could never see you as my sister after all we have done,

I would never stop loving you, and I would never