Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Nine

I wondered how bad his parents might have beer for him to be ashamed of them. I knew Axel, maybe not as much as Thane did, but I know he was kind, even more than he would like to

admit.

“You don’t have to talk about it if you aren’t ready to.”

“No, I want you to know,” he insisted, and I was very curious to discover more about him. When I was younger, I thought I had the perfect family; my father was the Beta, and back then, the pack faced so many threats; he was always at war, so he was rarely around, but when he was… he spent his time on me.

I hadn’t realized how jealous my brother had been; I had been so caught up in my own stuff, I didn’t realize that he spent less time with his own mate and even lesser time with brother

my

Adrian.”

Axel had a brother; never once had he mentioned or talked about him, and that was indeed strange. There were so many questions on my mind, but I chose to keep silent until he was -done narrating.

died in the war. My father was the one person I had looked up to so much; I wanted to be like him; he taught me so much, and it had been sad, but that was only the beginning of it all. My mother stayed away from me, it was almost like I wasn’t even a part of the family. Things got worse; my mother became ill–famed, she was known in the pack as a… whore; no one called her that out loud, only out of respect for my father, but that was exactly what she was. I had tried talking to her one too many times, but she told me I wouldn’t understand; she believed Adrian

a visit to the neighbouring pack, but there was a storm and we cancelled, postponing the trip to the next day. I had returned home only to

back my gasp.

“Sick right?”

so sorry, I don’t know what

of pity filled me; maybe that was why Thane and Axel had easily bonded; they had a lot in common; they both

mother forcing my brother into having sex with her, but no. She said she loved him; she said she loved her own son and she wanted him, not all in a motherly way; she said she never cared about the sick old man that had been obsessed over his favourite son. I sometimes think it was my fault; if I hadn’t been so full

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who could ‘understand her‘. And as twisted as it could be, my brother claimed to love her too. I think he is just plain stupid; he had been fed by

threatened to banish them from the pack, not that I would, but I had wanted to put some sense into them;

brother had made a name in a new pack, far away, and they never did split up. My mother had begged me to leave them in peace; she said l’always took her happiness away, just as I did with my father; she said this

the last time

ago, when I–decided to