Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Nine

I hated the fact that Axel simply accepted it all. It was my fault, not his, yet he still wanted to protect me.

“Thane I am at fault,” I say to him, and that gave him a pause. “He had wanted you to know, but I didn’t. I begged him not to tell you, and despite knowing I was doing the wrong thing, I forced him to do just that too.” I had never seen thane this so angry.

“I’d expect him to know better.”

“I forced him into this; this is not his fault.”

“You would have been killed a few hours ago if we had a way to prevent that and didn’t…”

“But I wasn’t,” I said, cutting him off.

“Riley, he is right; I did the wrong thing, and I do not appreciate you trying to defend me,” Axel says.

“No. I am wrong; I am to be blamed; you keep making me feel like some kind of baby; I could be at fault too, and I am now, so if you are going to punish him for what was totally not his fault, then you would have to do the same to me too.”

That was it.

I knew it, his eyes had shifted when he saw me on the floor, wounded, and now… those

it looked like to see Thane lose control, but he was quick to

along, but even if I had, I

brother, but I would if you come any closer,”

You can’t hurt him.”

let him

they were normal. He registered my position behind Akel, and that was all he needed to figure out what

his fault, but I knew he hated those words. Thane always took control of things, and now he wasn’t in control…

silence; I had to break it.

Beatrix is involved in this. Except she planned to disappear from this

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nodded in

pack members?” Axel wondered aloud, just like me, he was trying to

think about it, I thought they smelled foreign.” Thane

there anyone alive?” Axel