Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Three

There were gasps from every corner of the hall.

“The woman standing before you was not chosen by the moon goddess but by me. I had chosen her because I thought she complimented me, but I was wrong,” he says, turning to me, a sick smirk on his face, and I… I was silenced by the shock I felt. “She is nothing like a queen should be, and I had made a mistake. A mistake I would correct tonight.”

Thane’s smirk widened to a smile.

“From today, Riley Kaidon seizes to be my Luna and Queen.”

Ryker had left my heart bruised, but Thane had mended it up only to rip it apart, over and over and again.

I felt like the wind had been zapped right out of me as the tears streamed down my eyes.

Thane wasn’t moved by my tears; he never was, and he never would be.

He made me love him, he made me fall for his petty lies, he made me hope, and then he shattered the glimmer of hope, leaving me a shell of the person I once was.‘ My mother had explained to me how Slade had broken her, and right before my eyes, Thane had done the very same thing, but he did it better.

I felt Axel’s presence by my side.

I didn’t know exactly how I got out of the hall, but I was back to Thane’s room. I felt… lost. It all didn’t make sense to me; my brain had lost the ability to process things, the pain had become too much, and I was completely numb.

“How could he do this?” Axel repeated over and over to himself. I had never seen him this angry; I had never seen him this disappointed.

“Riley,” he called, but I couldn’t form the words to respond. I should have responded, but I couldn’t. “Please say something, anything,” he pleaded.

Just then the door pulled open and Thane walked in.

you do this to me, Thane?” I questioned but got no answer. I rose, walked to him, and I fell on my

knees.

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‘obsession‘, then the ‘desperation‘ I should have stopped it, I should have controlled my feelings, it was

anything,” I begged, taking off the straps

he see that I had nobody?, I had nowhere to go?, Couldn’t he see that I

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Hundred and

Thane said, without giving me a single glance, my cheeks reddened from the

so fast he was almost a blur. He slammed Thane into

shook in fury. Blood trickled down Thane’s face but his gaze remained fixed on Axel. “Stand down,” Thane growled at him; his eyes glowed; he was using his Alpha Aura, and Axel was fighting it, but he couldn’t overpower it; he gave

both shared a long stare. Thane was trying to tell him

fucked up,

made sense now.

you,” Axel

doing this. It’s because you think you

be safer

Thane sneered

I know what we shared; it cannot

it

is not; I knew what

do you wonder if all this time, I had seen you as fun until you

me deep, but I didn’t want to believe it.

not. I told you this, Thane,