Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Four

It wouldn’t make sense for Thane to come here after everything. Yet, maybe I’ve been wrong all along; perhaps, just like me, he couldn’t stay away.

I never bothered to think about the fact that Gabriel wouldn’t refer to the Alpha King as someone‘, I didn’t want to think, my heart seemed to have a mind of its own. I followed Gabriel down the stairs, and all the while, I imagined scenarios of what it would be like to see Thane again. Would he be sorry for what he had done to me? Would I forgive him?

The answer was; Yes. Call me pathetic and foolish, but I knew that would be my answer if he pleaded genuinely. A part of me knew he would come–for me, and that part of me ‘waited‘ each day for him.

Was it possible to hate and love a person?

Yes, it was. I hated Thane, but also I loved him.

Finally, I walked into the living space, and there I noticed…

There was no Thane.

For some reason, that hit me so hard. I should have known better, but I didn’t.

I never realized how hopeful I really had been to see him again until now, and… I felt so disappointed.

“These peo

people are here to see you; do you know them?” Gabriel asked, and Nick, who had waited down stairs with the visitors, also waited to hear what I had to say.

No.

No. None of them looked familiar to me. Not the aged man, not the woman by his side, and definitely not the younger man who stood behind them.

wasn’t Thane

directed at them, but at myself, at my very desperate self for thinking he was going to come find me, for

had been silent for way too

it took

say, approaching the

the way he watched me; I feared. he would see it on my face–the hope, the disappointment, the anger, and

seek your help,” he said to me, his voice quavering. I could tell this was a high–ranking wolf, and yet he

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his face; the woman by his side

with that expression on

couldn’t be more than

my help for?”

sit?” the man

He began;

attack; you see, we are a peaceful pack, and so it caught us all off guard; we had no idea what we

am so sorry, but… how exactly did you think I could help you?” I

the attack came from–this

start wars; he had other better things to do,

did I

well enough to know that this wasn’t his doing. I also knew that

clothing on the floor like it