Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Five

“The last time I was here, you seemed to be in such a hurry to do just that.”

“I thought I was keeping you safe; If only I knew you were like a problem magnet.”

“So let me guess, you would give me a whole crap talk about how you were willing to hurt me, humiliate me, just to ‘protect‘ me.”

That silenced him, and then his gaze found something I had left on, my engagement ring. For some reason, I felt the need to hide it.

He grasped my hand, staring at it.

“What is this?”

“What does it look like?”

“You’re engaged?” He said the words like it didn’t make sense.

“Yes, and keeping me here isn’t really helping me in any way.”

cold orbs that sent chills down my spine.

he says more to himself than to me. “I should be happy you’ve moved on, but I can’t be happy for you, Riley,” he says, looking

from his hold, taking

that against me; you broke me. Do you know how long I spent crying over you,

version of myself, and yet, as much as I hated you, I still waited. Day after day, I hoped you would change your mind, but you never came, and I had to move on. You think this was easy for me? I had no

for me.

wasn’t going to waste away; I wasn’t going to let you do the same thing with me your father did to my mother, and so I tried, but you never stopped haunting me; you

gods, I hated him so much. I hated him so much for what he put me through, and all through my little speech, he

bad. I thought I was doing the

you and your many problems, you were the one with the problems not me and yet you

Hundred and Eight The

so low, just to be with you. Not

actions hurt you and I knew that, but you were never going

all you gave me. I believed in what we

second. I was miserable, Riley, and yet I couldn’t go to you until I was sure I had full control, until I was sure I would never hurt you again. I was not planning on letting you go, I was going to come find you because it took only a single day to realize I could not leave without you” A part of me always knew, I knew he was trying to keep away, only so he wouldn’t hurt me, that didn’t make things any different. If he loved me, he would have found another way. I would never let myself fall one more time. I hadn’t fully recovered from the past hurt, I wasn’t going to let myself get tangled in this mess once

some spineless wolf, you just

“No you