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.”

eyes were once again those cold orbs that

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

I pulled my hands away from his hold, taking

I loved you, and you knew that, but you used that against me; you broke me. Do you know how long I spent crying over you,

out this 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 one; I was in a foreign land, and I had to stare at my mother each day, knowing she was right about you and you

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,

hold it back. gods, I hated him so much. I hated him so much for

fucked up really bad. I thought I was doing the

thing for me, or for you? It has always been about you and your many problems, you were the one with the problems not me and yet

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bring myself so low, just to

dangerous; my actions hurt you and I knew that, but you were never going to be safe with me, and that became clear after the attack.”

believed in what

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,

spineless wolf, you just never did

“No you