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.”

once again those cold orbs that sent chills down

“I should be happy you’ve moved on, but I can’t be happy for you, Riley,” he says, looking

from his hold, taking some

knew that, but you used that against me; you broke me. Do you know how long I spent crying over you, waiting and hoping you showed up, but you never

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

for me.

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 were there in my

crying now, and I couldn’t hold it back. gods, I hated him so much. I hated him so much for what he put me through, and all through my little speech, he

really bad. I thought

for you? It has always been about you and your many problems, you were the one with the problems not me and yet you made me feel like I wasn’t good. enough, you made me question my self worth. I was so desperate for you, gods, I

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bring myself so low, just to be with you. Not

I knew that, but you were never going to be safe with me, and that became clear after the

believed in what we had, and I was

even a fucking 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

am not some spineless wolf, you just never did see

“No you