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.”

again those cold orbs that sent

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

I pulled my hands away 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,

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

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

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

really bad. I thought I

the one with the problems not me and yet you made me feel like I

and Eight

to be with you.

was too dangerous; my actions hurt you and I knew that, but you were never going to be safe with

me. I believed in what we had,

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

not some spineless wolf, you just never did

“No you