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 sent chills down my spine.

should be happy you’ve moved on, but I can’t be happy for you, Riley,” he says, looking away from me as if

my hands away from his hold, taking

you, and you 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, 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 were no

for me.

you do the same thing with me your father did to my mother, and

couldn’t hold it back. gods, I hated him so much. I hated him so much for

really bad. I thought I was doing

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

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so low, just to be with you. Not

my actions hurt you and I knew that, but you were never going to be safe with me, and

I believed in what we had, and I was

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

you just never did see it”

“No you