Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Nine

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Bailey finally let me go. She gave me a very long look before she disappeared, leaving just as quickly as she came. I let out a breath of relief.

Then the panic set in. She was going to use me to hurt Thane. I couldn’t let that happen; I would have to tell him, but then, what had she been referring to when she said she wasn’t the first to do something like this?

I couldn’t sit here and wait for Thane’s arrival; I had to go meet him. I rinsed my mouth of the blood before heading to his office. Axel was the only one in there with him; they were going through some documents when I walked in. Two pairs of eyes met mine.

“I need to speak to you, Thane.”

Thane stared at the paperwork on his desk before pushing that aside. “What do you want to speak to me about?”

“Have you used your Alpha aura thingy one on me before?”

“Damn.” Axel muttered. “I should go.

“No, you will stay.” I said to him, and he settled back on his chair. “Please, Thane, don’t lie to me; just tell me the truth; I need to know.”

“Yes, I had.”

“Why?”

“That you don’t want to know, trust me.”

“You had no right, Thane.”

help; you

my mind messed with, so

exactly why

what?” Thane questioned those piercing amber eyes on me.

we are going to have

let out a breath. “Are you sure you want to know?”

I do, and that’s why

his body and placed it in the woods

been by the

it hadn’t been

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finally set in. “I

do things, but you had felt so guilty about it and in

away; you took all the pain away.” I said, and he nodded. I couldn’t find a reason to be mad at him for doing that; he was trying to help me, and

away my

him, Thane. But I did anyway.

killed people too, and I know what it feels like, but over time that pain and hurt… is not so hard to bear

but I couldn’t let it go; the guilt and

sister had died because of me, and now he too was dead. They didn’t deserve it, but selfish

that I had been the one who killed those soldiers; he didn’t know that

he found out; I had only just gotten him back, and yet… I wouldn’t

I began, and now he looked a bit worried.

Bailey had told me not to, and somehow, I couldn’t… I couldn’t tell