Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Eighteen

RILEY

“There’s something I need to tell you.” Thane said to me, his tone calm but I could sense the gravity of his words, and I gave him my full attention.

“Earlier, I told you that I had been seeing my father.”

“Yes, you did.” I prompted him to go on.

“He wasn’t the only dead person ‘visiting.”

“Thane, I think about Axel too; sometimes I dream about him. I understand that.” I said to him, already knowing where this was heading to.

‘No, it’s not Axel- that wouldn’t have been a problem. It’s Bella, my… dead mate. Though she only visits my dreams, it still worries me; I hadn’t dreamed about her in years, and all of a sudden she is all I dream about, and in this dream… it’s always like we were still together, just how it had been before she died.”

“Thane, I trust you. I know you don’t love her, and it’s just the deities trying to mess with your head, but I know you love me, and I love you too. The fact that you see your dead mate in your dreams doesn’t mean a damn thing.” I assured him.

Yes, I felt jealous that he dreamt of another woman; I could swallow that down because I knew he didn’t want to. It just… happens, and I wanted to make him know he could tell me anything.

I never moved on from that because it was a rare

hadn’t expected. “What do you mean she

to know who exactly she was, but she told me the same crap about losing her memories, which I knew was a lie, but today, she stopped by my office once again, but she was a completely different person.

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Chapter Eighteen

please say something.”

speak, I remained silent. I had almost forgotten how to inhale, but all I felt was

tell me the truth

if you knew my mate’s lookalike was in the pack, I didn’t want to hurt you or

why you kept your

a doppelgänger. I wasn’t sure, and I

believe

lie to you, and you know

don’t know