Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Twenty One

“I didn’t tell my mother about… you.” I said to him, “I didn’t do it for you though, but for her. She has moved on, Bruce; she’s in love now, and she is happy, it will remain that way.”

“You did the right thing. It has been so many years; she deserves to be happy.”

“She does.”

“I don’t expect your forgiveness…”

“I don’t plan on giving you that. What I am interested in knowing is what exactly you are. I know you aren’t a werewolf.”

“You are right; I am not. I am a warlock.

“A warlock?” I repeated.

“Yes, similar to a sorcerer but also… different in some way. A sorcerer is born with magic flowing through their veins, but a warlock isn’t born with magic; we earn it, and for this reason, we operate on a different level.”

“That’s how you were able to make Mom forget about you.”

“Yes. It was a simple spell.”

“When you my father?”

made her forget about you, why did you compel her to believe Slade was

force her to go through each day just to prove to Slade that she was stronger than he ever thought, and that’s exactly what she did. I feared

Bruce, but

nodded. “I know that, and I

rid of your ‘darkness,‘ but I won’t help you with that, not because I can’t but because you shouldn’t. We all have our own darkness, Riley,

“What is this?”

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but made no move to take it. He didn’t push.

but Riley, for your sake, don’t come

with that he was gone.

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lay on the

could think about was Isabella, the

named his mate; but then he betrayed me by

he had been thinking of her when he mistakenly called me ‘Bella‘.

sudden wave of dizziness washed over me. I stumbled forward, my eyes scanning the space for something -anything, to

the air. My vision

Daemon.

he wasn’t looking at me; his attention was on the cut on my forehead, which was now bleeding.