Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Fifty Two

“Slade.” I called again, but there was no response. Of course, when I needed him the most, he chose to play a disappearing scheme on me. I was not going to have that.” Would you prefer I beg?”

This felt stupid; I was alone in my office, calling for my dead father’s ghost, but of course anyone stumbling upon this scene would find it very…unsettling.

“I can tell you need something.” The voice called. Slade was finally here.

“I thought I had finally lost you.”

“You don’t say that like it is a bad thing.”

“I mean, I need answers, but if I could stop seeing your ghost, then that is even better.”

“I should feel sad, but I’ve gotten accustomed to your manner of caring.”

I watched my father, once I feared this man; the whole world feared him. He was a walking, breathing terror, and now he was…nothing. I couldn’t help but feel a little pity for him, even if he had been the one digging his own grave from the very beginning.

he was a ghost. He tried to mask his little slip with a smile, but I had already picked up on that.

do; he is a family friend.”

I thought he was

told you that?”

to me? I

to believe

get some type of

after a

fact that he is my half brother or

“Both.”

when were you planning on telling me this?”

as you already knew. Many years ago, she confirmed she was pregnant, then I had been having doubts about her; I believed I wasn’t the only man she invited to her bed, so when she told me she was pregnant for me, I didn’t believe her; for some reason, I knew it wasn’t mine. I had waited for her to give birth to the child; my plan was to request a test and if the child was not of

kept

would be a threat to me and everything I had built, still