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.

man called Logan Dimintri?” I questioned, watching his face pale, which was ironic as he was a ghost. He tried to mask his little slip with a smile, but I had already picked up

he is a family friend.”

mean, I thought he was my half brother.”

told you

even listening to me?

know better than to believe what

and that’s exactly why I came to you, hoping to get some type of explanation, but of course I

after a moment of silence.

exactly? Is it about the fact that he is my half

“Both.”

when were you planning

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 my blood,

you kept

be a threat to me and everything I had built, still I kept you. I raised you as