Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Sixty Six

THANE

Maybe it had been because this had happened once before, or maybe because despite her words, I still saw through her.

She didn’t mean any of it; she must have been forced, wondered what Daemon could have over her.

Riley would never move on without Ethan.

I slipped my hands into my pocket, and I noticed a piece of paper. I was sure it hadn’t been there a while ago. I pulled it out.

Riley must have slipped it into my pocket, maybe at the time she hugged me. I couldn’t help but smirk; that was a smart move. On the paper were written three words that seemed to be scrambled in a haste.

‘Use the pendant.‘

“Thank you for coming.” Bruce said, letting me in.

The building was a perfect hideout; the outside made it seem like this was an abandoned space, but inside was completely… different.

“Did you bring the pendant along?” he asked, and I nodded, tossing the emerald pendant to him; he caught it.

I spotted a mid aged woman, she stood by his side with a smile that looked too fake on her face. “This is Tracy; she would be our host.”

“Host?”

“Yes, Jade would need a body to return to when she is free.

this?” I asked, referring to

he said.

–

deeper into the building; the woman seemed to have been hypnotized. I could easily tell that; there was no light in her eyes, and the smile remained on her face all through the short tour.

do. When you go into Hades, you will find Jade. She needs your body, and you

Tracy nodded.

a dagger; using it to split her palm, he let her blood drop on

out a loud scream,

before I only thought just like the rest, they were

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isn’t worth your pity; she

don’t pity

it. It will

Daemon keeps Riley, and I would go end

I want to know even more than you, just so I could end him, but I don’t.”

have some kind of

with you, but I

does that

a ‘lifetime house arrest.‘ I was only able to find a loophole, but the more

for Riley and her mother, isn’t it? It wasn’t because you abandoned them, but because you couldn’t leave this place.”