Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Epitoque 1

Epilogue 1

1 had found my mother an hour later at the farm; she was dressed in a regular gown.

“What are you doing? The ceremony had begun, and people were getting very worried.” I said to her, but she gave no response; she had her back to me. “Mom!” I walked to lier, and only when I saw her face did I notice something was wrong.

Tears streamed down her

“I can’t do it,” she says.

eyes.

“What do you mean you can’t do it? Gabriel is the love of your life; you wanted this. What changed?”

“Everything. Everything changed.”

“I don’t understand you–what is wrong? Why are you crying?”

“You never told me. You knew, and you never told me.” She says, and that silenced me. “You knew that your father, Sebastian Bruce, was alive. You always hide things from me, and I had to go on with it because you are the queen, and you can’t always share things with me like you once would do, but this wasn’t about you–this was my life, and you never uttered a word. You were going to leave me in the dark.”

“Bruce had left us for years; you moved on. How do you expect me to mention him again? How do you expect me to bring him up at your own wedding?”

“He had a reason–there was a reason he had to abandon us.”

“What did that matter? It was in the past; he was in our past, but Gabriel… you love him.”

“You know, I always felt like something was missing. I always felt incomplete, and sometimes I lay down, imagining a person that was never real, a man I had loved once, and it turns out it wasn’t all my imagination, Riley. I loved him, and even if he made me forget, I didn’t I still unconsciously yearned for him; I yearned for that emptiness in me to be filled up, and then… I saw him, and everything came back.”

“He made you remember?”

“Yes, he made me remember. I remember it all now. I thought I could go ahead and marry Gabriel even after my discovery, I thought I could forget it all but couldn’t. I can’t be with Gabriel. I love him, but my heart belongs to another.”

“You said it before: this pack, it’s your home; they love you here; Gabriel needs you. Don’t do this, Mom, please.”

“You made your decisions; they did look stupid at times, but I let you. Now all I ask of you is to let me make mine.”

She passed a paper to me.

“What is this?”

the pack to tell them this; I can’t face Gabriel and tell him I love another man, and the years away didn’t change that, and so I

don’t do this.”

what it would have been like if I followed my heart instead; he doesn’t deserve that; he deserves better,

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Epitoque 1

Epilogue 1

had found my mother an hour later at the farm; she was dressed in a

were getting very worried.” I said to her, but she gave no response; she

streamed down her

it,” she says.

eyes.

it? Gabriel is the love of your life; you wanted this.

“Everything. Everything changed.”

wrong? Why

me. “You knew that your father, Sebastian Bruce, was alive. You always hide things from me, and I had to go on with it because you are the queen, and you can’t always share things with me like you once would do, but this wasn’t about you–this was my life, and

for years; you moved on. How do you expect me to mention him again? How do you expect me to bring him up

was a reason he

past; he was in our past,

know, I always felt like something was missing. I always felt incomplete, and sometimes I lay down, imagining a person that was never real, a man I had loved once, and it turns out it wasn’t all my imagination, Riley.

made you remember?”

discovery, I thought I could forget it all but couldn’t. I can’t be with Gabriel. I

it’s your home; they love you here; Gabriel needs you. Don’t do this,

look stupid at times, but I let you. Now all I ask of

a paper to

“What is this?”