Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Sixty Nine

I knew Julia was going to pay me a visit–I had anticipated it. But as the hours passed, I began to hope I had been pardoned. That hope shattered when I awoke from my slumber to find her seated in the chair facing me.

“Empress.” I acknowledged, about to rise to my feet.

“There would be no need for that,” she says.

I looked up to see Trian standing there, his gaze hard.

“I’m so sorry; I disrespected the Empress, but I didn’t mean to.”

“I hear you are tired of learning.”

“I never said that.”

“Are you calling her a liar?”

not. It was

I fail to see the use in learning more.” She quoted the very words I had spoken. “When I was little, I had so many questions–why did strange things always happen to me? I asked myself, why me? But as I

through the signs

light speaks, but no one knows the exact language she uses. I shows me, but the Encounter is only a few months away. You’re learning

in a whisper. She rose from her chair and joined me on the bed. Her

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to trouble yourself with someone so unremarkable. I doubt she’s worth your attention.” Trian

a smile broke across her lips. “If I didn’t know better, I would say you are trying to protect her.” Empress Julia said.

better.” He responded. I had never seen a soldier fearless enough to speak directly to the like she was just another woman.

Empress

you suggest I do with this rare

do have an idea.” Trian answered, giving her an intense look, and in that moment, I wished to be in Julia’s position; I wished to have his

me. “This is not yet over.” She said, “You will have a new guard to watch over you for

new soldier; I wanted Trian, but of course I couldn’t say that out loud, not to her. I only nodded, and she walked