Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Eighty Nine

Chapter Eighty Nine

Maybe I should have tried to know Haga better. I always thought it would be prying, but perhaps all he needed was someone willing to listen.

“That’s why you’d rather not answer the name Haga, isn’t it?”

“Yes, names, I believe, have a way of shaping a person’s future. My father knew that when he named me Hagaziel, so I’ll prefer to be called any other thing but that name.”

“You are a good person, even if he never cared to see it. The fact that you still attended his burial, despite everything he did to you, proves that.”

“He might have been a monster, but he was still my father.”

“You’ll always have a place here at the Nightshade pack – I hope you know that. I will make sure you are well taken care of.”

“I’d love that, but I won’t be staying.”

“Where would you go?”

I am now the Gamma of the Moon Valley pack. I knew my father would have abhorred the idea of it; he probably believed I would die and the title would be passed to my

Gamma now?” I asked, unable to hide my surprise. “I didn’t mean it like that,” I

I’m the first dwarf to ever hold this title. Many didn’t take the news well, but change is sometimes necessary–it only takes one person to break the cycle.” He said, turning

some kind of coded message to me. Finally he

“What is this?”

as soon as I returned, I visited his grave to say my last words to him. I also paid one last visit to the pack house–a place that had become my home. That’s where I found that.” he said, pointing to the envelope in my hands. “It’s a

the envelope; it felt so light and at the same time so… heavy.What had my

farewell to The Messenger, and he promises to keep in

miss thi better than the messenger, and still, he hadn’t spotted it. Perhaps he

house far supposed to be checking for.

room; I hadn’t told anyone about the message from my late father, and I hadn’t opened it either. I was nervous

normal self, and I was relieved to see he had moved past whatever had happened back in the dining hall.

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Chapter Eighty Nine

I said, feeling strangely nervous. He

call

was only an hour to midnight.