Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Ninety One

I stared at the letter, tears streaming down my face. I read it over and over until every word was etched into my memory. My gaze fell to the date–it was written just weeks before his death. A sob escaped my lips, and I let it all out. I cried, my tears soaking the paper. Why hadn’t he told me? I would have understood, but he had kept it to himself.

‘I forgive you, Father. For everything.‘ I muttered.

I stared at the paper one last time, unable to shake the feeling that the final line didn’t belong. The words ‘Avenge me.‘ didn’t sound like my father’s, yet the handwriting was his. And maybe, just maybe, he truly believed I could do it.

“Kaida.” Aric’s familiar voice called. I had been too caught up in the letter to notice him approaching. Despite myself, a flicker of embarrassment crept in at how easy I had been snuck up on–I should have sensed his scent or heard his footsteps.

I had my back to him, and I quickly shoved the letter into my pocket, but there was no need; he had already seen it.

“Leave.” I said, but my voice shook.

“No.”

“I am your Luna, and I command you to leave.”

to me. “And I

to him, enraged. “You have no right

and then his eyes met mine. “What is in that letter, Kaida?”

your

first, but Aric was my father’s beta; he was the right person to see this. I pulled the letter from my pocket and handed it to him and he quickly

get

said he found it in the main pack house.‘

unable

took my mother and father, the woman who made me an orphan. She is out there, still drawing breath. I am going to find her and end her.” I promised before turning

for a moment

won’t?” I asked,

understand why you want to give your parents the justice they deserve, and not even I can stop you. Only one has that power to do

nodded. “He

doesn’t have to know; but the decision is yours to

me, or he would take the risk and go find the woman named Cynthia on his own.