Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and One

I could tell she wasn’t sleeping–something was on her mind.

“You asked me once if I believed in you,” she began, and I turned to her.

“I remember that,” I said. I could never forget her words: ‘I will always believe in you–even when others don’t, even when you don’t believe in yourself,‘ she had said.

“Now I want you to do something for me; it might be too much to ask.”

“What is it?” I questioned, there was only little I wouldn’t do for her, if only she knew that.

“I want you to believe in me too. I want you to trust that I’ll make the right decisions.”

I stared at her, wondering what she wasn’t telling me, before I could question her; she spoke on, perhaps to change the topic. “How did the meeting with your grandparents go?”

a lot to say; he believes my ‘ability‘ is somehow tied to my stepbrother, Daemon.” I paused, realizing Kaida

name. My father told me about the demon who switched faces–how

me

somehow dethroned Vox and is now the Demon Overlord.

how does he know all

he saw it all in a vision,” I explained, noticing a trace of doubt in her eyes–that was exactly how I felt

you believe him?”

to believe. But that is the only explanation I would ever get, so I’d be

you think Daemon is

think I should send a message to the Empresses of Aureonna; they believe it is their life’s purpose to end the Overlord for good. This news would give them a cause worth dying for,” I said mockingly. “No!” Kaida burst out, and for a moment, I thought she sounded panicked. “I–I mean, why should you go to them? They came here, and we turned them down. Don’t you think they would

say to them? That the Overlord is back and you got that off some old man’s visions–no offense, but you need some kind of proof,

right; I needed concrete proof, and I did shoo them away when they visited, I’m sure Empress Julia

and the Demon Overlord and get some

can’t sleep.” She said, “I just have a lot on