Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Tweiny Six

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Six

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Kaida had been given medication to help her recover faster watched her sleep, my mind drifted back to the moment she told me she was pregnant. Very few things took me by surprise, but the news did. The first emotion I felt was… hope. For a split second, I wondered if the healers had been wrong–if the wolfsbane hadn’t rendered me infertile after all. But then came the internal conflict–there was a big possibility that the child could belong to her former beta, Aric.

I should have told Kaida about my inability. I couldn’t believe I had never stopped to consider how she would feel about not having children. I mean, there was a chance, but only if I stopped consuming wolfsbane and allowed my body to heal from years of damage.

For years, I had taken daily doses of wolfsbane–a habit born from the day it nearly killed me. I had sworn then that I would never let that happen again.

I was fully aware of the fact that I was risking my life every day by taking the doses, but I couldn’t stop. Not now. It had become more than just a means of protection; wolfsbane had become an addiction. I couldn’t go a day without it.

***NINE YEARS AGO***

I was almost fourteen, yet I looked much older than most kids my age. More than that, I felt older. Maybe it was because I had already been named Alpha of the Nightshade Pack at such a young age, or perhaps it was simply that werewolves grew faster. By then, I already looked like a seventeen–year–old.

There was one more thing I had to come to terms with–I was being watched. Everyone had their eyes on me, and I knew it. They watched to see my next move, waiting for the moment I would make a childish mistake that would lead to my downfall. It was suffocating, almost intoxicating, to stay in my own home–a place that no longer felt like home. Ever since my parents left, I had felt like a stranger in my own pack.

I was well aware of the tight–lipped smiles the commanders gave as they bowed to me–they didn’t believe I was old enough to command their respect. Everywhere I went, I had to keep up a facade, hiding my true self from a world of devourers waiting just beyond my door.

They were all hypocrites–even the one who pretended to love me the most. Yet somehow, I endured each day, and little by little, I was proving myself to be a true leader. But everything changed on the fateful day

I stepped into my room and saw the woman on my bed.

I thought she had the looks of an angel. She had beautiful long gold hair that went down to her waist; she seemed to be around the age of nineteen or twenty. I didn’t know how she got into my room, but somehow, she did, and now she lay on the bed, completely naked.

I had been with three women before her, but none of them were as appealing as the woman lying naked on my bed, she was a seductress in every sense of the word.

take my eyes off her

had an exotic voice; everything about her was

do you want?” I

your bed, naked. We both know why I am here and what exactly I want.” She said to

should have been wiser, I should have

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she said–all the beautiful lies she whispered with

done, she usually left. But on the fifth day, to my surprise, she stayed. The maid brought food, and the gold haired girl sat beside me. I didn’t know her name and I never bothered to ask.

I nodded, and she joined me; the smile on her face melted

to her, and she paused eating, the smile

She said with some effort, more blood gushed down her nose, “You are nothing but a weak little

hands were cutting off her breath. She died right before my eyes, leaving me in complete shock. It

I tried to rise, but dizziness forced me back down.

everywhere; my werewolf senses

the other three were high–ranking members of the pack, people who had served under my parents. Now they approached me with silver daggers in

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their silver daggers into me, one

left me lying on the floor in

the pieces fell into place, I realized the girl had given her life to ensure my death. And yet, I couldn’t help but wonder–what price had they offered her to make such a sacrifice worth it? Or had she done this willingly? Perhaps she truly believed she was saving the pack by killing me–because in her eyes, I wasn’t

had never been so afraid and alone; I could literally feel the life slip out of me. “Mom.” I called out, choking on my own blood, but there was no response. This was it; they both left me to face the monsters alone, and now those very same monsters

carried me to the healing room. My pack members‘ stares followed me—some filled with curiosity, others with excitement. Some looked

told you all–he is not fit to be our Alpha,” Commander Jack muttered under his breath. But if I could

stabbed five times, but yet, many stared at me with disappointment as if I

be so vulnerable ever again.