Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Forty Four

Chapter One Hundred and Forty Four

ALIYA'S POV

I dreamt about the lake, the very first place we'd shared a kiss; it had been one of the best days of my life. But too soon, the perfect dream was interrupted by another memory. I stood in front of the fortune teller's hut, the bones and skulls hanging from the door clacking together with an unsettling sound. The old woman sat in her hut with a smile on her face.

"Back so soon?" she asked.

"You were right... about his darkness, he is the-"

"Demon Overlord. Yes." She agreed, seemingly unsurprised. "I had never seen such an amount of darkness in anyone before."

"You were right about me too. You told me there would be a big change-I didn't believe you. But now I see. I fell in love, just as you said I would, and I was happy. But the pain you spoke of... I understand it now. He lied to me. I hate him for his lies, for deceiving me."

The old woman smiled. "No, you don't hate him. That's just a lie you tell yourself because you want to believe it."

"Fortune tellers are liars," I said, echoing Trian's words. "Maybe you did get all those things right, but it could have been pure luck. You don't know anything about me."

why I was taking my anger out on the poor woman, but it was too

your hands."

"Why?"

give you one more reading... I'll

kind to me after

grown familiar with-it was Daemon's

in front of the room where the human girls had been kept. Daemon was with the eldest of them-she seemed to be his favorite. His fangs were deep in her skin. I waited for the nausea to come, but it didn't. Watching

was almost like having sex. I hadn't understood it then, but as I watched the human girl moan, her neck tilted and exposed to him, I finally

couldn't pull my eyes away from

her position; I wanted to have

if the human girl could sense my presence, her eyes shot open, and she stared directly at me, a smirk curving on her

drenched in sweat-even though

still remember the

what I wanted the most, but she was wrong; I'd never wanted that. Shoving the dream into the back of my mind, I

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Daefhon cooking; it just didn't feel like something he should know how to do; he didn't seem like the one who'd be patient enough to learn the procedures. This

my presence even before he