Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred And Fins Five

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Five

425 BOHUS

The bond was gone, leaving a void in my chest. But what I felt for him didn't change. Despite the fact that we were no longer mates, I still loved him. I was right-what we had was beyond the mate bond.

I had given up far too quickly, I realized. I wasn't willing to let him go just yet.

The crowd was gone by the time I returned to the healing room. I stood by the door of the room where Alexander had been kept, contemplating what to say. I could apologize again, but something told me it wouldn't be enough. He believed I could 'move on,' but he needed to see that I never would that I could never love another. My heart belonged to him, mate bond or not. Nothing had changed. And maybe, if he saw that, he would change his mind.

Taking a deep breath, I knocked on the door. No response. I lifted my hand to try again when the door creaked

open.

I pushed it fully open-only to find the bed empty.

to tell me he hadn't been gone for long. I walked into a healer on my way

is the Alpha?" I

clouded her eyes.

mean by 'gone'? He

wouldn't listen. He's gone, Luna, and...

long-l could catch up. I followed his scent deep into the woods, but then

scent had

my lips. “It

route and followed it; I wasn't going to give up;

hadn't found him or picked up another trail. With each

down in sheets. If there was any trail, I wouldn't be able to find it now. Still I couldn't go back; I had to find him He couldn't have left me. Maybe he was just angry... maybe he would return in a few days. But even as the thought crossed my mind, I knew I was only clinging to false hope. I still remembered his plea for me to set him free. He didn't want anything to do with

seen the log in my path and tripped, falling into a puddle of thick

might never be able to find him. He left no letter, nor did he bother with a goodbye. Maybe he knew that if he told me

1. go.

Someone called, but I couldn't place the voice-everything sounded off

he gasped. "We heard you ran off, but no one knew where you were. I was