Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Nine

Riley's blue eyes were just like mine-that was the only thing I'd gotten from her. The rest was all my father.

Her skin was pale-paler than snow, the kind of ghostly pale I'd only imagined. Her white dress clung to her body as if it were wet. I couldn't speak. I was frozen.

"Ethan, you need to return to your pack. There's a war"

I let out a bitter laugh, the shock finally wearing off. "You can't be serious, Mother. You finally show up after all these years, and that's the first thing you say? No 'How are you?' No 'How did you manage to stay alive? You know, those kinds of basic questions?"

"I don't have time."

"I get it; you are indeed very busy. Perhaps we should start with, 'Where the hell have you been all these years?"

was a danger to the pack-to everyone

everyone is either trying to help me

the truth. The only reason Thane lived long enough to raise you, even for those few years, was because the Moon

didn't bother asking about the 'cave'-Even though I had no idea what she was talking about. But if her time was limited, I needed to discover the

gone against fate to save his life. I cannot explain it

But I felt nothing. She was

was cold, and only then did I realize I was

is where it all began." She whispered to

in the cave with

to my father's heart. Thane wasn't giving up, his hands gripping the weapon, trying to keep it

didn't even

only shook

but this incident happened a long time ago. There's nothing you can do about it,"