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?"

a danger to the pack-to everyone around me. I was a threat to you. I couldn't let that

the word, "Seems like everyone is either trying to help me or protect me-like I've lost the ability to do either

reason Thane lived long enough to raise you, even for those few years, was because the Moon Goddess intervened.

'cave'-Even though I had no idea what she was talking about. But if her

I cannot explain it to you,

nothing.

flared, and suddenly, I was no longer in the bathroom. I was in a... cave. This must have been the very one she had spoken about. The air was cold, and only then did I realize I was wearing nothing but a towel-except, when I looked down, the towel was gone. In its place was a pair of washed-out blue jeans.

it all

were in the cave

The stranger held a blade to my father's heart. Thane wasn't giving up, his hands gripping the weapon, trying to keep it from driving any deeper. Blood seeped from his palms where the blade cut into his flesh. But it was clear-he was losing. The other man had the upper hand. It was only a matter of time before

even flinch. They couldn't see me. I turned to her, my jaw tightening. "We need to do something. He is going

only

look very realistic but this incident happened a long time