Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 267

Chapter Eight 

Chapter Eight 

ISABELLA’S POV 

I had spent my days wondering if I made the wrong choice. 

Everything had changed the moment I saw him for the first time; his image had been etched into my mind. I couldn’t stop thinking about him, and slowly I was falling in love with my very own imaginations of him. 

I wanted to see him one more time, and yet I knew I couldn’t. 

The sun was high in the sky when I returned to the place I called home. I walked in, and only then did I realize I wasn’t alone. 

The man from the woods had found my little home, and that means I could no longer stay here. I had wanted to keep this place a secret, and now… It wasn’t anymore. 

“How did you find me?” I questioned, because despite my anger, I still wanted to hear him speak; there was something alluring about his voice. 

“This is the only building around; it would make sense that you live here,” he said. 

“You aren’t giving up, are you?” 

“No. No, I am not.” 

“What do you want?” 

“Everything,” he says, he was confident. I liked that and at the same time didn’t. 

“Well, since you’ve let yourself in, you might as well make yourself comfortable.” I said to him, but he didn’t make any move to take a seat. 

“I have questions for you, and I won’t leave till I get my answers.” He said to me, the intensity of his gaze caused me to look away. I was no omega, but I could recognize power when I saw it. 

“I might not have answers to every one of your questions.” I say to him, and he walks closer to me, I back away. He paused, noticing how uncomfortable his closeness made me, and so he gave me some space. 

You said you didn’t feel the mate bond; I don’t think you were being honest.” 

“I wasn’t. I lied because I can’t be with you. 

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Chapter Eight 

“Why?” 

“That’s a question I cannot answer. 

“I will provide for you; I will give you everything you’ve wanted, everything you’ve ever needed,” he promises, and I almost belleve he could. 

“No, you can’t. I do not want vanity; what I truly want, you cannot give. I cannot be with you, not because you are not good–looking enough.” I paused; he was 

extremely good–looking, drop–dead gorgeous, with the body of a Greek god, but all that could never be mine. 

“Where are your parents?” he asked, but I gave no response. “Bella, come with me; come back to my pack with me, and I will prove it to you; I will show you that I can make you happy.” 

His promises felt so enticing, it felt so… right. 

“I don’t want to be in your pack. I had left my own pack behind, my family too, all to be here and I can’t even make this place my home anymore, not after you’ve discovered it.” 

“You are leaving?” he asked. 

“Yes, I have to.” 

“Where are you going?” 

“That’s the point; you aren’t supposed to know.” 

“What exactly are you running away from?” He questioned; those eyes seemed to pierce through my very soul. I felt bare in his presence.