Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 87

Chapter Eighty Seven 

I had doubts… I hadn’t believed my mother was capable; this had been the same woman I lived with all my life, but here I was in her apartment. And now I think maybe I was very wrong; maybe I just never knew who my mother truly was; she might have hidden that part so well from me. 

“You were away for a few days. Where did you go” I asked, my gaze burning into her. 

“I do not have to report to you; I am your mother, and I have the right to be wherever I want to be.” 

“A messenger was sent from the New Blood Pack Thane had assembled soldiers to search for the offender. I can only help you if you talk to me.” I said to her. 

I could see the fight in her eyes die 

away. 

“I had been so close,” she says, and I shouldn’t be surprised, yet I was because I hoped she wasn’t involved; I hope it was just a mere coincidence, and maybe that had always been my problem… I hoped a lot. 

“I don’t believe you; how did you do all that?” I asked staring at her, she was strong for a woman in her late thirties, she had only been a teenager when she had me. 

“I had some help,” she admits. 

“Who?” 

“That I cannot tell you.” 

“Do you think I’ll expose you to Thane? Do you think I am one of them now?” 

“No. It is safer for you this way; you don’t have to know anything. You came looking for answers, and you got it. I didn’t do all that on my own.” 

“Why? Mother, why did you throw all of these away? You were finally free; why did you choose to do this?” 

“You have no idea how many times I had prayed to get a chance at freedom just so I could get back at ‘him‘. You thought I dreamt of freedom, but that wasn’t just it. If I wanted freedom, I wanted it only for one reason, and that was to watch Alpha Slatle of the New Blood Pack die very slowly. I had been so close, and then… I failed, and I might never have this chance again; I had lost.” 

My mother was in tears. She had told me about her past, though I suspected she had kept most of it to herself. Slade took away all her childhood memories and tarnished it; he had taken so much from her and… I couldn’t even bring myself to be angry at her. He deserved to die. 

My only worry was the fact that she had been caught. I had no doubt Thane would find her if I did nothing about it. 

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Chapter Eighty Seven 

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“You will have to leave this pack; I’ll make a plan I said to her. I had no one to meet; my only option was Beatrix; she had betrayed me once, but if I promised her she would never have to see my face again… Maybe we could escape; she was in love with Thane, and she would have me out of her way. Of course there was a huge chance she would turn us over, but I had to believe she saw me as a threat; that was the only way we could escape. 

I hadn’t seen Axel in a while, but I didn’t think he would help me against Thane. Yes, he had gone against the Alpha more than once, but his was different. The bond they share was so strong, I had to remember that Axel had sacrificed so much for Thane; if that wasn’t love,” then what was? 

“No, Riley, don’t try helping me.” 

“How could you ask me to do nothing?” 

“Because I love you.” 

“I’ll get you out of here.” 

‘Riley, listen to me. I know I haven’t been the best mother; I know there are many things I did wrong, and I was selfish for not thinking about you, but you were always on my mind. I knew that you 

had also been so close to leaving me too; I knew about the bathtub… incident,” she says, tears flowing down her eyes. 

“How did you know?” I asked horrified; she shouldn’t know about this; I knew for a fact that neither Thane nor Axel informed her. 

“I overheard them. Just when I was snooping around to get all the information I needed to penetrate into the New Blood Pack. Thane seemed to be sorry; that had been the only reason I didn’t go for him first.” 

“It wasn’t his fault, that was all on me.” I confessed 

“I should never have told you about my past; I should have known it was too much for you to bear.” 

“Mom, please don’t take the blame on yourself, this is my fault, my mistake.” 

“It had so saddened me. I was going to make them both pay… for everything they did to us, but I failed.” 

“No, you didn’t; you tried your best, and you are far from being a failure.” I say to her, I couldn’t admit to her what I felt for Thane, she would hate me, I didn’t want him hurt in any way, but she couldn’t know that.