Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty One

It felt like good things weren't destined to happen to me. I hated my mother more than I had ever done my whole life because she had told me a truth that I didn't want to hear.

Why did she have to tell me?

That was the question echoing over and over in my mind.

I couldn't think of Thane as a brother, not after all we shared and all that happened between us. I had to be strong; no one was to see me in tears, so I had escaped to a more secluded space, a dressing room of some kind; there was no one in here, so I could cry my heart out.

I felt like I had lost something dire to me, even if he was still there. This was what she wanted; she wanted to separate me from the only man I truly wanted.

I would never let that happen. I had told myself that I would fight for what Thane and I had, and 'this' wouldn't change it.

But then being with him could feel so... wrong.

Someone walked in.

"I need some quiet time; leave now," I ordered, backing the door.

"It's me Riley" Axel says and I turn to face him. I couldn't control the tears. "What happened? Who hurt you?" He asked, very ready to beat-up someone.

""Is not that?" I manage to say.

"Then what is it?"

"Could you shut the door?"

Axel shut the door before walking to me. "Riley, please tell me what is going on."

"My mother, she is the problem."

"Is she hurt?"

"No," I paused. I didn't know how to tell this to him or if it was alright to share it. "You know those times the truth hurts so bad, you wish you never discovered it?"

"Yes," Axel answers, and for some reasons, I felt like he alone could understand me.

"My mother sent a letter to me earlier this morning, and she said she wanted to speak to me; of course I had gone to meet her, and she started with some talk about her past..." Again I paused, unable to speak on. "Riley, please speak to me; there is no way I can help you if I don't know how to." He says, and I nod.

"She told me Slade was my father. She said she left this pack pregnant with Slade's child, and she hadn't told me the truth all these while because she thought what I had with Thane would come to an end soon, and... She knows about the contract too; I am so sorry, and I know I shouldn't have told her, but I needed someone to talk to, and she wanted to leave this place so badly, I had to assure her that I didn't plan on staying either," I explained. I couldn't have Thane finding out about any of this.

"Riley it is alright," he assures me.

"I changed my mind and I didn't tell her about it I didn't tell her what I felt for Thane or how I planned to be with him for the rest of my life, and I know it was so darn wrong of me, but I was in love with the son of the man who had hurt her so badly, I didn't know how to tell her. But she must have noticed it. She revealed the truth, Thane is my brother and this was the truth I never wanted to hear."

"And how do you know she didn't have things mixed up? You look nothing like Slade, no offense.

"Slade had said something to me when he abducted me, something about my father, and... I should have known what he was getting at.'

Axel let me cry in his arms. "I'm so sorry Riley, this is just as shocking to me as it is to you; it feels almost impossible," he says, and he was right; I was nothing like Slade; he was an Alpha; if he was indeed my father, then I should have had some kind of Alpha blood in me; I sheild have been stronger.

"I cannot tell Thane this... I don't want to lose him; I would never see him as a brother, but as the man I love." I declared.

"Riley. I believe in fate, and if you both are meant to be together, then there would always be a way, believe me."

"So, what do you think I do?, He should know about this, right? He has the right to know, and I shouldn't keep the truth away from him."

"Whether you choose to tell him or not, that is completely up to you; I would be with you in whatever decision you make," Axel said, and that meant everything. I needed someone by my side, now more than ever.

My only fear was that Thane would change after he discovers the truth. What if... he becomes a completely different person?

That was impossible, right? He had admitted he loved me; if he loved me, then he would fight for what we had, and nothing could come in between.

I made my decision; I was not going to hide anything from him.