Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

Chapter One Hundred And Twenty Two

I had prepared exactly what I would say to Thane but the moment he walked in, all I had rehearsed for hours was completely forgotten.

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His brown hair fell over his amber eyes and that's all I could think about, how beautiful his

were. I couldn't lose him, not just because he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen my whole life, but because I had fallen so in love with this man that I didn't think I could live without him. "Riley," he calls.

"Welcome back, Thane."

"You seemed to be a bit lost checking me out," he mused with a smile before walking to me. "I got you something."

"Oh" I said in response; he took out the box and pulled it open, and it was a golden bracelet with emerald and blue flowery designs.

'I could only think about you when I saw this," he says, taking my hands and securing the bracelet around my wrist, No doubt it was pure gold; it looked so beautiful and very costly too. "Thane, I can't take this." I said even if I would very much love to. "Riley, don't turn this down," he warns.

"I'm sorry, I just thought it was a bit too much."

"For you, nothing is too much."

I stared at the jewellery; it was the most beautiful piece I had ever seen. "Thank you, love it."

"You are welcome; I'm glad you like it.

"Thane I... wanted to talk to you," I said to him as he shrugged off his jacket.

"I'm listening"

"I was wondering; how would you feel about having a sister."

"A baby sister?" he questioned. I had his full attention now."

"Yes," I said silently.

Thane. I

"I have always wanted that. Riley, if this is about having kids-well, I won't refer to my daughter as a baby sister, but if this is what you are heading at, then I am totally fine with it."

"Really?" I find myself asking and almost straying from my point.

"Yes, is this where you were heading?" he asked,

"Yes... No. That's not what I wanted to talk to you about," I said and if I didn't know better, I would think he was a bit disappointed. It felt harder now. "I went to my mother's today" 1 began, my eyes watered. "She told me something, a truth that I wish I never knew about. You know that my mother and your father had been...

"Riley stop"

"You have to hear me out."

"You could never be my sister Riley."

He had picked on faster than I had; maybe he too had suspicions.

"Thane I'm sorry. There was something I didn't tell you. When your father... abducted me, had this feeling that he knew, but I didn't want to believe it. My mother had been pregnant with me before she left this pack."

I

Thane stared at me, his looked mad. "But you look nothing like him; you look nothing like me, and with the Alpha Blood in you...

"I know, I thought about all those too, but I believe my mother was saying the truth." "And she has to tell you this truth now? Doesn't that sound a bit suspicious?" "Thane. I told my mother about the contract. She had been so worried, and I was trying to assure her that we would leave this place soon. But I never did inform her when things changed; she didn't tell me anything about who my father was because she thought she wouldn't have to," I explained.

"She doesn't want me with you, not after what my father did to her, right?"

"What she wants doesn't matter right now. This is all about us.'

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Thane gaze on me was so hard, I fidgeted. "I could never see you as my sister after all we have done, all I made you do."

"Neither can I. It doesn't have to matter; we could move on because I would never stop loving you, and I would never see you as a brother either, but the man I love."

I advanced slowly till I was flush against Thane; He leaned over so Leould reach him, and I kissed him. Those lips, his touch-they were not all brotherly, and suddenly he let go of me. I drew him so I could kiss him more, but he wouldn't budge.

"I can't," he says, and those two words shattered me.

"What do you mean by you can't?"

"Thinking about you naked feels so wrong. This is not okay."

"Thane,

"But you love me; I love you too; that's all that matters," I say, but Thane says nothing in

as he walks away. I wouldn't let him walk away this time; / blocked his path.

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Chapter One Hundred And Twenty Two

please don't do this; I am crazy over you and I..." broke into tears, and Thane's eyes softened.

"I'm sorry, please don't cry, Riley," he said, easily lifting me up like I weigh nothing.

"You can't leave me, Thane; I do not care what anyone says; I am your Luna and Queen, more than that, I am your mate; and nothing would ever change that."