Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

Chapter Two Hundred and Forty Nine

THANE'S POV

The door opened, and Caleb walked in, his hands up as if in surrender. My beta, Axel followed, a gun pointed to his head.

"Free him," Axel said.

Caleb walked to me, taking out the pipes.

"The chains too." Axel said, and I could tell Caleb was not going to do that.

Axel shot at his leg, but Caleb was strong-maybe even the strongest of all the elders. In the next second, Axel's gun was in his hands, and the table turned.

"Let him go,

Caleb; it's me you want." I warned.

"You are right." Caleb says, "But I want him dead too."

He shot at Axel. I growled, pulling at the chains; they burned my skin. He aimed for me next, pulling the trigger, but the gun was empty of bullets, and he tossed it to the ground.

"In every single room, I had planted a bomb; all I need to do is press the button, and everything would go 'boom'; everyone in this building would die, and I alone would be left. After a while, you will be forgotten, but for me, I'll take over from you; I will be known and feared all round the world."

Caleb pulled open a small secret cabinet and took out the 'Cursed Weapon'. He walked away with the weapon in his hands.

Axel crawled towards me, taking off the chain on my ankle. I broke through the rest.

The gun shot had got him on the chest, thankfully not his heart, I dug my fingers into the wound, taking out the bullet. "You will survive." I said to him even if I wasn't so sure of that. We need to go now."

"No, I need to go back for Riley; if this place goes off, she will die," he says, managing to rise

to his feet.

"And so would you; she is not who we thought she was.

"Go get Caleb, don't let him escape; I'll join you." Axel said before running off.

I spotted Caleb walking up the stairs, and I guess that led to an exit. I couldn't let him go. I scaled up the walls, dropping right in front of him. A swift kick sent him falling down the stairs, and before he could recover from that, I came at him unleashing a flurry of punches at him..

I felt a stab to my side, and my whole body seemed to freeze. I stared at the cursed weapon

Chapter Two Hundred and Forly Nine

now embedded in my abdomen.

I knew what this weapon does; it strips one of his wolves, but for the elders, it kills them. Caleb took a step back, but I wouldn't let him win; if I was going down, then he was coming with me.

He took out the remote and clicked on the button, and just then I heard the sounds of an explosion.

I pulled out the dagger from my side, and with my last breath, I stabbed it right through his heart. Even in death, the pure surprise on his face was satisfying. This would have been a win for him, but this changes everything. He disintegrated into nothing but ashes.

I dropped to the floor. My vision blurred; I could feel the heat of the fire; I watched the fire spread; I was going to die here, Axel was still in there, and... Riley.

I hated her. I hated her for everything she had done to me. Freya was dead, Axel, injured as he Was he might not have made it out either, and still, there was this part of me that hoped... I hoped she had at least made it out.

I wondered if it was worth it to her-every betrayal, every lie-was this what she had wanted? If this was it, then it would be very sad. I hoped she had a reason; I wondered if there was some kind of recompense waiting for her after everything because if there wasn't then it wouldn't make any sense. No, not one bit.