Chapter One Hundred
All I wanted to do was get back to my room, but that seemed impossible.
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The news about me being kidnapped in my own pack had spread like wildfire; although many showed genuine concerns, there were still those few who were only looking for fresh rumours and juicy gossips to circulate.
“Luna,” son Called from behind me, and I had to school my face into a smile before I turned back. I anticipated another concerned pack member but I had been wrong. It was Jake.
Maybe I had forgiven him and let him go, but that didn’t make us friends, so what exactly gave him the right to come speak with me after what he had done?
“Stay away, Jake,” I warned before walking on, but he ran to my side.
“Please, I really need to speak with you…”
“Why? So you could tell me some shitty story about your life and deceive me? Not thank you,” I said, walking on.
“Please…”
“If you keep following me, I’ll have a change of heart and maybe place you in the dungeons where you belong.”
“I am not here for that… is just that,” he paused to know if anyone was hearing in on our conversation. “Can we go somewhere private?”
“Alone with you? Nice try darling”
“Okay. I just wanted to thank you… I don’t know why you did it, but… I hadn’t been thinking, I am so sorry for what I did, and my sister wouldn’t be happy with what I did. I had to talk to you and get it off my chest. I am so sorry, and if there is anything you would ever need me to do, I would do it…”
“Riley” Axel called; he had just taken a corner and met up with me.
“Axel,” I called out, a little too loudly, I felt like a kid caught with her hand in a candy jar. I hadn’t done anything wrong, but I should never even let Jake this so close to me.
“Get lost, Jake,” Axel ordered his voice cold and Jake bowed before hurrying away. We walked on in an unnerving silence.
“So… won’t you yell at me for letting him that close?”
“You already knew you were wrong; that wouldn’t be necessary, but you seem to be a danger magnet; you can’t even walk on your own,” he says. 1
“I can walk on my own; I knew I would be safe here.”
“You will be safer without him close to you.”
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“Why do you bother?” I said stubbornly
“Really Riley? You do know I would feel at rest if I knew you were keeping out of trouble”
“You are right; I’m sorry. He had just been telling me how sorry he was and how he was going to try to make it up.
“If he comes close to you again, then necessary theasures would be taken.” Axel promised, and 1 dare not ask what measures those would be. Axel stopped before our room.
“I have to head back now,” he says. “Or do you need me to walk you into the room too?”
“No, of course not. I’ll… see you soon.”
“Of course,” he said, a smile stretching against his lips.
I walked into the room and closed the door shut.
It took me only a few seconds to realize that something was wrong. I wasn’t alone.
“Beatrix,” I call. She stood there, in
our apartment. “You know what? This is it.”
She turned to me with red, swollen eyes and messy hair, coming to think of it, I hadn’t seen her in a while.
“I came here to speak to you; I’m sorry there was no other way to get to you.
“You are saying that justifies entering into my apartment without authorization?”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t come here to snoop through your things or anything… I just really need to talk to you.”
“I think I’ve had enough pack members checking on me; I really don’t need your support, and Thane will be informed about your visit,” I said, and her eyes widened.
“What I have to tell you is very important.”
“Very important? Just as you lied to me about those girls.? What is wrong with this pack?” I muttered the last part silently to myself.
“I know everything, okay! I know the truth; I know about the agreement,” she shoved a paper I hadn’t realized she was holding to me. “I will tell you a secret, only that you do one thing for me in exchange.”
How had she gotten access to a copy of the contract I had signed?
Even with the evidence at hand, I won’t give her the satisfaction of watching me admit the truth.
“So what? We made a deal, and now… the deal is off. I am with him as his mate.”
“Haven’t you wondered why he picked you?”
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Chapter One Hundred
“I have, and you see, I got my answer.”
“Yes, he had picked you because of your mother, but do you really think he intends on keeping you?”
“How would you know?” I asked casually, making myself at home on one of the armchairs. He hadn’t kept you when it got to your turn,” I said just to spite her, and from the look on her face, it worked.
too
“You bitch, you don’t realize that he is only using you; maybe he did have some interest in you, but it was never meant to last. He needs a mate to claim the title as Alpha King; that is the rule, he had to be mated. Picking someone from this pack would have made things obvious, I cannot understand why he had to go for you, but this is all he wanted. When the title is his… you are no longer necessary to him.“”
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