Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty One
THANE.
“I won’t say I didn’t warn you,” Axel says.
“I was only trying to help; I didn’t know she would get so upset by it.”
“No one likes their mind messed with Thane.”
“The last thing I need now is your lectures, Axel,
“Maybe you should go find Riley, you have a lot of pleading to do.”
“Do you think she would forgive me” I questioned,
“Yes, she would. I mean, she did forgive you for letting her go, what offense would be greater than that?”
“I just keep messing things up when it comes to her.”
“And you will have to find a way to fix it, Alpha.
Of course I had to fix it, but there was even the more worrisome question, and that was, how the hell did she find out?
“I know what you are thinking.” Axel says, “I’m wondering the very same thing too. I mean, it doesn’t make sense that she discovered it all of a sudden.”
“Someone must have told her. No one else was here except you and me.
“Bailey would be a suspect,” Axel says.
“If she was still in the pack, yes. She was always snooping around, so she must have discovered the truth.”
“Well, with everything going on, it clearly can’t be Bailey.”
“Who else would want to drive a wedge between Riley and me?”
“Unfortunately, you’ve broken a lot of hearts, so the list would be really long.”
“Then we’ll filter; not everyone has the balls to reveal this to Riley.”
“That’s correct. This sounds like something Beatrix would have done. I mean, she was working with Bailey; perhaps the elder told her something…” Axel trailed off. “No. It can’t be her either, right?”
“I left her back in Eldrida; she wouldn’t come back here; she just can’t risk it.“–
That leaves us… just where we started, “Axel says.
“Maybe it has to do with her being ‘turned‘ and everything; guess the Alpha ‘thingy-“I
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smirked; that was what Riley called it, “-Isn’t very effective with her anymore.”
“True,” Axel agreed. “Maybe her mind never did let it go, and with her wolf now dormant, it makes a lot of sense.”
“What?” I questioned.“Her wolf is dormant? When did that happen?”
“I was going to take her for a run some days ago, and she couldn’t transform; she said she doesn’t feel it in there anymore, and she seems so sure, this other ‘part‘ of her had gotten more dominant, and that had left her wolf side dormant.” Axel explained.
“And why am I just hearing about this now?” I asked; of course I didn’t appreciate Axel keeping this away from me, and maybe a part of me was jealous that he knew this before I did. It was stupid to feel that way, but I couldn’t help it.
“There had been so much happening, and it kind of skipped my mind; I thought Riley told you. about it.” That’s another thing to worry about; she should’ve told me. “Thane, are you… jealous?”
“Shut up.”
Axel laughed right in my face; sometimes I wonder why I haven’t killed him yet. “You’ve been keeping a lot of secrets; it’s nice you get a taste of your own dose.”
“Yeah, laugh it all out, Axel, and when you are done, go join the patrolling soldiers; you will spend your night there.”
He only laughed louder..
I left him behind in the office, heading back to the room I shared with Riley, I had some questions for her, but first, an apology for messing with her mind was in order.
I paused in front of the door. I hadn’t stopped to think about how Riley would be feeling right now; to her, she just killed Jake, and nothing I said to her would change her mind. I was going to be there for her, that’s what I should have done instead of making her forget. I pulled open the door, and then I noticed something very wrong. She wasn’t in here, and from the looks of things, she hadn’t been here for awhile now.
