Chapter Seventy Five
“Yes. It would only make me a creep if I told you that I know everything about you; I knew you would get to that” Thane explains
“My mother said something.” I paused. I didn’t want to say anything to annoy him, not now when he was finally ready to talk.
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“Go on,” he prompts.
“She says you want me here… as some kind of punishment for her running away,” I said, looking away from Thane.
“Do ‘you‘ think that’s why I want you here?” he questioned
“I don’t know; you’ve never given me any reason exactly, and her perspective seems quite logical.”
“After I took over as the Alpha, I ended the slave trades; now our captives have a choice. Do you know why?” he asked
“Why?”
“Because I never wanted another woman to be treated the way your mother was, ever again. Riley I’m not trying to get back at her.”
“I feel like a fool for blaming her; if only she told me earlier…” I trailed off, wiping the tears.” I know she would be disappointed if she knew the mistake I had been about to make.”
“Hush, Riley. Everyone makes mistakes, but I’ll rather you blame me for that. Seeing you in there… in the tub, I wondered what would have happened if I didn’t get to you fast enough; I would have lost you too,” he says, but my mind hangs on those two words, ‘you too‘. “And it would have been entirely my fault. Maybe then I’ll let your mother do with me as she pleases; after all, I had been the reason her child committed suicide. I never really thought it would get to that, but you have to promise me, Riley, that you will never do that to yourself again,” he says, and I nod.
“I won’t. I wasn’t thinking.”
“Promise me,” he says, and there’s a hint of desperation in his tone, and I wondered if all those emotions he let slip had been real and not a part of my hallucinations.
“I promise Thane.”
“Tell me something about you–something about you I don’t know.”
I didn’t think there was particularly anything interesting about my life; I was just an omega. My mother never talks about my father,” I say.
“That’ll possibly be because she doesn’t know who he is.” Thane commented, and he was right
-if she had been assaulted by so many people, then it could be any of them.
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Chapter Seventy Five
“Possibly… but strangely, I have this feeling that she does; she just never talks about it, and I would never push her.”
Something random pops up in my mind. Axel. He hadn’t used any protection, right? I didn’t remember him putting on a condom.
“What’s wrong”
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“Nothing,” I lied.
“Axel was protected; you don’t have to worry,” Thane says, and my eyes snap to him.
“I don’t believe in magic and stuff, but if I was told you were a mind reader, I wouldn’t doubt it.” 1
He chuckled at that. “I’m a very good observer, and the topic seems to have triggered it, so it only makes sense that’ll be where your mind went.”
“He is more careful than I am.”
“Is the thought of having his child that appalling?” he asks, and I couldn’t believe he had just asked that.
“I know you are a sicko and you are crazy too, but I wonder if that is still underrating you,” I stated.
He shrugged. “If you would like that and he would, then it would be fine with me.”
“I have not thought about a child yet,” I say. That would only make things complicated. If I have to leave in six months, I’ll always carry a part of… ‘them‘ with me.
“Riley. I was only humouring you,” he said with a smirk on his lips, and I couldn’t deny that I believed he was being serious; he was just that so hard to predict. “How did it feel like growing up without a father?” he asks, changing the topic.
“I sometimes watch others with their fathers, but I could never miss something I never had. I did wonder what it would be like, but I knew I was never going to be like the other children; I would never be privileged to get what they had, and with that mentality in there, I had to move on.”
“Keep going,” Thane said, and maybe, just maybe he was interested in my story.
