Chapter Seventy Seven
Chapter Seventy Seven
“I had planned to cover up the trails when we were done, and this time she wouldn’t be found by my father. I was ready to die protecting her even if she didn’t deserve it. We agreed to meet by midnight; Slade would be gone by then. I had a few soldiers loyal to me and not to my father by then.
But when I got there, I met Slade waiting in her stead. She had betrayed me again; she had told him about the plan just to get on his good side. She never once stepped in, never once helped; she was grateful to have him furious at someone else rather than her. If only she knew that Slade will never forgive her infidelity and she still pays for it. I had sworn that day to never step in or try to save her; she did make it clear that she did not want to be saved.
My father couldn’t control me anymore; I rebelled against every single thing he did, and he hated me for that. That’s the reason the pack had to be split into two; he wouldn’t let go of power even when his reign was over, and I wouldn’t let him have what rightfully belongs to me.” Thane finished, 1
There was a lot of questions on my mind, but when I opened my mouth on the two words came out; “I’m sorry”
“For what? None of this is your fault, so you don’t have to be sorry.”
“I judged you; even though I knew nothing, I still judged you.”
“I am not a good person; I should still feel some kind of sympathy for her, but I can’t help it; I just don’t feel it.”
“No one would feel sympathy for a traitor,” I say.
“You sure?” he asked with a smirk. My mother would never betray me, but if… if she had been put in place of Freya, if she had betrayed me again and again, would I have let suffer for her sins?… no, no, I would not have done that. I would have kept trying, die trying. When I said nothing, Thane’s smirk widened into a smile.
“If you had grown up in a loving home with parents that are not at each other’s throats or at yours, then maybe you would have been different,” I say to myself, realizing then that I said it out loud.
“That was never meant to be, and I’m not sure if I deserve that.”
“Everyone deserved to be loved Thane,” I say to him.
“You pity me. I do not like it,” Thane says.
“I pity you, and I’m sorry,” I admitted. “But don’t you want to be loved?”
“Love without trust is nothing, and trust is hard to come by.”
“But you could trust me, Thane.”
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Chapter Seventy Seven
Chapter Seventy Seven
“I had planned to cover up the trails when we were done, and this time she wouldn’t be found by my father. I was ready to die protecting her even if she didn’t deserve it. We agreed to meet by midnight; Slade would be gone by then. I had a few soldiers loyal to me and not to my father by then.
But when I got there, I met Slade waiting in her stead. She had betrayed me again; she had told him about the plan just to get on his good side. She never once stepped in, never once helped; she was grateful to have him furious at someone else rather than her. If only she knew that Slade will never forgive her infidelity and she still pays for it. I had sworn that day to never step in or try to save her; she did make it clear that she did not want to be saved.
My father couldn’t control me anymore; I rebelled against every single thing he did, and he hated me for that. That’s the reason the pack had to be split into two; he wouldn’t let go of power even when his reign was over, and I wouldn’t let him have what rightfully belongs to me.” Thane finished,
There was a lot of questions on my mind, but when I opened my mouth on the two words came out; “I’m sorry”
“For what? None of this is your fault, so you don’t have to be sorry.‘
“I judged you; even though I knew nothing, I still judged you.”
“I am not a good person; I should still feel some kind of sympathy for her, but I can’t help it; I just don’t feel it.”
“No one would feel sympathy for a traitor,” I say.
“You sure?” he asked with a smirk. My mother would never betray me, but if… if she had been put in place of Freya, if she had betrayed me again and again, would I have let suffer for her sins?… no, no, I would not have done that. I would have kept trying, die trying. When I said nothing, Thane’s smirk widened into a smile.
“If you had grown up in a loving home with parents that are not at each other’s throats or at yours, then maybe you would have been different,” I say to myself, realizing then that I said it out loud.
“That was never meant to be, and I’m not sure if I deserve that.”
“Everyone deserved to be loved Thane,” I say to him.
“You pity me. I do not like it,” Thane says.
“I pity you, and I’m sorry,” I admitted. “But don’t you want to be loved?”
“Love without trust is nothing, and trust is hard to come by.”
“But you could trust me, Thane.”
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Chapter Seventy Seven
Thane stared at me, finally realizing what I was saying.
“I love you, Thane,” I say, and every part of me doesn’t want to hear him reject my words. I knew even from the start what I felt for him, but I had been so afraid to say it. Even through all the pain he had put me through, I still loved him, and I knew that loving a man like him was dangerous, I’ll be damned. I also knew that I still felt ‘something‘ for Axel, something I couldn’t really explain.
“Say something, Thane… please.”
“I don’t want to hurt you anymore than I already have.”
“You won’t”
“You don’t know that.‘
“Please don’t reject me, Thane,” I pleaded.
Pathetic. That’s what I have become, pleading for love. That’s how desperate I was.
Thane held me in for an embrace, kissing the top of my hair. “I would never,” he promised. ” What of the contract?” he questioned
“Maybe you could end all those restrictions. I won’t be going anywhere, not that I have anywhere to go.”
“That could be arranged,” he says.
“Thank you”
“Riley. You are very special to me. I’ll try to make this work,” he says, but I don’t miss the fact that he never said the words. ‘I love you too‘.
