Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 163

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Three 

There were gasps from every corner of the hall. 

“The woman standing before you was not chosen by the moon goddess but by me. I had chosen her because I thought she complimented me, but I was wrong,” he says, turning to me, a sick smirk on his face, and I… I was silenced by the shock I felt. “She is nothing like a queen should be, and I had made a mistake. A mistake I would correct tonight.” 

Thane’s smirk widened to a smile. 

“From today, Riley Kaidon seizes to be my Luna and Queen.” 

Ryker had left my heart bruised, but Thane had mended it up only to rip it apart, over and over and again. 

I felt like the wind had been zapped right out of me as the tears streamed down my eyes. 

Thane wasn’t moved by my tears; he never was, and he never would be. 

He made me love him, he made me fall for his petty lies, he made me hope, and then he shattered the glimmer of hope, leaving me a shell of the person I once was.‘ My mother had explained to me how Slade had broken her, and right before my eyes, Thane had done the very same thing, but he did it better. 

I felt Axel’s presence by my side. 

I didn’t know exactly how I got out of the hall, but I was back to Thane’s room. I felt… lost. It all didn’t make sense to me; my brain had lost the ability to process things, the pain had become too much, and I was completely numb. 

“How could he do this?” Axel repeated over and over to himself. I had never seen him this angry; I had never seen him this disappointed. 

“Riley,” he called, but I couldn’t form the words to respond. I should have responded, but I couldn’t. “Please say something, anything,” he pleaded. 

Just then the door pulled open and Thane walked in. 

“Thane,” I called out, but his gaze never met mine; it was like I wasn’t even there. “Why would you do this to me, Thane?” I questioned but got no answer. I rose, walked to him, and I fell on my 

knees. 

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It had all started with the ‘obsession‘, then the ‘desperation‘ I should have stopped it, I should have controlled my feelings, it was too late and now… now I was ready to be anything he wanted, so as long as he keeps me. 

“I would do anything,” I begged, taking off the straps of my dress. “Anything,” I repeated. 

Couldn’t he see that I had nobody?, I had nowhere to go?, Couldn’t he see that I had sacrificed every damn thing for him? How couldn’t he fucking see that?. 

1/3 

Chaute.” One Hundred and 5 xy, Three 

You have nothing to offer.” Thane said, without giving me a single glance, my cheeks reddened from the utter embarrassment. 

There was an angered roar from Axel. He pounced on Thane, so fast he was almost a blur. He slammed Thane into the wall and broke through 

“Axel, let go,” Thane says warningly, but the bet didn’t listen; his body shook in fury. Blood trickled down Thane’s face but his gaze remained fixed on Axel. “Stand down,” Thane growled at him; his eyes glowed; he was using his Alpha Aura, and Axel was fighting it, but he couldn’t overpower it; he gave up finally. Still snarling at Thane. 

They both shared a long stare. Thane was trying to tell him something through their bond, I realized, and finally Axel calmed. 

“This is fucked up, 

It made sense now. 

and it’s all on you,” Axel said before walking away. 

“I know why you are doing this. It’s because you think you are too dangerous for me, right? 

think I would be safer out there.” 

“You know nothing.” Thane sneered at me. 

“I do… I know what we shared; it cannot all be fake, I refuse to believe it.. 

“Are you hoping it wasn’t?” Thane questions. 

“It is not; I knew what I felt was true.” 

“But do you wonder if all this time, I had seen you as fun until you were not?” 

His words cut me deep, but I didn’t want to believe it. 

“I will always love you, monster or not. I told you this, Thane, we were going to make things work.”