Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 165

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Five 

Is this how painless death fell like? 

Regret. That was the first emotion I felt, and then I forced my eyes open. 

I stare at the gun in my hands. 

I wasn’t dead. 

It hadn’t been Thane sweeping in to save me this time, the gun was out of bullets. 

I tossed the gun away with shaky hands. What the hell was wrong with me?I had wanted to give up, just like that, I could have died. If that gun did contain silver bullets, those bullets. would have gone through my skull, and then that would be the end. 

1 had given up. 

Ryker had put me through hell and back, never once did I stop fighting, but with Thane I had given up, all for what? 

For a man that didn’t see my worth? 

Something changed in me that instant. I rose from the bare ground and resumed packing. I had once thought about how expensive the jewelry Thane bought for me would be. I would find out soon because I was going to take each and everyone of them. I wiped my tears before walking out of my room. Thane waited outside, leaning against the wall. He inhaled deeply at the sight of me. Yeah, I looked like a complete wreck, but how I looked was the least of my 

concerns now. 

“You are right,” I said to him, still avoiding his eyes, afraid that the resolve I had built would shatter the moment I stared into those eyes. “I did a job well done and deserve my pay,” I said, snatching the cheque from his hands. I stared at the amount. That was a lot. 

A whole damn lot. 

I walked down the pack halls; members waited, watching. 

I should be embarrassed, but I wasn’t. I spotted Beatrix; she was being held by two soldiers, yet she struggled out of their grip to walk up to me. 

“You don’t need to be bothered,” she whispered to me. “I won’t be having him either, at least not in the dungeons where I would be spending a long time” she said with a chuckle that was filled with anger, but this time it wasn’t directed at me. I stared at the soldiers who awaited her. 

Thane was sending her to the dungeons, but what use was it? He wasn’t locking Beatrix up for my safety, maybe this was just another show of power after all this is what Thane was good 

1. at. 

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“I am not sorry for you,” I say truthfully to Beatrix, “But I never intended for this to happen.” 

I know. This is a change of event, one even I didn’t see coming” she says before letting the soldiers drag her away. 

I didn’t recognize many of my ‘watchers‘; they must have remained here after the party. 

I had the feeling even from the beginning; I knew something would go wrong, and I guess this 

was it. 

I was shocked to realize some members, with tears flowing down their eyes, they couldn’t. possibly be sorrowful over my departure. This had been what they wanted, right? They should be happy.