Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 168

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Eight 

It all felt like some kind of sick dream. 

“Ma’am, please, where would you like to go?” The driver asked; he had already taken us far past the pack borders. 

I had nowhere to go.. 

I turned to my mother. 

“A few more meters to your left,” she said to the driver, who nodded, following her command. 

I didn’t know much about places, but wasn’t that part inhabited by… humans? 

I didn’t ask any questions; I let her decide. I felt completely numb. 

After what felt like hours, the car came to a stop, and my mother helped me out. We took out the luggages, 

“Goodbye, Luna,” the driver said, and I nodded, unable to form any words. 

He drove off. 

This was real; this was happening; I might never see Thane ever again. 

“Where are we?” I asked my mother 

“Just come with me,” she said. 

The streets had been empty of people, but after a few minutes of walking, I spotted some humans; many of them watched us. 

The thing is that we could look very much like humans but still stand out; there was something about werewolves that would always be off–putting to humans. I spotted a little girl hiding behind her mother. I ignored them all and walked on. 

Finally, my mother came to a stop before a small building–a house, I believe. She pulled open the short passage gates before walking up the stairs; we stopped before a door. She knocked 

twice. 

Just then the door was pulled open, and there Freya stood, a wide smile on her face, one I had never seen before, but the moment she saw us, the smile faded into a frown. 

She didn’t invite us in, instead she walked out of the door, shutting it behind her. I would have been a bit embarrassed seeing her again, after discovering she was the author of 

my ‘favorite‘ book ‘Barbara’s Fantasies‘, but at this moment I couldn’t bring myself to care. 

“I knew I made a mistake telling you about this place,” she said, her words addressed to my mother. “What the hell are you doing here?” 

“I need your help.” 

“I cannot help you; now leave,” she sneered. 

“Freya, I have done you so many favors; I ask that you do this one thing for me.” 

“You have no right to ask anything of me; now leave the both of you and never return here.” 

“Mom, let’s go,” I said, already retreating. 

“The Alpha King had sent us away from his pack, my mother said before Freya could slam the door in her face. 

“What?” she asked, as if surprised. 

“At least let us in.” 

“Good grief. Come in, the both of you,” she says leaving the door wide open. I entered first, and my mother followed, slamming the door shut. 

I spotted a man in shorts; he was quite young, maybe in his early or mid–thirties; his hair was tousled, and from the robe Freya wrapped around her body, it was clear that we might have interrupted something. 

When Freya had told me she was going to go out there and find love, I believed she would keep very good distance from the Nightshade pack, but again, everyone else would think that, making her harder to trace. 

Freya kissed the man. “These are some old friends.” She informed him. 

“They are wolves too?” He asked, amused. He was clearly a human; he shouldn’t know about. this. I believe there was some law that stated that, but well, who cares? 

“Yes, they are,” Freya answered before turning to us. “He already knew the truth about us a long time ago,” she explained. 

“Do you need anything to drink?” she offered. 

“No, we are quite in a hurry,” mom says. 

“Good, because I want you gone as soon as possible.” She says, pouring herself a glass of wine. “I find it hard to believe that he sent you away,” she says, her gaze finding mine. “I did believe he had found the one,” she says. 

“I thought the same too,” I added absentmindedly. 

“He doesn’t deserve my daughter. I want a fresh start- for the both of us.”