Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 189

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Nine 

**THANE’S POV 

“She is engaged Thane, she was moving on quite well, you need to let her go” Axel says and he was right, but we both knew I wouldn’t do that. I wasn’t going to screw things up the second time. She couldn’t even bear to look me in th eyes anymore, damn she was starving herself just to get back at me and it was working, I couldn’t eat either, not with the knowledge that she is down there, cold and starving. I should let her go, that was the easiest way, but it had taken everything in me to make that decision the last time and now, seeing her after two months, I knew I could never let her go, not ever again. 

“She is mine, my mate” I say, knowing well how stupid that sounded and already knowing what Axel would say next. 

“You did send her away, I hate to break it to you, but she doesn’t belong to you anymore, she is betrothed to another” he reminds me and I hated that reminder. 

If only he understood that I couldn’t imagine Riley with any other person, it took everything in me to sit here and not go haunt for the bastard who proposed to her, ‘the bastard who helped her heal’- the little voice in my head said and I shoved it away, but that was the truth. 

I had done my research, he must have been a member of the Raven Clan, that must have been where Riley had gone to. Of course finding her was never the issue, I had ears everywhere, but I had thought I could let her go and even when I discovered I couldn’t, I still didn’t go searching for her, I didn’t want to place any form of target on her back, she was unprotected and so I had to stay away. ‘Excuses‘ that’s what she’d called those, she wouldn’t believe a word I said, I couldn’t make her happy, it had only been days since she arrived and she had cried more than once. 

I couldn’t believe she had waited for me each day, how disappointed she must have felt when I didn’t turn up. I had thrown away the one good thing in my life and all for what? 

There was nothing to be gained. 

“I would make it up to her, things would return to how they had once been” I say and Axel stared at me like I had lost my mind and maybe I had, maybe all I could think about was the beauty in the dungeons, yes she did look starved but not a bit less beautiful. 

“How do you plan on doing that?” 

“I don’t know, but I don’t care what I would have to do” I say 

“You love her very much,” Axel says, as if just discovering that. 

“But I am not alone, am I?” I questioned. 

A knock on the door to my office broke our conversation. 

Axel strode to the door, pulling it open. 

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Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Nine 

Two soldiers walked in, they bowed. 

“Alpha, there is stranger on our lands, he demands to meet you” 

“To meet me? Who does he identify as?” 

“He says he is the leader of some Raven Clan” 

Well we’ve gotten our lover boy in search of his bethroted. I must say, Riley does have a thing for Alpha’s. 

“Send him in” 

“He is here for Riley isn’t he?” Axel asked after the soldiers had left. 

“Yes”