Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 231

Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty One 

THANE. 

“I won’t say I didn’t warn you,” Axel says. 

“I was only trying to help; I didn’t know she would get so upset by it.” 

“No one likes their mind messed with Thane.” 

“The last thing I need now is your lectures, Axel, 

“Maybe you should go find Riley, you have a lot of pleading to do.” 

“Do you think she would forgive me” I questioned, 

“Yes, she would. I mean, she did forgive you for letting her go, what offense would be greater than that?” 

“I just keep messing things up when it comes to her.” 

“And you will have to find a way to fix it, Alpha. 

Of course I had to fix it, but there was even the more worrisome question, and that was, how the hell did she find out? 

“I know what you are thinking.” Axel says, “I’m wondering the very same thing too. I mean, it doesn’t make sense that she discovered it all of a sudden.” 

“Someone must have told her. No one else was here except you and me. 

“Bailey would be a suspect,” Axel says. 

“If she was still in the pack, yes. She was always snooping around, so she must have discovered the truth.” 

“Well, with everything going on, it clearly can’t be Bailey.” 

“Who else would want to drive a wedge between Riley and me?” 

“Unfortunately, you’ve broken a lot of hearts, so the list would be really long.” 

“Then we’ll filter; not everyone has the balls to reveal this to Riley.” 

“That’s correct. This sounds like something Beatrix would have done. I mean, she was working with Bailey; perhaps the elder told her something…” Axel trailed off. “No. It can’t be her either, right?” 

“I left her back in Eldrida; she wouldn’t come back here; she just can’t risk it.“– 

That leaves us… just where we started, “Axel says. 

“Maybe it has to do with her being ‘turned‘ and everything; guess the Alpha ‘thingy-“I 

Chapter Two Hundred and Thit One 

smirked; that was what Riley called it, “-Isn’t very effective with her anymore.” 

“True,” Axel agreed. “Maybe her mind never did let it go, and with her wolf now dormant, it makes a lot of sense.” 

“What?” I questioned.“Her wolf is dormant? When did that happen?”