Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 268

Chapter Nine 

THANE 

I had been in my office when she walked in. 

The very same person I had done my best to avoid for the past few days. Isabella. 

“May I come in?” 

“You should have asked that before walking in.” 

She arched her brow. “I’m sorry. 

“You aren’t supposed to be here.” 

“I know.” 

“No, you don’t; this place is off limits for you, got it?” 

She stood silent for a few seconds before nodding. I was being a jerk; I knew it, but I hated how my mind still vividly remembered her. 

“I should leave,” she said, and I got a glimpse of her tear–filled eyes; that didn’t exactly move me, still…. 

“What do you want?” I asked. 

“Nothing, I just… wanted to tell you thank you for all your help; I appreciate it. Who knows what could have happened to me out there.” 

I didn’t have a response for that. 

She turned to leave. 

“You look a lot like someone I used to know.” I said to her; she stilled, her back to me. “Her name was Bella, which is indeed strange as you both also have similar names. Do you perhaps have any older sisters?” I asked. 

“None that I can remember,” she said, but there was something about her tone that told me she wasn’t exactly being truthful. “Remember I lost my memories…” 

I cut her off. 

“I don’t buy that. You look so much like her for all I know, you could be her, so where exactly are you coming from?“! 

“I told you, 

I lost my memories, I don’t know.” 

Chapter Nine 

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“Look at me.” I said to her, but she didn’t.” say, look at me.” 

Finally she did, her eyes wide and fearful. “It seems to me that you know more than you are letting on. I don’t trust you, Isabella I would be watching you. I expect you to leave as soon as the healers are done helping you restore your ‘lost memories.” 

“You know, you don’t have to be a dick to me. I’m sorry that I look like someone you know, but what I cannot understand is why you seem so disgusted by my very presence.” 

Not everyone could speak to me in that manner, and go scot–free and yet I was letting this go. 

“I apologize.” 

She nods before leaving the office. 

Why should I care who she was or why she looked like my deceased mate? Maybe it was time I moved on; Bella, 

dead; I didn’t know who this lady was, but my mate 

had died; I felt it, and now I have Riley; I didn’t need anyone else. 

“You are very loyal to your luna.” A voice called, and I turned to see Slade leaning against the wall. 

“You’re even more pestering than you were when you were alive.” 

“Well, I have no one to bother, no pack to rule–you stole that from me and no mate. It is safe to say, ‘You are all I’ve got.” 

“I didn’t steal from you; the pack members were willing to join my pack, and so I let them.” 

“You know, you don’t have to feel guilty about wanting her.” He says. I knew who exactly he was referring to, he was only trying to get a reaction out of me. Of course I didn’t ‘want‘ her. 

“You can say that, you toyed with a lot of hearts and see where that landed you? You got killed by your own mate.” 

“Freya, the bitch. I do still love her, even with the knowledge that she is the reason. I… died.”