Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 281

Chapter Twenty Two 

THANE 

I remained in the garden. Maybe this hadn’t been the right time to tell her about Bella. 

She was right. 

While I didn’t love Bella anymore, I still cared, and it felt wrong. 

At that moment, I felt like something was wrong. It had been pure instincts but I felt the need to check up on Riley so I hurried back to the room we shared. 

She might need her space, but she was pregnant, and she needed company, just in case anything happened… 

She wasn’t in the room. 

I moved to the bathroom, and there I saw the blood on the tile. 

Damn. 

I had been heading to the healers when I met Daisy halfway there. 

“What’s wrong?” 

“The Luna is in labor.” 

That’s all it took, and I was sprinting to the healing room. 

Riley had been placed on the bed; sweat coated her face – maybe it was tears. I walked to her holding her hands in mine. 

“You are going to be fine.” I assured her. 

“It’s not yet time; I don’t know why this is happening to me.” 

“We will get through this together, okay.” I said to her, and she nodded. 

I noticed her head had been wrapped with a bandage. I didn’t ask her about it; she was in enough stress, but from the bloodstains on the bathroom floor, it was clear that she might have tripped. 

“I’m sorry about all those things I said to you earlier in the garden.” 

“It’s okay; let’s not talk about that right now.” 

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Chapter Twenty Two 

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I kissed her knuckles. 

“I am so afraid, Thane; I don’t want anything to happen to the baby…” 

She gasped in pain. 

“Do something,” I said to the healers. 

“She’s expressing contractions; it’s normal.” 

“I don’t want her in pain.” 

At this point I didn’t care what they had to do. 

Daisy walked in. 

“Alpha, I need to speak to you.” 

“I’m not leaving her.” 

“It would only be a few minutes; she would be fine.” 

I followed her out, but all I could think about was Riley in that room, in pain, and I couldn’t do a damn thing about it. 

“Riley had a bit of an accident; we suspect she might have a slight concussion but that’s the least of our worries. I had to tell you this alone because I didn’t want to give her any more anxiety than she already has. But the Luna has only a fifty–fifty survival rate.” 

“She will survive.‘ 

There wasn’t just any other option; she had to. 

Daisy nodded. “I’ll advise you to wait outside; the healers might not be able to work under pressure.” 

“I need to be there with her.” 

“I wouldn’t advise that, Alpha; we are going to do our very best.” She promised. 

I waited outside, but it took everything in me to do that. I heard her cries.