Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 398

Chapter Sixteen 

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Chapter Sixteen 

I knew something was wrong the moment I set my eyes on the boy named Eli. 

Maybe it was because he seemed so… nervous. The car came to an abrupt stop before a tiny building that didn’t look anything like a romantic spot. My hands wrapped around the dagger I had carried along with me. 

Eli was quick to open the door and Cas walked out. 

“Wait!” I called out, but it was too late. There was a man behind her, he placed a brown rag to her nose and she immediately fell into his arms. She had been drugged. 

“Come, come. Child.” The man cooed, but I moved backwards. He let out a growl. Something about him didn’t feel right and I could finally place it, it was his scent, he didn’t scent like a wolf and yet he was one. 

A rogue. 

He was a rogue. 

The man reached out to pull me out, but I slashed at him with my dagger; I got him across the eyes, and he let out a snarl. More men appeared; there were about six of them. The other door was pulled open, and I had no place to hide. One of the men picked me out of the car; I lost the dagger and was left with no weapon. I fought him, the best I could, but he was strong. He tossed me to the floor and sent a kick to my rib. 

“You… said you just needed to ask them questions.” Eli stammered. 

“Yes, questions, that’s all we needed to ask.” One of them replied. 

I rose from the ground. “Let us go; if you want money, my father would pay you…” 

I never got to finish the sentence; the man slapped me. 

My father had never hit me before and maybe that was while the strike had felt so painful. I spit out a tooth. Blood poured down my nose, and half of my face seemed to have been set on fire. For a moment all I saw was white. 

The same brown clothing was placed on my nose. I fought even harder, but I couldn’t win, and soon I couldn’t even move a limb. 

Cas trusted me; she trusted me to protect her, and I failed. I let this happen because I wasn’t strong enough. 

I woke up in an unfamiliar room. I knew it was the very same building I had spotted through the car windows. My hands had been chained to the wall. Cas was already awake, tears streaming down her eyes, just like me, she was bound too, but with a rope which was clearly digging into her skin. 

“They’re both awake!” The man who must have been kept here to watch over us announced, and the other five barged in. 

I recognized the man with a slash across his eyes–I had inflicted that on him; the injury was bound to leave him blind in one eye and hopefully a scar too. He seemed to be the leader here, and I couldn’t help but imagine how much that would have been a bruise to his pride; a little girl had done that to him. 

Eli walked in last. I noticed his hands shook, he was afraid. Things weren’t going as he thought. My gaze found him, and hatred was all I felt for him; he had betrayed her. She loved him, and he betrayed her. What I couldn’t understand was why? 

She never did him any wrong; Cas was a girl loved by everyone she met. He was feeling guilty. I could tell that from the way his eyes kept flickering to Cas and then to me 

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