Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley) novel Chapter 52

Chapter Fifty Two 

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Axel let my mother in. 

If only he knew that she was the last person I needed. “I would give you both some space,” Axel said. 

“Are you 

here to give me some more lectures, mom? There’s nothing you say that would change the decision I had already made, so maybe you could make this easy for the both of us and leave,” I said to her even before she could say a thing. Maybe Axel hadn’t picked up on the info the last time; my mother had been a total… I couldn’t call her a bitch, but she had acted very much so, making me feel like I was a naive and ignorant child who couldn’t see that she was headed in the wrong direction. Yet she knew that all I did I did for her and for us. 

“Will you 

at least hear me out?” My mother asked 

“Depends on what you have to say, mother, if it’s along the lines of ‘he is too dangerous for you or your very favourite, ‘a life of slavery back in the Windborne pack is better than a life here‘, then I’m sorry–but not so sorry, I wouldn’t be interested in…” 

“I am here to apologize,” she says, cutting me off. “I had been so mad and angry at you, even if I knew you had no faultin it; I should have tried communicating with you better; I should have made you understand, but I had just expected you to know, and when you didn’t 

understand things from my perspective, I turned against you too. You aren’t at fault; life has put us in this situation.” 

“It is not a situation, mother; it is my life, and this is what it is going to look like for a while.” 

“There are things going on here–things you do not know about, things he is not willing to tell you…“I cut her off. 

man, 

“That’s because I do not care to know; I don’t need to know. I know Thane is not a very good. 

but he loves me.” I swallowed; I knew Thane didn’t love me, and so I lied. A part of me wondered if I would like this little lie to become a reality. I wasn’t a dreamer; I knew that would never happen. He shouldn’t love me, and I wasn’t to love him either. “That’s all that matters. What we share is more than you can ever comprehend. I might not be happy, but I am surely getting there. Don’t ruin this for me, mother; don’t ruin this little happiness I was finally privileged to have after all the pain I had suffered, you had told me once that I deserved. to be happy, this is as close as I could ever get to that.” 

“I did not mean to cause you pain. I love you, and you know it.” 

“I don’t. I don’t know if you love me anymore; if all this time I had been a fool, you could be like Ryker, but a better actress. 

“Do not compare me to the monster, Riley.” 

“The same monster you prefer me to go back with rather than stay here?” 

“This is not why I am here; I am here to apologize for everything. I know you had done all this 

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for me; you wanted us happy, and it is not your fault. I am sorry, Riley; please forgive me. 

“You lie, mother. You come here asking for my forgiveness, but at least try to make it look. real. I know you, mother, and I know you mean nothing of what you just said.” 

“I just want to have my daughter back.”