Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

hapter Twenty Six

There was this strange emotion in me. I couldn't let Axel know, so I did my best to think of everything but that Thane had spent the night with Beatrix, leaving me in my room all alone. I hated it. I had admired the girl when I first saw lier, but now, I felt the dislike brewing in

me.

"Are you okay?" Axel asked as we headed on our way to the woods.

"Yes" I lied.

"You aren't. You are jealous."

"You feel like you know everything, but you don"

"I don't know everything, but that I know"

"I should have expected that, it shouldn't surprise me, I hadn't 'satisfied' him, so perhaps he got that elsewhere"

"Don't blame it on yourself, is not your fault"

I nodded, shoving away that memory.

"How far are we going?' I asked when we arrived in the woods.

"Far enough"

"Axel" "Yes?"

"You do know I can't transform into my wolf form as often as you can, right?" I questioned. I wondered how I forgot to tell him this earlier- maybe I assumed that he would know. As omegas, we have weaker connections with our wolves, and transforming to our wolf form doesn't come as easily as it did to the others. I had only transformed into my wolf form three times in my entire life, the first when I was of age and it had been so painful, the second time after the meditation lessons I took, and the third. I couldn't remember what triggered it, but I remembered being so angry at everything-at life for making me this way, at the moon goddess, at my mother, and at the whole pack.

But a

after that, there had been no more, no matter how hard I tried, no matter how became:

angry I

"I know that. You won't be shifting; I'll be your ride." Axel.

He took off his shirt and then his pants next; he was only in his boxers. I had been watching him all this time. I couldn't help but notice how very comparable he was with Thane. I blushed.

"Sorry, I said, looking away.

"I don't mind."

He must have taken off the last plece of clothing

I peeped.

He was naked. Oh my.....

He caught me looking, and he chuckled at that he shifted into his wolf form.

The sound of his bones transforming was scary in some way, but finally there was silence. His wolf nudged me, and I turned. That must be one of the biggest wolves I had ever seen; his fur was brown and beautiful. I ran my hands through it, wondering how it would feel to have my wolf so close that I could transform whenever I chose to.

Axel went low, and I carefully climbed on, holding onto anything I could lay my hands on. He waited for me to get comfortable before he zipped into the forest. I felt the cool air against my face; my hair fell free of the lazy bun, spilling down my back, it truly was beautiful. Axel stopped abruptly, heading back. I was about to ask what was wrong, but then I remembered he couldn't answer that in his wolf form. We stopped at the same position where Axel had abandoned his clothes; he went low enough for me to climb down, and then he transformed back into his human form, naked again.

"My attention is needed," he explained to me as he put on his clothes, and I, on the other hand, was trying so hard to look at any other place, but at him, I slipped a few times and if he noticed that he said nothing.

I was back in my room. Alone. I missed Axel company-any company-and I missed my mother. I was going to go check on her, despite myself. I did hurt her, but what puzzled me was the coldness in her eyes. Even at the joining ritual, she had been there, but the longer she stayed in this pack, the more of a stranger she became.

The door to our room was pulled open as Thane walked in.

"I heard you had some fun with Axel?"noveldrama

"I heard you had some fun with

"Why do you think that?"

Beatrix." I said, and that gave him a pause.

"It's easy. I was at the training ground; she seemed very touchy," I said.

"Jealous? You shouldn't be."

'Never, I wasn't jealous, but as I am expected to keep to our contract, I thought you would have some restraints too; it just doesn't feel fair."

"What I do is none of your business, Riley."

Chapter Twenty

"But then you say I am your business? It doesn't work like that, Thane."