Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

Chapter

Thirty

I woke up with a smile on my face. I didn't know how long I had slept, but I hadn't felt this rested since I came here. I was alone on the bed; 's not like I expected him to stay.

I couldn't help but remember everything that had happened last night, and my lower kind of numb. I tried standing up.

That was a big mistake. I lay back down.

"You shouldn't try that." The voice called. I hadn't noticed Axel on the cushion.

"How long have you been here?"

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"A couple of hours," he says, and I didn't miss the fact that I was naked, with a lot of evidence of what I had just done with Thane. "You look totally fucked," he commented with a smirk, and I turned red. He did have a hidden ability to embarrass me. I pulled up the covers in an attempt to cover my nudity.

"I'm not trying to humiliate you, Riley, but there's literally no part of you I haven't seen yet."

"I think you and Thane are freaks," I say, and I do mean it, but I abandoned the covers. He was right, though. "Where is he?"

"He's gone. I think he feels guilty, and that is very strange."

"Why?"

"He did hurt you, and that's why he called for me to stay here with you for a while."

"How did you know that?, he told you?"

"I did tell you about the bond I share with him. I can feel his emotions."

"And

you think he feels guilty?"

"I don't think; I know."

Something went through my mind. "You could feel every one of his emotions?" I questioned

"The stronger ones are easier to catch."

"Like..."

"I feel his happiness, his wants, his desires." Axel explained

""You felt it last night."

"Yes," he answered, his eyes staring at me intently. I had remembered when he told me not to worry about Thane's whereabouts; Thane had been with Beatrix then. I did wonder how he knew that; I thought it had only been a suspicion but now I knew while; he felt it; even as he tarried with me, seeming indifferent, he knew.

Chapter Thirty

A very random memory flashed through my mind. I also recurred that night, after Thane had marked me, he had lost control, almost taking me there, but Axel stopped It, and before he left, he had said the words, 'I'm sorry', It hadn't occurred to me that he might be apologizing for what he was about to do with Beatrix.

Maybe it was my mind making up things; Thane could never apologize for such a thing; he had said it to me; who he fucked was none of my business, but he had promised to end it. I wondered if I had been good enough. I was no pro; I was no expert as he certainly was, and I believed Beatrix might be more skilled.

"How did it feel last night?"

"That might have been one of the best he ever had at least for as long as I could remember," Axel answered. He wasn't just saying that for my benefit. But I felt the same; even through the pain, that had also been one of the best sex I had ever had.

"I need to take a very long bath."

"I will go draw a bathe for you," he said before disappearing into the bathroom.

He returned a few minutes later.

"What are you doing?" I asked when he came closer.

"Still afraid?; I can't harm you."

"I know that."

"Do you really?. I doubt you can stand or walk; I'll have to carry you all the way there," he explained.

The thought of my naked skin against his body sent chills through me.

I nodded. He lifted me, like I weighed nothing, his hand resting around my back and the other below my... uhmm... ass. He took me into the bathroom and placed me gently in the warm water. The temperature was just perfect. "Thanks," I mutter, looking away. But, of course, he wasn't done. He was going to bathe me.

I had thought Thane was kidding when he said it was alright for me to be with Axel, only with the single condition that he would watch us, but now I wonder if he hadn't actually been kidding when he said that.

Axel did bathe me, careful not to go anywhere down there, but his hands had gone over my cleavages a few times, and soon it was over. He prepared a robe for me before helping me out of the tub. I felt a lot better now. While Thane and Axel were similar, Axel seemed to be the kindest of the pair, while Thane just couldn't care less about anything going on around him, but that didn't mean he wasn't very observant.

Chapter Thirty

I wondered if I could refer to Axel as a friend.noveldrama