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Chapter Forty One
RILEY
“I will fix this, Riley, but | need more time.’
“No, do
you know what you are going to do? You will send Isabella away; things would go on just as they used to.”
“I can’t do that. I still need her. Next full moon, there is every possibility that | would lose control. | don’t want
anyone hurt, so until | figure out a way to get through this without her, she has to stay.”
“You love her, don’t you?”
“Riley, I...”
“Don’t lie to me; you've always loved her.
Earlier you were absent from the pack; where had you been Thane?” | asked him; his silence toldall | needed
to know.
“I was back at Bella's cottage; | had visited her grave just to be sure.”
“Just to be sure Isabella was really ‘bella’, right?”
“Yes.”
“And she is the very sone, isn't she?”
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“You want to know the truth? Yes, | care about Isabella; the fact that she had been dead for years doesn’t stop
stopped loving you.”
“So you expectto be what? okay with this?”
“No, | don’t have the right to ask that of you, but this is the truth you wanted from me.”
Isabella had been there to help him; could it be a coincidence? | didn’t think so, but she had toldearlier that
it would be just a matter of tand the bond would grow stronger; she must have already known this would
happen.
“You can’t have us both, Thane.”
“It's you | want.”
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“You keep saying that, but she is your fated mate. | see history repeating itself; it has been Ryker, and now... it’s
you.”
“I'm nothing like him; I will find a solution to this.” He walked to me. “I'm sorry | left. | am proud of you, Riley. |
never did think you had it in you. But you should know that no one is unkillable, even the elders could die. | will
find a way, and this is my promise to you, Riley.”
A knock on the door interrupted us. “I guess they've found the bodies.” | said to him.
| shut the balcony door, even if | knew that wouldn't hinder Daemon from coming in; | still needed that false
sense of security. | held onto the gun Thane had given me. He had toldto leave the main door open; this way
he could hear if anything went wrong.
There were so many thoughts on my mind.
Thane had marked her. | wonder if she was satisfied now, knowing the claim she had over him. | hated it; | hated
all of it, and yet, she couldn't be sent away because she was still of ‘use.’
And then | thought of Daemon; |
should have known it wasn't Thane; it
had felt different, [y gnasane
elven ion the condom
either; Thane would never hurt me
during sex the way Daemon did, and
yet | never did complain because a
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Worse, | shot him twelve times,
snapped his neck, and threw him
over the railing Justip frpke sorelhe
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hoi did survive: [os would be
furious, and by now | knew | was no
longer in his good graces; if he found
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| stared at my wrist; they had only begun healing, and | was sure Thane had seen this. | hated myself for being
this so easy.
Thane returned as quickly as he could. “Maybe it's t| take you everywhere | go.” Thane suggested.
| remembered when | had attempted
that with Bailey, she only needed to
kill two of the pack Tdmbdrs to get
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