NovelEnglishChapter One Hundred and Sixty Five
Is this how painless death fell like?
Regret. That was the first emotion I felt, and then | forced my eyes open.
| stare at the gun in my hands.
| wasn’t dead.
It hadn't been Thane sweeping in to savethis time, the gun was out of bullets.
| tossed the gun away with shaky hands. What the hell was wrong with me?! had wanted to give up, just like that,
| could have died. If that gun did contain silver bullets, those bullets. would have gone through my skull, and
then that would be the end.
1 had given up.
Ryker had putthrough hell and back, never once did I stop fighting, but with Thane I had given up, all for
what?
For a man that didn’t see my worth?
Something changed inthat instant. | rose from the bare ground and resumed packing. | had once thought
about how expensive the jewelry Thane bought forwould be. | would find out soon because | was going to
take each and everyone of them. | wiped my tears before walking out of my room. Thane waited outside, leaning
against the wall. He inhaled deeply at the sight of me. Yeah, | looked like a complete wreck, but how I looked was
the least of my
concerns now.
“You are right,” | said to him, still avoiding his eyes, afraid that the resolve | had built would shatter the moment |
stared into those eyes. “I did a job well done and deserve my pay,” | said, snatching the cheque from his hands. |
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtstared at the amount. That was a lot.
A whole damn lot.
| walked down the pack halls; members waited, watching.
| should be embarrassed, but | wasn’t. | spotted Beatrix; she was being held by two soldiers, yet she struggled
out of their grip to walk up to me.
“You don’t need to be bothered,” she whispered to me. “I won't be having him either, at least not in the
dungeons where | would be spending a long time” she said with a chuckle that was filled with anger, but this
tit wasn't directed at me. | stared at the soldiers who awaited her.
Thane was sending her to the dungeons, but what use was it? He wasn’t locking Beatrix up for my safety, maybe
this was just another show of power after all this is what Thane was good
IL. Fit,
“l am not sorry for you,” | say truthfully to Beatrix, “But | never intended for this to happen.”
| know. This is a change of event, one even I didn’t see coming” she says before letting the soldiers drag her
away.
| didn’t recognize many of my ‘watchers’; they must have remained here after the party.
I had the feeling even from the beginning; | knew something would go wrong, and I guess this
was it.
| was shocked to realize smembers, with tears flowing down their eyes, they couldn't. possibly be sorrowful
over my departure. This had been what they wanted, right? They should be happy.
| tuned them all out.
“Riley,” a woman called out, pushing through the crowd; it was my... mother. The tears felt harder to hold back
now, but | wouldn't cry.
| knew what was coming next; she
was going to remindhow much
of a fool | had been; she was going to
remindof her warnings and how
she always knew this from the start,
and, ASKS she-wdliibe'so damn
right)\Eve {ingle thing she said,
every tshe tried to warn me, and |
didn't listen because | thought | knew
better, now | could finally see that
she was right; she was always trying
to protectfrom this; she was
trying to protect my most delicate
part, and that was my heart. | made
her look like a sicko, | distanced her,
and yet... after everything she had
said had finally cto pass, it was
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| didn't mind listening to anything she
had to say now; | deserved it all. |
expected a look of diseppointrhent
op her k&)blt what | saw in those
eyes wasn't disappointment but pain.
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She hadn't said any of what |
expected to hear; instead, she
huggedfor a ver lena while This
cd hy. 8y) that | was
not alone; she was there; she was
one of the reasons | had to fight for
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“Do you really think | would let you go without me?” She questioned, and a small smile formed on my lips.
“Of course not.".
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