NovelEnglishChapter One Hundred and Ninety Three
“Have you considered the possibility that Bailey masterminded all this?”
The moment | said it, everything seemed to click it does make sense. Bailey had brought the plan up, and when
they wouldn't go with it, she decided to take the lead.
“Bailey hasn't left the pack since the incident; | don’t think she is behind this,” Thane disagreed.
“Hearout. Bailey has every reason to hate you. Do you remember the deal you never kept your part to?, or
the fact that after | left she might have hoped you would finally make a move, but you didn’t.”
“She seems to have moved on Riley.”
“That might be what she wants you to think. Do you really think she could move on after everything‘? She did
sacrifice a lot, but of course that’s just a speculation.”
| noticed how close I've drawn to him, and | immediately pulled back, instantly missing his warmth.
“I'll keep a close eye on her,” he promised. “We can’t keep you hidden here forever, | wonder if you are ready to
officially meet the pack once again.”
| couldn’t help but recall the humiliation | faced right before them all, and how the pack would view my return -
as a desperate attempt to reclaim my place.
“Thane, this is not and would never be my home,” | reminded Thane.
“Riley, | didn’t mean anything | said back then, but that doesn’t excuse my actions. | hurt you and deserve every
last bit of the punishment, but | can’t let you go.”
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“Why Thane? Why do you want to bringback to the things | had tried so hard to forget? | cannot stay here;
my mother must be so worried.”
“Then she could clive here; it would all be like it once was,” he said softly, even if we both knew it would
never be that way ever again.
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“She would never cback here; she had always hated this place, and more than ever, she abhors it.”
“If you'd let me, | could talk to her; | could make her see reasons to stay here.”
“Is not just that” | said, staring down at my ring. “I made a deal with Nick. He had played his part, and it is my
turn to do mine.”
“Is that why you are marrying him, as part of a deal?”
“Yes, but more to that, he would never hurtas you did; | would always be good enough for him.”
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Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Three
“You were always good enough,” Thane declared but | shook my head slowly. “We're not in the scycle. You
know it; I know it, and everyoneelse does too.”
“What cycle do you speak about?” He questioned The look he gaveso intense, | couldn’t hold his stare; it
was so hard to look him in the eyes and know he wasn’t going to be mine.
“We are not meant to be, and maybe that’s why everything seemed to be against us all the time.”
“No, the fact that you are here makes it even more clearer.”
“I led the attack on your pack; | didn’t cback to see you.”
“Are you sure?” he asks. “You can’t deny a part of you had wanted to go against all odds; a part of you did want
to meetagain, even after everything.”
“And what if you are wrong?”
“I could be, but I am not. Riley is not too late; | know that. | am going to fight for you.”
“Again, you are wrong; it is too late. | would get married to Nick, and the faster you letgo, the easier it is for
the both of us. | promise you, you wouldn’t have to seeever again.”
Those words had finally broken through his hard interior; | could see the emotion, for the first time, very clearly
on his face.
“| can't force you; | wish | could, but |
can't. | would let you go, only if you
could tellto myface that Gol!
donitstiiseme, that you don't
dream abouteach night as | do of
you; tellto my face that your body
doesn't yearn foras mine does.”
This was it.
I could be free.
All'l had to do was say those words
to his face, and then | could go back
to Nick. We Pd oR arte hy
mayke hfe? Sh e, | would be a wife
to him in every sense of the word and
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Yet thinking about this future alone
filledwith dread. With Nick, There
had never been those sparks | gel
when | am with Fharelot Ae it was
cBiriplero Uitferent, He was a good
man, but | couldn't see myself falling
for him, and maybe all this while |
had subconsciously dreaded the day
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| would never be able to love him, not if Thane lives, and it was tto acknowledge that.
Thane waited for my response, and yet | couldn't say it.
“That's what | thought,” he whispered.
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