Chapter Seventy One

"I don't need his money, Riley," my mother says.

"I know, but we need to start up afresh, and so we need this; after it is all over, I promise you we will leave and never return."

"Why you?" she questions.

"I don't know...."

"There are so many females; he is an Alpha, the most known; any she-wolf would want him; why did he pick you, and what is he going to gain from this? Because I don't think your companion for six months is all he wants," my mother says, hatred in her eyes.

"I've asked, but I don't know what he gains from this either, but we shouldn't care about that; we would be gone soon."

"I know why he picked you," mother says.

"You do?"

"Yes. It's some kind of payback. I ran away from this pack many years ago as a... sex slave, and my daughter is taken for the same purpose."

"I am not a sex slave!," I say, lying through my teeth.

"Tell me he hadn't bedded you more than once? This is what he wants; they want to ruin us, and it started with me," she says.

I stood silent, because