Chapter Ten

I passed the signed document back to him, but his eyes, they never left me.

“Do you know the severity of the contract you just signed?” he asked, the smirk stretching along his lips again. I could hear Ryker’s words in my head ‘you wouldn’t last two weeks with him’, I could remember the panicked look in my mother’s eyes when he proclaimed me as his mate, never had she looked so afraid, not even when I was mated to Ryker – that should be enough to tell me that something was very wrong with this alpha sitting before me, and maybe his whole pack too, but no, I was willing to do anything – to escape my past, even if it meant running head first into danger.

“Yes, I know” I answered but I lied, I was yet to understand the severity of what I had just done.

Alpha Thane rose to his feet and it took everything in me to sit there and not bolt out of the ‘office’, he walked towards me.

“What are you doing?”

“Afraid?” he asked and I wanted to say ‘no’, I opened my mouth but no reply came forth. He