The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0005

Neah

“I... don’t know what Blood of Wolfsbane is?” I whisper

He frowns at me. “Your brother said you knew the difference between plants.” “I...” I didn't have an answer. I couldn’t remember, not fully.

“Blood of Wolfsbane is Wolfsbane fed by our blood. The leaves will have a red hue to them. I can’t imagine a child would know what it is because it is not freely grown. Your brother’s story doesn't add up.”

“Oh.

“I won't stop until I find out who did this, Neah.” His crimson eyes narrow. “I will make them pay for the suffering you have endured.” He sits on the edge of his desk, studying me. “Right now, you do need to see someone about the infection.

I kept my mouth closed, I was still trying to process his news of me being set up. Why had my brother never considered it? “Come. I will show you our bedroom. You can shower before we see the pack doctor.”

Frozen to the spot, I don’t move. Did he just say ‘our bedroom,’? As in, we are sharing a bedroom? I guess he thinks he can have sex with me whenever he wants if I'm his contract bride. A shiver runs down my spine at the thought.

Glancing up, I see him watching me. He is stood at the open door, waiting for me. Ensuring my dress has me covered, I step out into the hallway. No one was around and the hallways were quiet.

As we moved, Alpha Dane would tell me what each room was, but he seemed more focussed on getting me to the bedroom

His bedroom is huge, with massive windows, just like the rest of the house. The bed sat pressed up against the wall. All around it. thin drapes hung from the ceiling, but they were tied back at each bed post.

What surprised me the most was that the bath and the shower were in the same room. Only the toilet was in a small room to the side of the shower. No privacy, whatsoever. Though, he didn't seem to care about that.

He makes me jump when I feel his warm breath on my skin. “You don’t need to be afraid. I may not be able to smell him, but he would be able to scent the changes in my emotions.

Crossing the room, he pulls open the glass door to the shower and turns it on. The moment he closes the door, the steam of the shower quickly fogs up the glass. And still, I find myself afraid. He gave me no clue as to what he was expecting from me.

“Hey,” His rough fingers tip my face up. “It's just you and me and for now, I will let you shower in peace.”

Walking away, he pulls his phone out of his pocket and messes around with it before placing it on the bedside table. “The alarm is set for ten minutes. I will come back then. I will bring you something to wear so just stay in the towel. Understand?

I just nod. Aten minute shower. I was lucky if I got a minute shower back home and the water

he looks back

kind of fantasy land and this was all a dream. Maybe

myself. And my hair has never felt so clean. The wound on my

their throat and I freeze. Thanking the steam

you done? The alarm went off five minutes ago.” Alpha Dane’s voice seems louder in

the freedom of a simple shower that I hadn't even heard the alarm or the Alpha come back into the room. “Coming.”

removed from the floor. Alpha Dane sits on

A matching navy blue sweatshirt and joggers. “You will have to make do

tug the sweatshirt over my head before removing the towel. Maybe he was used to the women parading themselves in front of him, or throwing themselves at him because he has power, but I

him. Something told me that if I didn’t get this wound looked at, it would put him in a bad mood. The pack doctor was young, unlike the one back home who was old and afraid to let anyone

and rewraps her dark hair into a bun. “Raven, this is Neah.” Alpha Dane

Dane, what seems to be the problem apart

hurtful comment like I was used to, but more a comment of

tell you herself

a wound.”

are not healing?” Raven

It was

Wolf was bound when she was a kid.” Alpha Dane tells her. “That's why her scent is strange. Her Wolf is there, locked away, waiting to be freed.” My eyes flicker up only to find him staring straight back at me. I had always believed that my Wolf was gone. Not that she

eyes hover on me. “Wow, okay.” She grabs my hand. “This way, let’s take

me into an empty room and asks me to lay on the bed and to show her my

widen, a flicker of rage passing over them as she takes in the infected

carefully press around the wound. “How long

days.” I mutter, though I wasn’t sure. Every beating blurred into another one. Any day

head. “This is longer than a few days

us the truth.” Alpha

‘I don’t know.

my eyes, fearing his anger. Anger brought

don’t know. The beatings, they happen so often that they just kind of....