The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0011

Dane

“Did anyone have a clue?” I demand as I watch my sleeping mate. She was out cold and likely would be for some time. Raven had gone as far as stitching her up once she was certain the tie had been severed and Neah's body had been pumped full of drugs.

Someone's head is gaing to roll! Aero growls

“No.” Eric replies. “Surely if Neah was mated, she wouldn't have left Moonshine so easily.

“But she didn't though, did she?! She practically collapsed at the door.”

“I thought you said that was because she had never left? You said a combination of fear and illness.”

I turn around to see him leaning against the wall, studying me. He was the only one I had confided in, telling him what Aero had said about Neah being our mate.

“Maybe he was nearby.” He shrugs his shoulders at me as my eyes shift to my sister.

not draw attention to herself, but the silence told

out!” I snap at

Raven?’ Aero prowls around the back of my mind. I already knew he wanted to have

of this stupid fucking blood tie! A blood tie can only exist if she has a mate that is still alive.” “Okay, okay. You don’t need to go all Alpha on me. She

“Are you certain?

She nods her head.

“Did she accept?”

about

is telling the truth.” Eric mutters. He moves next to me and peers in through the window at Neah. “I'm more interested to know how she knew she

“What?”

said she was bound, right?” Eric

even thought about it. I had been too wrapped up in the blood tie news. “She shouldn't have been able to scent him.” I mutter, “How could

bedside, I watch her in silence, trying to choose the words Fwanted to say. There was a ot of information to unpack, though already

of the hospital, she looked a little better, her skin

me, telling me that she never meant to keep it a secret.and that she hadn't thought much of it. Because in her words, who creates a blood tie when they have rejected their mate. Which just

in the morning