The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0082

Dane

I sit at her bedside, watching every little muscle twitch, willing Neah to open her eyes. She wasn't dead. I would have felt it if her soul had crossed over. Which meant the antidote had worked on some level, but what irreparable damage had the Blood of Wolfsand done? We wouldn't know until she woke.

Eric still hadn't linked me either and my patience was waning. It wasn't like him to go so long without checking in and when I tried speaking to him through mindlink, he cut me off without a single word

“You should get some rest.” Raven mutters from the doorway. “It’s almost midnight and you have the pack run ‘I’m not leaving her side.

"I can sit with her.”

"Like I said, I am not leaving her side."

She steps in and passes me a folded shirt, “At least change your top, you still have her blood on you.”

I glance down at my blood splattered shirt and agree that itis probably not what Neah would want to see when she wakes up. “You haven't said anything since you have been back, about Veronica.” Raven mumbles

“She's dead. That is all you need to know.”

“You hunted her, didn't you?”

me to let her final breath

one final glance and backs out of the

this.’ Aero

You and me both.’

for so long, but things keep slipping through. Dane. Important shit.” ‘Are you trying to tell me you saw this coming?’ I

No, of course not.’

I should have known that

something we couldn't prepare for.’ Raven did! She

he knew I was internally punishing myself and

little. LS Immediately grabbing her hand, talk to

lightly knocks on the door and frowns as he scans Neah. “Did you find it?” I ask without looking up “Yes, and there was plenty of

“What do you mean?”

a room full of them. Easily forty or fifty individual plants. She knew what-she was doing. Not only I were thereplants, she had waders,a thi ck jacket and gloves, one of those beekeeper hats. The girl knew.

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remains, including Veronica's

“What?”