The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0162

Damien

“Desire?” She whispers back to me, refusing to look away. “Yes.”

Her hands rest against my chest, a small crease forming between her eyebrows. “A desire for what?”

“To live.”

She glances down to her hand resting over my heart. It beated steadily under her touch. Yet her own heart starts to race and the wind catches in her hair, firing her scent in all directions.

“You were going to die?” She asks with a hint of concern “We all die eventually, Raven. What I mean, is that I had enough of the same shitty life. Eat, sleep, hunt. repeat. I had a desire to break free from it. Her eyes flicker back up to mine. "And Mallory helped you?"

“She did. She gave me a home. She became a friend and is now practically a sister. She reminded me that just because I became a beast. it didn’t mean I needed to live as one. She still reminds me.”

like that you

their addictions. It was

as she thinks of something to say. “Oh.” “Not what you expected to hear? “I didn’t know what to expect.” she murmurs. “This entire year has been full

away from me yet, but that may be because she knew she

presses herself against me. “You need

mine. Inhaling her delicious scent. I could claim her right here, but something tells me she would prefer us to

to make her

to my. place bet ‘she lets out a squeal.o of pain almost

mumbles when the

sorry for something my brother did to

down.” she mutters with a scowl. Her frustrations are

and waits for me to pick up the crutches. I watch her hobble off in the

arms folded across her

Do you need