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.”

that

humans are like with their addictions. It was the equivalent of me being addicted to

say. “Oh.” “Not what you expected to hear?

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

herself against me. “You need to stop assuming

her face up toe mine. Inhaling her delicious scent. I could claim her right here, but something tells me she would prefer us to be alone, away from prying eyes. I

get to make her permanently mine

a squeal.o of pain almost biting my lip. Her fingers dig jato my sides as she squéezes hereyes shut. Content belongs

mumbles when the pain

saying sorry for something my

lie down.” she mutters with a scowl.

the crutches. I watch her hobble

arms folded across her chest

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