The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0174

She sucks her bottom lip between her teeth as her eyes narrow. “You could have easily killed him. But you didn’t. you even purposely missed his heart after he had hurt Raven.

“And that was an emotional mistake.” “Because a part of you hoped that your ald brother was still in there?"

I don’t answer because I don't need to. There was nothing more for me to say on the matter. I decide to change the topic. “Why don’t you want me to call you Alpha?”

“It's not just you, I don't like anyone calling me it.”

“But you use the term when needed, like when you were squaring up to Salem. And I heard that you used it to get the other Lycans to stop attacking Black Shadow.

A small crease appears on her brow. “I was made to call people by their status my whole life. If I didn't, I got punished. Even with Dane I still said it for a long time. It’s not something that I want to force people to call me. It makes me sound....”

“More powerful than the rest of us? Because we all know you are.

Her eyes flicker up to me. “It makes me sound like a power pissed asshole.”

makes me

position. Maybe it’s time for you to take back everything

why you are really here? To try

of something you have already been questioning. And I don’t need to convince you that you

haven't been

saw it in the way she

exactly am I supposed to be an Alpha

“You don't see it.”

“What?”

more.” I point to

shakes her head. “That is

You didn’t know that you were a Lycan. What if there + is more? What if there are some that broke away fromo Cassandra and

closing her eyes. When ‘she opens them again; > the blue is long gone and they are almogtblack. Raven had mentioned something about it being a sign that Néeah was talking to her

time. “Wouldn't it be better for the twins if there were more of their kind to

else. Turning