The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0215

“And he stopped you because he is trying to protect you. I still don’t understand the purpose of her visit.” Raven scrunches up her face. “She came alone. She told you she hasn’t seen my brother in months.”

“Dane doesn’t believe that?”

She cocks her brow. “He doesn’t?”

Shaking my head, I sigh, I wasn’t supposed to tell her that. “He is certain he could smell him on her.” Again, I had been too caught up in the ever seeping darkness to take notice of anything but my apparent half sister.

The world could have been imploding around me and I would have been oblivious.

She pauses to let my words sink in and then carries on as though I never mentioned him. “Just turning up to tell you your father allegedly had an affair, I call bullshit. Damien saw her like six months ago. She was in the city. It wouldn’t have been hard to find our location, even if my dipshit brother is helping her. So why has she waited all this time?”

“Your guess is as good as mine.”

*****

Dorothy is playing peek-a-boo with the boys. Their giggles turn into hysterical laughter as she pops up from under their high chairs. She had this amazing way with them and loved to make them laugh. Damien said she had a need to feel wanted. Something I understood too well.

She never talked about what happened to her to anyone other than Damien. If someone walked in when she was mid chatting, she would stop immediately. I was happy that she had a safe person.

where I wondered if I would have turned out like her if I had been saved after my parents death

mutters. “Please

“I’m just playing Daddy.”

much as you want when you have

the twins as she settles on a chair at the

asks while putting pancakes on Dorothy’s

nod, because if I let out how I really feel, I was scared that

Raven takes the kids to go get cleaned up and dressed for the

around the kitchen clearing up. “How did

and slowly turns back to me. “I’m assuming you are

and sits

first it felt

last

you how it is, Neah. There is no point in lying. You talk about the darkness and that’s exactly what happens. It creeps in, sticking

will be little flashes of it and it’s always there, tightly

glass. I’m sure right now,

late. When it finally happens, you feel free. Everything becomes easier. Life makes

was once freeing becomes the very bane of your existence. You have to fight it, Neah. You have to be the Alpha you are supposed to be