The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0227

He grins at me like a fucking idiot. “She’s found her beacon of light.”

‘Beacon of light?’ Aero quizzes

“What are you talking about?” I demand

Damien shakes his head at me,“She’s surrounded with a darkness that she is constantly fighting off. The darkness slowly crushes you. It takes over every inch of you when you are least expecting it.”

“While Neah fights it, there is no space for her to have the ability to be a strong and powerful Alpha. We can protect her, we can give her the tools to help her stay in control, but we can’t fight it for her. That’s something she has to do on her own. And she can only do that when she finds the thing that gives her hope. And it sounds like she has found it. She just doesn’t realise it.”

‘We didn’t give her hope?’ Aero sounds defeated. ‘We are her mate.’

don’t think that’s what he means.’ I mutter

be something else we can do for her, that I can

hover on me as

shitty feeling, watching my mate struggle and not being able to do anything

her staring into space. Her dark thoughts weighing

saying that the twins will be

make her really understand who she is. Raven is my light just as those pups are hers.” He gets to his feet. “This could be her turning point, Dane. This could be the thing that really puts her in power. She just needs to hold on to

I understood he had broken free of rogue life long before he met Raven. But the questions were not

at the end of the day, my priority will always be protecting Neah. Oh, and you can be the one to break

find Neah. It buys me some time, trying to decide what I should say, in the end I opt for the truth. Lying

front of the window of our bedroom. The twins are cuddled into each side of her as she reads them a story. I recognised the book too. It was one of the first that Klaus

flung across the