The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0229

“Seriously?” He asks with a raised brow, bringing his fingers to his mouth to taste my juices that covered them.

“You have made it very clear that you want me to be your mate.” I mutter, pulling on a pair of workout leggings. “I’m not ready.”

Shit, wrong choice of words.

“Every day that you don’t let me claim you, we risk the chance of finding our actual mates. And then we won’t stand a chance. When will you be ready, Blair? Six months, a year, five years? You know we are good together.”

“Don’t push it!” I snarl through gritted teeth "And I've travelled the world, my mate doesn't exist!"

“Are you scared, is that what it is?”

I pause as I pull on my workout top. “Scared? You think I’m scared.”

“Something is holding you back!” He snaps at me. “Every moment that I think this is it. That I have found someone I can be with. You throw it back in my face.”

“Right, let's say you do mark me. What happens when I die? What I do doesn’t guarantee my life, Jenson? You could mark me and I could die tomorrow. Do you really want to lose another mate?”

know I was deflecting. But he wasn’t ready for the truth. I grab the yoga mat and strut towards

you going?”

Why did he always have to push?

buried six feet under if

I flick out the mat, he appears. His arms folded across his wide chest as he leans against the

you feel something that you’ve

and abruptly pull them over my head, silencing him, but it doesn’t make him

session, I rip the headphones off. “You think you

things. We enjoy each other and I know the very idea

“No it isn’t.”

me? I’m sure I can handle

“No.”

dips as he tries to think of another reasonable explanation. The sad thing was, he had missed all

hands in his. “I can handle it. Whatever it is.

up in knots, something I hadn’t felt since I was a kid. He was the only person to make me feel

put some clothes on.” I sigh. Someone would find out eventually. It might as well