The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0243

Mallory

Neah hasn’t said anything for about five minutes. Her silence makes me more nervous than when she is talking.

I pour myself another cup of tea and slowly take a biscuit from the plate. No sudden movements, that was my best bet. Or maybe she didn’t believe a single word I said. I really hope that wasn’t the case. It had taken a lot to reveal my history. Only Damien knew what I had told her.

I nibble on the biscuit, watching her. Her eyes weren’t black. Another good sign I hoped, but then again, they hadn’t changed colour when she tortured Roan.

Another few minutes pass and the panic is really sinking in. This was it. I am going to die.

“Okay.”

“Huh?”

“One chance.” The words are slow to trickle from her tongue but she said the thing I least expected. I guess I was more certain than I thought that she was actually going to kill me.

“Sure.” I nod my head frantically. For years I had felt in control of my own life until I had come here. But I never truly was while my past played havoc with my head.

“I can’t promise that I will find your presence easy.” She furrows her brow, unsure that she had made the right choice. “But I will try as long as you don’t fuck me over.”

"Yes Alpha."

eyes. A warning from her Lycan

had been so against the idea of Damien sending me here with Dane and his brother. It was the very last place on Earth that I wanted to be. But in my heart I knew what I had to do. She is the Alpha

seat. But she still looks as though she has the weight of the world

track her down.” I murmur. “I saw the car, the registration plate. I can find

brows knit together and she sucks

be beneficial to know where she is hiding. Maybe I can do

shoot

are

hesitates and lifts her eyes to meet mine. “You can’t tell anyone,

whiff, he will be on to me. Sometimes, he knew

the handle. “Thank you for answering my questions.” She leaves without looking back and

afternoon, I take my mug and head out to sit on the stone porch. My heart no longer felt so tightly wound up, but I still had to be careful. There was still a chance that Neah could decide I wasn’t

with Dorothy skipping along beside him. She is a cracking kid, but just like the rest of us, she came with her own

hips as she reaches me. “Mallory.” She beams as she

it go?” Damien eyes me as though he was expecting the

“Okay.”

a brow at

questions and I

“Everything?”