The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0257

Raven

The way he spoke to me sounded so familiar. Midnight drops her guard too. It sounded just like the Jenson we know, the brother I loved. Not the mad man everyone is claiming him to be.

I hadn’t seen him since the day Jess was killed. When Damien saw him in the street, the idea of seeing him had been more than I could handle and I had fled to the car.

I still didn’t understand why he left the pack and I definitely didn’t understand why he had chosen her. The very thing he claimed he hated.

“Don’t.” I whisper, feeling my heart break all over again.

“Don’t what?” He speaks to me from the back of the cell. “Call you sister?”

I frown, looking at his tired and gaunt face. He had been handsome once. I mean all the ladies seemed to love him and he had no end of women hanging off his every word. But to me. He looked exhausted and withdrawn, not anything like how I imagined. A mate bond gave you strength, but from what I could see, it looked like his had been zapped.

I glance back at Mallory. She hadn’t said anything, exactly like I asked.

“Why did you bring her? Stupid bitch is the reason I’m here.” Jenson growls

Mallory rolls her eyes and I turn back to face my brother. “You know you are alive because of her and Dane. Dane brought you back here.”

“And chucked me in the dungeons. Though he looks like he has made some improvements since I was last down here.” He laughs. His thinning shoulders raise up and down with the deep sound.

I did, that Jenson wasn’t in the right frame of mind. That

weak.’ Midnight mutters. ‘The rapid shifting has made him weak. Jenson isn’t allowing enough time for the bones

she turned you into?” I ask, overwhelmed by

stretches his arms out wide. “This is me, sis. I don’t

of you.

mate just showed me who

is just some whore that

“Jealous?”

you? How can anyone be jealous of you, Jenson. I will always care about you, because you are my twin. But jealousy? You

“No.”

He hadn’t hesitated. He hadn’t paused to think over his answer. It just tumbled out like it

really means that

“She’s my mate.”

she isn’t. A mate isn’t someone we choose. A mate isn’t someone who forces us to do things that we don’t agree with.

with her? I went to her

“With what?” Mallory mutters.

glare at her and she

muses. “It’s

a Lycan! Why the hell is it

his dark eyes at