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 He looked exhausted and withdrawn, not anything like how I imagined.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.

same as what I did, that Jenson

weak. Jenson isn’t allowing enough time for the bones to heal. Almost

into?” I ask, overwhelmed

wide. “This is me, sis. I don’t know who you are talking

you. This isn’t even a shell of you. You are not

mate just showed

just some whore that you attached yourself to

“Jealous?”

Jenson. I will always care about you, because you are my twin. But jealousy? You are on another fucking planet if you think I’m jealous! Do you not

“No.”

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

means that

“She’s my mate.”

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

I don’t agree with her? I went to her and she agreed to

“With what?” Mallory mutters.

and she pretends to

Jenson muses. “It’s mental

hell is it okay for you, but

his dark eyes at me.