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 He looked exhausted and withdrawn, not anything like how I imagined.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

the same as what I did, that Jenson

shifting has made him weak. Jenson isn’t allowing enough

has she turned you into?” I ask, overwhelmed by sadness for

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

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

again. “Maybe my mate just showed me who I’m supposed

your mate, Jenson. She is just some whore that you attached yourself to and she

“Jealous?”

But jealousy? You are

“No.”

me. He hadn’t hesitated. He hadn’t paused to think over his answer. It just tumbled

that

“She’s my mate.”

choose. A mate isn’t someone who forces us to do things that

I went to her and she agreed to help

“With what?” Mallory mutters.

her and she pretends to zip

in the pack.” Jenson muses. “It’s mental that you let them slip

marked a Lycan! Why the hell is it okay for you,

eyes at