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 He looked exhausted and withdrawn, not anything like how I imagined.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 wasn’t in the right frame of mind. That something

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

into?” I ask, overwhelmed by sadness for

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

shell of you. You are not the brother I know and

“Maybe my mate just

whore that you attached yourself to and

“Jealous?”

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

“No.”

hadn’t paused to think over

really means that much

“She’s my mate.”

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

would you think I don’t agree with her? I went to her and she agreed to help me.”

“With what?” Mallory mutters.

her and she pretends to

that you act like she belongs in the pack.” Jenson muses. “It’s mental that you let them slip into our way

have marked a Lycan! Why the hell is it okay for

rolls his dark eyes at