The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0259

Dane.

“You see it too, right? I mean you have to. You are our older brother. You are his Alpha.” Raven is leaning on my desk, staring at me with her dark eyes while Damien has his hands on her hips, trying to calm her down.

“Which one do you think it is? It can’t be both. He can’t be trapped and trying to kill his Wolf’s spirit.”

“What if it is both?” Mallory mutters from the chair in the corner. She rises to her feet and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. Her brows are almost knitted together. “Like a weird cry for help. He knows that his Wolf and Raven’s Wolf are twins. What if it’s his way of asking for help? What if he is doing it in a way that means Blair doesn’t know.”

“That!” Raven points at Mallory as she glares at me. “That is what I mean.”

“Raven….” Damien starts.

“No. I love you Damien, but I am not giving up on him yet. My gut is telling me this is wrong. He is skin and bones. He speaks differently, yet uses familiar terms, he even laughs differently.” She pleads with me.

“Jenson chose to mark her.”

“It’s not like you have never made a mistake, is it? Are you forgetting about all those women that you dragged into contracts before Neah came along?” She snaps, smacking her palm against my desk. "And what about if things changed after that?"

I see Damien cock an eyebrow at me.

She had pleaded with me over the years for all sorts of

Damien mutters.

had fucked up or gotten himself into trouble. For years I had put up with his excuses, letting them slide over my head until my mate walked into my life. And even now, he is still getting himself into shit

too

spill down Raven’s face. “You promised. You promised that you would look after us. You promised mum

kid for a long time. Sometimes,

saying is that you

sigh and fold my arms across my

she is doing to him, but she is killing him.” She shakes Damien off of her hips and storms out of the room. Damien follows her as she stomps up the stairs which is followed by

loves him.”

He

and I know you are probably going to tell me to keep my mouth shut. But even you must see that he should have woken long before you chucked him in the dungeon.

a watcher, Dane. I like watching people. I like learning how people work, how they

“Most of the time?”

though trying to read Neah is like looking for a needle in a

because it was

isn’t adding

mate. That’s