The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0290



Neah

Mallory guides a crying woman into the office. The red haired woman has her hands clutched to her chest, almost hyperventilating as a wide eyed Mallory ushers her into a chair.

"He can't hurt you now." Mallory tells her.

The bang made sense now. Abraxas had killed someone else. Someone that he had deemed unworthy to even meet me. By the mark on this woman's neck, my guess is the person was her mate.

"I'm sorry." I mutter, knowing there would be no words to actually soothe the loss of her mate. She is most likely in agony.

“He's really dead?” She splutters through tears.

"Yes." Mallory offers her a smile

"Good!" The woman looked so relieved to here the confirmation. Now I was even more confused. "The bastard marked me when I received your link."

"You weren't his mate?" I ask as even more questions develop in my head

'It's a trap.' Nyx mutters.

'You think everything is a trap.' I snap back

"No." The redhead mumbles. "I was sold to him."

I was starting to see why Abraxas had shot him. “You were sold?"

red hair falls down over her face "It's not the first

than once?" Mallory

her head. "When I received your link. I saw an opportunity. I told him I had to come. That you had

Wolf." Mallory adds, explaining why the guy hadn't

think of. But he marked me. Told me that he needed

just shift and kill him,

presses her lips into a thin

'Lies!' Nyx snaps

to feel like there was something seriously wrong with Nyx. She was so up and down. She made me question myself far too much. She constantly tried to make me see the bad in

she started hating the idea of me trying to link everyone. Something she was on board with at first and suddenly changed her

over.

with the ends of her waist long hair. "I knew you are going to ask me and I don't know the answer." "Were you bound?"

was just their plaything. I

et

you can link me. I have just never been able to shift. I can prove the other stuff if you like. Do you have a

has to have been bound.' Nyx

said you have been sold multiple times. Did any of them drug you?" I

her head at me. "They didn't

"What do you mean?"

I just did what they asked, they wouldn't

all. They bought her but didn't hurt her? Trey, Cassandra had found an excuse to hit me for any reason, even when

my thoughts. She looked horrified by

sound crazy to you. But as long as I did that, they didn't hurt me. None

"Until Enzo?" Mallory asks

eyes drop

had figured out what

to do to survive