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?"

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

sold more than once?"

opportunity. I told him I

Mallory adds, explaining why the guy hadn't heard my

could think of. But he marked me. Told me that he needed to keep tabs on me." She runs her fingers over the mark on her

you just shift and

she presses her lips

'Lies!' Nyx snaps

Lycan. I was starting to feel like there was something seriously wrong with Nyx. She was so up and down. She made me question myself far

me trying to link everyone. Something she was on board with at

over.

her head at me and fidgets 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?"

I was just

et

I heal quickly, I'm fast. Uh, have a great sense of smell and hearing. Obviously you can link me. I have just never been able to shift. I can prove the other stuff

to have been bound.'

times. Did

head at me. "They didn't

"What do you mean?"

time ago, I learned that if I just

wasn't following her at all. They bought her but didn't hurt her? Trey, Cassandra had found an excuse to hit me for any

sex with them?" Mallory breaks my thoughts. She looked horrified by the

head. "It might sound crazy to you. But as long as I did that, they didn't hurt me.

"Until Enzo?" Mallory asks

drop to the

She had figured out what

to survive