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 long red hair falls down over her

sold more than

I saw an opportunity. I told him I had to

adds, explaining why the guy hadn't

was the only thing I could think of. But he marked me. Told me that he needed to

just shift and kill

brows knit together and she presses her lips into a thin line. "I can't

'Lies!' Nyx snaps

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 everything. Sometimes it seemed like I wasn't

to link everyone. Something she was on board with at first

over.

with the ends of her waist long hair. "I knew you are going to ask me and I

I was just their plaything. I

et

you can link me. I have just never been able

to have been bound.' Nyx

been sold multiple times. Did any of them drug

head at

"What do you mean?"

learned that if I just did what they asked, they wouldn't hurt

but didn't hurt her? Trey, Cassandra had found an excuse to

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

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

"Until Enzo?" Mallory asks

drop

had figured

to survive