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?"

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

than once?" Mallory mutters in

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

explaining why the guy

thing I could think of. But he marked me. Told me that he needed to keep tabs on

you just shift and kill

and she presses her

'Lies!' Nyx snaps

to ignore my 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 too much. She constantly tried to make me see the bad in everything. Sometimes it seemed like I wasn't just fighting

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

over.

"I knew you are going to ask me and I don't know the answer." "Were you bound?" Her tears had

was just their plaything.

et

sense of smell and hearing. Obviously you can link me. I have just never been able to shift. I can prove the other

have been bound.' Nyx

have been sold multiple times. Did any

her head at me.

"What do you mean?"

time ago, I learned that if I just did what they asked, they

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

breaks my thoughts. She looked

you. But as long as I

"Until Enzo?" Mallory asks

drop to the

She had figured

to