The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0311



I had learned quickly to practise in the nude. Ripped clothes would be suspicious and only draw questions.

Dane grabs a blanket from the bed and quickly wraps it around me. His crimson eyes give me the once over. "Why?" He asks

"I've been practising." I mutter back, stretching myself out and feeling a few more bones crack. There was no point in lying, he would be paying close attention to my mind now.

"Too fucking right." He stares at me with his crimson eyes.

"Practising? As in you are letting the darkness in and then pushing it back?" Damien asks.

"No." I frown, because I still couldn't fully explain it. "You said it was hard. You told me that once the darkness gets in it's difficult to get back out. That it's almost impossible. That's not true. Mallory did it, Salem did and so did you."

"With a lot of hard work." Damien replies in annoyance

work for you." I mumble and he glances to Dane. "It's not for me, not

you

that there is a reason the Rogues have a darkness in them before they turn. You told me that it's different for everyone. That it was something from their past that made them that way. But me," I snort, because it has taken me far too long to see it. "I was born with this. It makes me

talking."

blames me!'

her. But I finally stopped to listen and I learned something." I shake my head and get to my feet, tugging the blanket around me, I tie a knot to keep it up over my chest. "I'm

at each other like I

head, "Neah, Brax

lot of

the darkness

And he's right, but his reasoning for why Nyx does is wrong. was trying to block Nyx, She was fitting in the gaps to try and make me whole, make me strong. To help me function better.

sees,” Dane shakes

Lycan Alpha before."

move in front of my