The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0315



"I'm not letting you go anywhere."

She stares at me with her wide chestnut eyes, trying to understand me. I spot the matches nearby with a small aerosol can.

"You started the fire, didn't you?" I ask as the flames move from one charcoaled tree to the next.

"No." She mutters, but her answer comes out full of desperation and sadness. As if she was a child being scolded over spilt milk

"Your soul tells me differently. The evidence tells me differently"

She turns from me and starts crawling back towards the fire, dragging herself across the forest floor and ignoring every bit of pain she is feeling.

Pinning her to the ground, I straddle her hips as she lets out a sob.

"Why?" I demand. "Why would you do this to the person that took you in?"

"What do you mean?" Tears trickle over her soot smudged face.

burned Mallory's

"I didn't...."

seen it. You've taken away the

"That wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be

she squeezes her eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain weighed

she's weak and exhausted. The flesh on

Enzo. Please, just do it." She struggles against me. "Or let me go.

seen again? I don't think so Madison. Not while

manages to grab my hand with the gun, and pulls it under her chin, locking her hands tightly over mine "I can't live in fear anymore. Please just kill

Death was a way to escape me, but I wasn't

you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut about what happened

from the ground, I cradle her in my arms as she hooks a burnt arm over

this.

every inch of

and I loved it.

me, but I couldn't let

rushing forward when they see us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she could check her over while Neah stares at me with

me to one

back, throwing a glance over my shoulder to check

think you liked Lycans?" Neah blocks my gaze as she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her eyes at