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.

Mallory's house

"I didn't...."

taken away the

She whimpers. "That wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed

eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain weighed heavily on

She pushes against me, but she's weak and exhausted. The flesh on her arms is already healing. "You

do it." She struggles against

be seen again? I don't think so Madison. Not while I feel the fire licking at my skin like it

hands tightly over mine "I can't live in fear anymore. Please just kill me?" She

to

you keep your mouth shut about what happened and how

a burnt arm over

like this.

inch of

and I loved it.

couldn't admit what she was to me, but I couldn't let her do

and Neah come rushing forward when they see us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she could

one side. "You

glance over my shoulder to check

Lycans?" Neah blocks my gaze as she folds her arms across her chest