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...."

away the

to happen.

squeezes her eyes tight. Her sorrow and

pushes against me, but she's weak and exhausted. The flesh

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

don't think so Madison. Not while I feel the fire licking at my skin like it is

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 me?" She tries

she is hoping for. Death was a way to escape me, but I wasn't letting

kill you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut about what happened and how the fire

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

like this.

inch of

and I loved it.

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

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

one

throwing a glance over my shoulder to check

as she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her eyes at me. She