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

"That wasn't supposed to

eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain weighed heavily on

to get so big." She pushes against me, but she's weak and

Please, just do it." She struggles

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

locking her hands tightly over mine "I can't live in fear anymore. Please just kill me?" She tries to squeeze my finger over the trigger, though

is what she is hoping for. Death was a way to escape me, but

kill you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut

a burnt arm over my

like this. Her

of me. I

and I loved it.

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

put Madison down so she could check her over while Neah

one side.

glance over my shoulder

across her chest and narrows her eyes at