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 house

"I didn't...."

You've taken away the

supposed to happen.

eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain

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

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

fire, never to be seen again? I don't think so Madison. Not while I feel the fire licking at my skin like it is me that

chin, 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 I wasn't letting her go

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

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

this. Her

every inch of me. I

and I loved it.

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

us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she

pulls me to one side. "You saved

throwing a glance

gaze as she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her