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

"I didn't...."

You've taken away the home

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

races and she squeezes her eyes tight. Her sorrow and

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

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

into the 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 is walking through

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

a way to escape me, but I wasn't letting her go

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

as she hooks a

this.

inch of me.

and I loved it.

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

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

me to one

I mutter back, throwing a glance over my shoulder to check

liked Lycans?" Neah blocks my gaze as she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her eyes at me. She wasn't going to let this