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...."

taken away the home of a pregnant

"That wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be

heart races and she squeezes her eyes tight. Her

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

just do it." She struggles against me. "Or let

you can walk into the fire, never to be seen again? I don't think so Madison. Not while I feel

live in fear anymore. Please just kill me?" She tries to squeeze my finger over the trigger, though her weakness barely

for. Death was a way to escape

But you keep your mouth shut

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

this. Her

inch of me.

and I loved it.

but I couldn't let her do

Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she

one side. "You saved

mutter back, throwing a glance over my shoulder to

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