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...."

taken away

supposed to happen. It was supposed to

and she squeezes her eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain

pushes against me, but she's weak

just do it." She struggles against me.

I don't think so Madison. Not while I feel

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

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

to kill you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut about what happened and

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

this. Her

of me.

and I loved it.

to me, but I couldn't let her do

come rushing forward when they see us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down

me to one

a glance over my shoulder to check

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