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

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

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

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

it." She struggles against me. "Or let me go. It will be

don't think so Madison. Not while I feel the fire licking at my skin like it is me that

and pulls it under her 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

Death was a way to

going to kill you, not yet. But you keep your

a burnt arm over my shoulder. It had been years since I had

like this. Her

inch of me.

and I loved it.

she was to me, but I couldn't let her do something so reckless

for me to put Madison down so

to one side. "You

back, throwing a glance over

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