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

"I didn't...."

You've taken away

to happen. It was supposed to be

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

she's weak and exhausted. The flesh on her arms is already

Enzo. Please, just do it." She struggles against me. "Or let me go. It will be easier for

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

live in fear anymore. Please just kill me?" She tries to squeeze my

she is hoping for. Death was a way to

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

cradle her in my arms as she hooks a burnt arm over my shoulder. It had been years since I

this.

every inch of me.

and I loved it.

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

to put Madison down so she could check her

me to one

mutter back, throwing a glance over my shoulder

she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her eyes