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...."

seen it. You've taken away the

wasn't supposed to happen. It was

squeezes her eyes tight. Her sorrow and her pain weighed heavily on

wasn't supposed to get so big." She pushes against me, but she's weak and exhausted. The flesh on

when you shot Enzo. Please, just do it." She struggles against

the fire, never to be seen again? I don't think so Madison. Not while I

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

she is hoping for. Death was a way to escape me, but I wasn't letting her go anywhere. Not

am not going to kill you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut

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

like this.

of me. I

and I loved it.

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

come rushing forward when they see us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she could check her over while Neah

me to one side. "You saved

throwing a glance over

arms across her chest and narrows her eyes at me. She wasn't going to let this go