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...."

seen it. You've taken away the home of a

"That wasn't supposed to happen. It was

tight. Her sorrow

big." She pushes against me, but she's weak and exhausted. The flesh on her arms is already healing. "You

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

while I feel the fire licking at my skin like it

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

was a way to escape me,

kill you, not yet. But you keep your mouth shut about what happened and how the fire started.

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

this.

of me.

and I loved it.

was to me, but I couldn't let her

they see us. Raven demands for me to put Madison down so she could check her over while Neah stares at

me to one side. "You

I mutter back, throwing a glance over my shoulder to check

you liked Lycans?" Neah blocks my gaze as she folds her arms across her chest and narrows her eyes at me.