The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0320



"We talked about it, but then Jenson happened. Damien doesn't get my sorrow and I'm starting to think that our bond is broken." She screws up her face. "The advice I was given was to talk."

"I am talking."

"To your mate, Raven. He's the one that needs to understand you. He's the one that can read your mind, can feel what you are feeling."

"Then why doesn't he get it."

"Because you were a twin who shared twin wolves. I mean, I don't even fully understand how it works. I don't even understand who decides who gets who. I'm still learning a lot of stuff, but maybe, if you talk to Damien instead of shutting him out."

"I'm not shutting him out."

She sighs. "You've barely spoken to him. He has made sure you slept, you were fed, that you changed your clothes. He has given you the space you needed to deal with the situation. He made sure you left the hospital even if it was only for a few minutes to make sure you were getting some fresh air. You are wrong about your bond being broken."

I frown, I hadn't really thought about that. somehow in my haze of making sure everything was in place for my brother, I had missed everything everyone was doing. "Since when did you get so wise?" I muse

She gets up off the floor, takes Evrin from me and settles into the large chair by the window. "You aren't asking about being wise, are you. You want to know what's happening with my darkness?"

and scoop up a begging Logan. "No one talks about it. Are you

it. That I have to hold it back and stop myself from going insane. Even Abraxas said

"I don't follow."

spent years not being able to communicate with me and then when she did, I kept trying to shut her down." "So you were

Rogue." She frowns and bites on her bottom lip. "The darkness that makes the others Rogue is different, they become their Lycan, But I have a seperate one. Nyx has her own thoughts, opinions

mentioned that you were

holds out her hand. Claws inch out

getting easier. And I'm not landing on my face

smirk and she returns it. "But you are okay,

don't have this crushing sensation." She pats her chest and smiles. "And Nyx says about time. But we don't have

anything you want."

didn't want to talk about Jenson, not

girl, the one that Abraxas brought out of the fire. She's

"Yes."

help her?" She opens her mouth. "I mean, he is a Hunter, right, so he should want to kill

nephew. He is a mini version of Dane, even down to the way he looks at

keeping an eye on him." Neah tells

had come too? I grieve for my brother and they exclude me out

fire?" I had to know something. They couldn't keep