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?"

up a begging Logan. "No one talks about it.

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

"I don't follow."

had spent years not being able to communicate with me and then when she did, I kept trying to shut

lip. "The darkness that makes the others Rogue is different, they become their Lycan,

mentioned that

bobs her head at me and holds out her hand. Claws inch out of her

I'm not landing

returns it. "But you are okay,

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

anything you want."

talk about Jenson,

that Abraxas brought out of

"Yes."

her mouth. "I mean, he is a Hunter, right, so he should want to

nephew. He is a mini version of Dane, even down to the

him." Neah tells me, but it didn't feel like the

for my brother and they exclude me out of some things unless they feel

had to know something. They couldn't keep everything away from me just because they think I'm going to