The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0324



Abraxas doesn't answer and I knew without looking he was probably holding in a laugh, but I do hear him hoist the body up on his shoulder and trudge away.

I walk back through the Lycans to Dane. Not a single one tries to move. Fear or maybe shame that they had brought someone like that here. Whatever it was, I didn't care.

Dane slips his hand in mine 'How did it feel?' He links me

'It was the right thing to do.'

'You know that is not what I'm asking.'

I turn my eyes to his crimson ones. "It felt... right." I look at the Lycans and then over to where Mallory had been. Her blood still remained. "I need to check on her."

"What do you want to do with them?" Dane nods in the direction of the Lycans still flat on the ground.

I shrug my shoulders. I hadn't thought that far ahead.

"Let me handle it. Just release them from the order." He presses his lips to my cheek

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I've got a bit more experience."

I let everyone up and run over to the hospital, expecting to find Raven, but it's Klaus shouting out demands and instructions.

Damien is sitting on a chair outside the room, his hands clasped together between his knees.

"Are you praying?"

flash up to me. "Someone's got to

his head and

is fighting to save her." He

"Where's Raven?"

see a flash of anger in his

Why wouldn't she

Raven has helped train before. All we can do

answer

do this to her, Neah? She told me he knew." He asks. I think if it had been anyone else that had been shot,

"It wasn't him."

He's been waiting, biding

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wasn't him repeat.

et

from him or almost did, I'm not entirely sure. I think Abraxas was trying to get it off of him when the gun went off. That bullet was not for

don't need to defend him." He

Dane, he witnessed

clenches, "Where's

"Dead."

"Abraxas killed him?"

"No, I did."

hand before flashing back up to my

listen to Klaus fire out more instructions.

Eric?" I

points to the nurses

the end. He is still, sat on the floor with his back pressed up against the counter. There's no sound, no tears, just the steady rhythm of his heart. If heloses Mallory, I'm certain

Mallory's blood. His eyes raise to meet mine, but they are hollow, like