The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0335



"Can she come back?"

"When a soul has completely left, no."

I raise the gun, my finger on the trigger. I couldn't see anything but her. The voices around me were echoes.

Images of how we met replay in my head. How I saw her from the gates. How I followed her into the forest and watched her talk to herself, though that turned out to be her Wolf. The first time I kissed her. How her skin was so soft under my fingers. The way she would snore yet insist she didn't. She had opened herself to me and now, I could feel her slipping.

My lungs grow tight until I can barely breathe. She is supposed to be my mate for life, but she had lost herself in her grief. She had been forced out. She had given up on us.

I drop the gun and back out of the room. She was dead. She was gone. It wasn't her.

Neah shouts something about not letting Raven out of their sight. She appears in the hallway seconds later. "You shot her."

up into my Alpha's blue eyes. Somehow, through it all, she had kept a level of calmness. She had seen something that we hadn't. "What do you think we

said she was gone.

nod. I had never had a need to curl up in a ball and hide from the word. I always faced it head on. But losing a mate was like nothing I had ever felt. It is painful. It is

slam my fist against the wall.

She lets me hit the wall

knuckles are already healing which just irritates me more. I turn to face Neah. "Why haven't you

I ask, trying

answer and you already know what I'm

is a self

cope with not getting what he wanted. He always had some kind of hissy fit. thought that he might

are you so

"Give me your hand."

takes my hand and presses it on her chest. Dane would have a

A way to tell her that not everything is exactly what you see. And now she was

her heart beating below my hand, but it's doing more than just beating, Neah's heart is practically humming, yet to look at her, you would think there was nothing going on beneath the

Dane's pain even