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."

blue eyes. Somehow, through it all, she had kept a level

said she was gone. Do you feel

curl up in a ball and hide from the word. I always faced it head on. But losing a mate was like

gave up." I slam my fist against the wall. "She fucking gave up

the wall over and over without so much as a

busted up knuckles are already healing which just irritates me more. I turn to face Neah. "Why haven't you said anything?" "I'm not

to his own sister?" I ask, trying to understand even

answer and you already know what I'm going to

a self centred

many other things. It's like Dane said, he couldn't ever cope with not getting what he wanted. He always had some kind of hissy

you

"Give me your hand."

hand and presses it on her chest. Dane would have a fucking field day if

a phrase I had used. A way to tell her that

but it's doing more than just beating, Neah's heart is practically humming, yet to

feel Dane's pain even