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."

all, she had kept a level of calmness. She had seen something that we

gone.

head on. But losing a mate was like nothing I had ever felt. It is painful. It is full of sorrow. And everything no longer feels straight

I slam my fist against the wall.

doesn't say anything. She lets me hit the wall over and over without so much as a

just irritates me more. I turn to face Neah. "Why haven't you said anything?" "I'm not feeling what you are

I ask, trying

and you

a self centred

what he wanted. He always had some kind of hissy fit. thought that he might change, but that was a long time ago. And if anything,

you

"Give me your hand."

would have a fucking field day if he saw

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

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

Dane's pain