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."

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

said she was gone. Do

head on. But losing a mate was like nothing I had ever

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

hit the wall over and over

up knuckles are already healing which just irritates me more. I

to his own sister?" I ask, trying to understand even a little of what

my answer and you already

is a self

he wanted. He always had some kind of hissy fit. thought

are you so

"Give me your hand."

hand and presses it on her chest. Dane would have

always match the interior.” It was a phrase I had used. A way to tell her that not everything is exactly what you see. And now she was using the

beating, Neah's heart is practically humming, yet to look at her,

feel Dane's pain even though