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."

her." I look up into my Alpha's blue eyes. Somehow, through it all, she had kept a level of calmness. She

she was gone. Do you

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 full of sorrow. And

gave up." I slam my fist against the

doesn't say anything. She lets me hit the wall over and over without

healing which just irritates me more. I turn to face

would he do this to his own sister?" I ask, trying to understand even

answer and you

is a self centred

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

are you

"Give me your hand."

would have a fucking field day if he saw

her that not

Neah's heart is practically

Dane's pain