The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0344



Mallory

I got shot. I got fucking shot. The bastard shot me in the stomach.

My head is fuzzy, yet being shot is the only thing that is clear.

"She's waking up." I hear Eric and I hear the relief in his tone.

Warm fingers lock around my wrist and another set presses against my neck. "Pulse is strong."

I squint one eye and see Klaus smiling at me.

"I was shot." I mutter, opening my eyes fully. I'm met with silence. My fingers move to my stomach. Bandages cover my entire torso. I start to pick at them. I needed to know how bad it was. I was pregnant.

"Mal stop." Eric's hands grab mine, pulling them back as I let out a whimper

“But I'm pregnant!" It wasn't how I wanted to tell him. It was supposed to be a surprise. I wanted to tell him tonight, when everyone is on the pack run.

funny how silence can be deafening. It takes me seconds to connect the dots. I had been shot in the stomach. The bandages that wrapped around me suggested that my wounds were extensive. Which

"Mallory...." Klaus starts

to hold it together but my chest is tight and my lungs burn with the

there was something else he

too much damage, Mal. It, um... it...." I had never

I whisper, knowing what he couldn't say. "It can't heal." Not only

My body was trembling. It wasn't fine, but I had to focus on something else. "Is

expecting him of Damient to have ripped Brax's guts out for what he did to

is why I'm here. He is why I lost the pup. He fucking shot me and he

it wasn't him!" Eric stops

about? He is the

going to shoot Neah. Brax tried to get it off of him,

don't, I just feel sore and empty. How something so tiny could leave you feeling

I mutter to Eric. "I will be okay here. I will just..." I look around the room. "I

of the damage, your body has

"Oh."

something else I

worse could it