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.

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

"Mallory...." Klaus starts

already know. I was just...." I turn my head towards Eric. "I'm sorry." I'm trying to hold it together but my chest is tight and my lungs burn with the

his face, there was something else

much damage, Mal. It, um... it...." I had never seen him lost for words. The news was worse than me

"It can't heal." Not only had I lost the pup.

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

him of Damient to have

fucking not? He is why I'm here. He is why I lost the pup. He fucking shot

wasn't him!" Eric stops

He is the only one

it off of him, but when it went

should feel better. The idiot that shot me was dead. But I don't, I just feel sore and empty. How something so tiny could leave you feeling so empty was something

"I will be okay here. I will just..." I look around the room. "I guess I will just

was two nights ago. Because of the damage, your body

"Oh."

I

worse