The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Mallory

"Something weird is going on?" I frown. I was supposed to be resting, but I was finding it harder and harder to stay still. Like the longer I was still, the more I thought about what I no longer have. I needed to keep busy.

From this window, I could see Dane, Damien and Brax pushing a man and a woman forward. I recognise the guy, he quite often works on the gates. But what I didn't understand is why Damien was carrying what looked like a doll. A toy for Dorothy maybe?

Neah steps up to the window, though she keeps herself partly hidden behind the curtain. "No one is supposed to see me, remember."

"Please just tell me that I am imagining things. Maybe I have fallen ill again and this is a dream."

She pinches my arm.

"Ow."

"Not dreaming." She cautiously peers around the curtain. "Why is Damien carrying a pup?"

"It's not a doll?"

don't move

watch a tiny arm stretch out. But that's all I can make

Wolves had

shrugs her shoulders, "but actually, that's not

herself against the wall and closes her eyes.

"What?"

are going to be

going

of the pack will shift and hunt them, chase them down like they are

et

came here, there was a woman, jealous of Dane and I. She drugged me with Blood of Wolfsbane, almost killing me. Dane took her to the forest and bhad his Wolves hunt her and then rip her apart while she was

"Seriously?"

el

as I watch more of the pack approach. They are already shifting into Wolves as they move. The woman, Sienna, clings to the other guy as though he was somehow going to save her. I

if this was Dane's

those who he feels truly betrayed by." Neah mutters, "If Brax hadn't shot those ones who crashed into us. Dane