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 like

and watch a tiny arm stretch out. But that's all I can make out as they move further and further

those Wolves had a

now, so it could be." She shrugs her shoulders, "but actually, that's not Kira... that's...one of Raven's nurses

the wall and closes

"What?"

going to

going

Brax." She sighs, "Some of the pack will shift and hunt them, chase them down

et

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 still

"Seriously?"

el

they move. The woman, Sienna, clings to the other guy as though he was somehow going to save

if this was Dane's

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