The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0378



Dane

"Stay here." I tell Neah, pulling on a shirt

"Who is it?" She asks, already climbing out of bed and heading to the closet.

"It doesn't matter. You need to stay here."

She carries on pulling on underwear as though I hadn't said anything. "I was right." She murmurs. "My gut feeling was right." She shimmy's herself into a pair of jeans. "Is it Cooper?"

"No."

"Who? Maddie. Did something happen? Has she said something?"

"It's not Maddie. Please will you just stay here until I know more."

"Our children are not even in the house."

"Athena and Sebastian won't let anything happen to them." I reassure her.

"Do they need to be kept safe? What's happened? You are not answering my question Dane!" She plants her hands on her hips and stares at me. She was trying to read my mind.

I shake my head because I knew what her reaction would be when she found out who was at the gate.

"It's Blair."

She stops what she's doing to stare at me.

'Three, two....' Aero starts counting down, preparing for Neah to snap. Instead, she sinks into the large chair, her soft blue eyes hovering on me. "Why is she here?"

"I don't know, but will you please stay here? Just until I know what she wants. Besides, you are supposed to be staying in the house."

She doesn't answer me.

"Neah?"

her

my jacket and kiss Neah before leaving. Whether she would actually stay put was another

The blonde with her was sitting

was expecting Neah."

have me." I snap. "Why are you

she tries to come up with a response. She tugs her sweatshirt tighter as though it was going to

"Well?"

looked genuinely unsure. "I could have left. I wanted to leave. I was ready to go. All I

guessing he

to come here or maybe

"Why?"

if I said I'm still trying to figure that out. I'm probably going to die here. I deserve it." She puffs out her cheeks just like Neah does when she is contemplating something. She screws her face up. "I think

and I told you that for years. You go and lose your Lycan and suddenly you have seen the light. Maybe

need to wish this on someone." As much as I despised Blair, no one deserved to lose their

a lot." She returns her gaze to Ryken. "I

"Mistakes?"

I learned to survive and thrive from it. I made money. Got myself a home. I lived a life that I thought I loved.

trying the tough love act as a father

also slowly sent my

her heels as she keeps her gaze off of

hasn't been done before. He didn't survive it." Damien growls. "But you, you made him into

it down around her face. "I'm sorry. I dragged him into my mess,

open arms? Let you stay in the pack? I could give you a list as long as my arm for everyone who wants you

he sees me if I am lying, that's if he doesn't kill me first, I screwed with his life too." She frowns and takes a deep breath.

me." But I am

who slaughtered Salem. The one

but I am scared, because I think

she was lying and

and Ryken. "Put her in the dungeon,"

she is hauled