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?"

puffs out her cheeks,

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

staring at Blair while Ryken is asking her questions. The blonde with her

expecting Neah." Blair

I

brown eyes dance between us as she tries to come up with a response.

"Well?"

don't know." She looked genuinely unsure. "I could have left. I wanted to leave. I

Ryken roll his eyes. I'm guessing he has heard a

decided to come here or maybe it wasn't

"Why?"

to die here. I deserve it." She puffs out her cheeks just like Neah does

your Lycan and suddenly you have seen the light. Maybe

wish this on someone." As much as I despised Blair, no one deserved to lose their beast. Death, yes, but this was

is snoring. "She helped me understand a lot." She

"Mistakes?"

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

he was trying the tough love

and also slowly sent my brother over the

she keeps her gaze off of

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

me. "I did like him. I fell for him and let him mark me and then...." She shakes her head and her hood falls down, revealing her short hair. She quickly hikes the hood back up and pulls it down around her face. "I'm sorry. I dragged

"Do you think I'm going to welcome you with open arms? Let you stay in the pack? I could give you

with his life too." She frowns and takes a deep breath. "My name is Blair Everwood. I was never a Kitson, nor will I ever be one. I am not a Lycan anymore, nor am I

focuses on me." But I am

Damien asks with a tilted head "You, the one who slaughtered Salem. The one who killed a pregnant Lycan and then stole

killed people, but I am scared, because I think I'm about to become responsible for the downfall

lying and someone was waiting, or maybe she

in the dungeon," I point at

squeaks as she