The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0396



Mallory

I am more than overwhelmed.

Neah keeps her eyes on me. I don't think she is waiting for an answer, instead I think she is watching to see how I process her words.

My mouth opens and closes several times as I struggle to form any words. I'm also pretty certain that if I had been holding anything but Luca, I would have dropped it.

Forgiveness was something I was never expecting. Never. She had made that very clear that day she finally heard me out.

I clear my throat, hoping that my brain will engage my mouth muscles. "You do?"

She bobs her head at me.

"Why now?" I could feel more tears creeping along my eyelids

"You are not who you were. I'm not who I was. We have both come a long way.” She shrugs her shoulders at me like it's no big deal. “The person you were back then, she only ever cared about herself.”" She smiles to herself. “I killed the man who shot you because it made me so angry that I thought I had lost you too."

I hadn't thought about it like that and she had never mentioned anything about it. Brax had told me that the guy was aiming for Neah and that was why I assumed she killed the guy. Not because he had hurt me.

no idea what it means to hear you say that." I whisper, still trying to process the weird sense of relief that I'm feeling. I had no idea of the guilt I had been holding on to. I guess I had just grown so used

Neah shifts her gaze to the window. "I never thought I would see you again, I definitely didn't think we would be living in the same pack." "Or that you outrank me,

even if she were still alive, I don't think we would be

cared about you." I

a while, but then.....Anyway, do you

response makes Luca jump, causing him

a few hours while she mulls over Dane's reaction to Evrin shifting. Though I'm certain it's just because it's something he wasn't expecting. In the moment he was probably excited and then reality set

the house, I find Dorothy sitting behind a bush, her

most people's

doodling on

by the looks of it the discarded food wrappers, she had been here for

me with bright green eyes, waiting for me

"Why are you sitting behind the

don't want my

Luca and myself until I'm sitting with my knees

that." Her shoulders drop and her bottom lip sticks out.

what happened at school?" It

and the bottom lip comes out

"Something made you angry?"

and refuses to meet

"Lot's of different things make people angry and do you know what I've learned