The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0398



Dane

The pack house is quiet. No sound comes from Neah or the twins. Damien must have settled Dorothy because I don't hear them either.

Following Neahs lavender scent, I find her sitting in the attic, surrounded by all the twins' baby things. Her tired blue eyes flicker up to mine and she lets out a sigh but does not speak and continues to fold up clothes.

"I'm not upset." I move further into the light. "I just needed to put some arrangements in place to protect him. To protect them. If Evrin can shift then Logan probably isn't that far behind and I need to make sure no one thinks they can take advantage of them.”

"Okay."

She wasn't saying how she really felt and I didn't even have to read her mind to know that.

'She is angry.' Aero murmurs

'I can see that.'

I sit on one of the boxes and it dips from my weight. "I wasn't running away from it. That's not who I am."

"Okay."

answers. I thought we were long

stops folding. I watch her shoulders drop as another

what Evrin saw when you handed him back to me, was exactly what I

comparing me

abandon me when they realised it didn't work and when they still couldn't get rid of me, they bound me again. And you...you just handed him to me and

whispers as though

towards her as her pain grows, but she pulls back, tears creeping down her face as she

"I didn't expect....."

you don't see me running away from our

"I didn't run away."

The tears stop and all I feel is

to keep his mouth shut but we both know Klaus has a loose tongue and likes to overshare. Something like this is exciting news to him and he will think it's a great idea to tell the pack, but only want the pack

tells

I had done just that and I was still holding something back. But she was not in the rioght frame of mind for me to tell her.

assume the twins

it because was the reason for it,

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