The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0403



"We are trying, Blair. We want a life here. The Wolves are not bad people, well, maybe the odd one, but most of them are happy with the way things are run here. The boys go to school. Your mum helps out at the bakery when she hasn't got Braelyn attached to her. Alpha Dane lets me work on the gate now."

"Braelyn?"

"Your sister." He smiles to himself.

"Can I meet her?"

He shakes his head, "Not while you are down here and not until you are no longer considered a threat."

"A threat? I can't smell anything other than my own stench. I can't hear anything other than your words. I can't heal. I almost passed out and I get this weird feeling in my stomach, yet you think I'm a threat."

"Then prove everyone wrong."

He turns to leave and then turns back, taking an apple out of his jacket. Placing it just inside of my bars, he sighs. "Here, it's not much, but I could hear your stomach from the top of the steps. If you want a chance Blair, I suggest you do everything they ask of you."

He didn't know I already had a job.

"What if that isn't enough?"

"Then I guess you didn't try hard enough."

I stare at the apple for sometime. Ryken had no reason to be kind to me. No reason to tell me to prove myself. If anything, I thought he would be grateful that I was going to be killed.

I don't eat the apple, but I do roll it in my fingers,

way I could tell if it was

she comes into view, my mouth drops open. He had shaved her head right down to the skin.

clung to the dirty sweatshirt she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into the cell,

corner.

sneers as he turns away, not bothering to stop to look at

whisper when the door closes

cries fill the air. "He shaved my head. He

"Why?"

I'm hiding things. He

grow back." It was what she had always said to me when I found myself mindlessly running my hands

He can't shave my hair because it's already

you have any

at the apple. She could smell it, just like she had scented the protein bar, if I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop talking to me. Then, I would really

stepdad was here. He brought me an apple. Do you want

"An apple?"

nod and step into the light to

you don't know how much this means to me. My stomach

it through the cell bars, pushing it hard enough

devours that thing in seconds, stupid girl. She should have made

ask you?" I needed to know

if

else? Like someone else that

me. It doesn't matter what I say, they are dead set

tell them