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.

of my cell, letting the shadows wash over me. I don't eat the apple, but I do roll it in

it was night or day is when one of us was taken out. So I had no idea how

down the stairs. And this time, it didn't sound fake. As she comes into view, my mouth drops open. He had shaved her head right down

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

corner.

as he turns away, not bothering to stop to look

door closes

fill the air. "He shaved my head.

"Why?"

I'm hiding

when I found myself mindlessly running my hands

He can't shave my

have any food?" She

kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop talking to me. Then, I would

was here. He brought me an apple.

"An apple?"

light to show her. "I can roll it to

how much this means to me. My stomach

bite and then slip it through the cell bars, pushing it

devours that thing in seconds, stupid girl.

you?" I needed

know if

Like someone else

believe me. It doesn't matter what I say, they

you tell them they