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.

apple, I retreat to the back of my cell, letting the shadows wash over me. I don't eat the apple, but

It's dark all the time unless they leave a light on. The only way I could tell if it was night or day is when one of us was taken out. So I

As she comes into view, my mouth drops open. He had shaved her head

long blonde hair still clung to the dirty sweatshirt she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into the cell, she rushes to her

corner.

he turns

whisper when the door closes and we are

air. "He shaved my head.

"Why?"

was lying. That I'm

I found myself mindlessly running my hands through the fluff that was

punishing us. He can't shave my hair because

have

the protein bar, if I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious

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

"An apple?"

step into the light to

you don't know how much this means

it through the cell bars, pushing it hard enough so that it rolls to

seconds, stupid

did he ask you?"

wanted to know if

Like someone else that

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

them they