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.

the shadows wash over me. I don't eat the apple, but I do roll it in my fingers, trying to figure out what I can do to get something useful

unless they leave a light on. The only way I could tell if it was night or

it didn't sound fake. As she comes into

long blonde hair still clung to the dirty sweatshirt she is wearing and as

corner.

next time you won't lie." He sneers as he turns away, not bothering to stop to look at

door closes

the air. "He shaved my

"Why?"

That I'm

will grow back." It was what she had always said to me when I found myself mindlessly running my hands through the fluff that was my hair. "He's cruel."

punishing us. He can't shave my hair because it's already

do you have any food?"

apple. She could smell it, just like she had scented the protein bar, if I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and

He brought me an apple. Do you

"An apple?"

nod and step into the light to show her. "I can roll it to

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

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

stupid girl. She should have made it

he ask you?" I needed to

know if there was

else that has been

They all doz They don't believe me. It doesn't matter what I say,

tell them they are