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.

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

if it was night or day is when one of

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

hair still clung to the dirty sweatshirt she is wearing

corner.

he turns

door closes and we are

fill the air. "He shaved my head. He took it

"Why?"

kept saying I was lying. That I'm hiding things. He

me when I found myself mindlessly running my hands through the fluff that was my hair. "He's

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

have any

bar, if I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop talking to me. Then, I would really be writing

He brought me an apple. Do

"An apple?"

light to show her. "I

don't know how much this means to me.

cell bars,

thing in seconds, stupid girl. She should have made it

he ask you?" I needed

if

someone else that

don't believe me. It doesn't matter what I say, they are dead set on the idea. You have to tell them

you tell them they are