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.

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

light on. The only way I could tell if it was night or day is when one of us was taken out. So I had no idea

time, it didn't sound fake. As she comes into

wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into the cell, she rushes

corner.

he turns away, not bothering

the door closes and we are

air. "He shaved my head. He took it

"Why?"

lying. That I'm hiding things. He shaved it

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

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

do you have any food?"

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

stepdad was here. He brought me

"An apple?"

into the light to show her. "I can

this means

slip it through the cell bars, pushing it hard enough so that it

in seconds, stupid girl. She should have made

you?" I needed

if there was

Like someone else that

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

tell them they are