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.

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

a light on. The only way I could tell if it was night or day is when one of us was taken

sound fake. As she comes into view, my mouth drops open. He

hair still clung to the dirty sweatshirt she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into

corner.

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

whisper when the door

shaved my

"Why?"

was lying. That I'm hiding things. He

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

shave my hair because

have

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

me

"An apple?"

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

don't know how much this means to me.

and then slip it through the cell

devours that thing in seconds, stupid

ask you?" I needed

know if there

Like someone else

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

them they are