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 fingers, trying to figure out what

way I could tell if it was

Abraxas shoves her down the stairs. And this time, it didn't sound fake. As she comes into view, my

she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes

corner.

he turns away, not bothering

the door closes

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

"Why?"

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

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

punishing us. He can't shave

do you have

smell it, just like she had scented the protein bar, if I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop talking to me. Then, I would really be

here. He brought me an apple.

"An apple?"

light to show her. "I can roll

this means to me. My

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

seconds, stupid girl. She should

did he ask you?" I needed

know if there was

else? Like someone else that

with Cooper. They all doz They don't believe me. It doesn't matter what I say, they are dead set on

you tell them they are