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.

to the back of 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 I can

down here. It's dark all the time unless they leave a light on. The only way I could tell if it was night or day is when one of

shoves her down the stairs. And this time, it didn't sound fake. As she comes into view, my mouth drops open. He had shaved her head right down to the skin. Sammie

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

corner.

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

door closes

"He shaved

"Why?"

I'm hiding things. He shaved it

always said to me when I found myself mindlessly running my hands through the fluff

can't shave

have any food?" She

look at the apple. She could smell it, just like she had scented the protein bar, if I kept withholding

me an

"An apple?"

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

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

bite and then slip it through the cell bars, pushing

in seconds, stupid girl. She should have made it

he ask you?" I needed to

if there

else? Like someone else that has been made

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

you tell them they are