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.

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 do

time unless they leave a 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 how long

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

dirty sweatshirt she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into the cell,

corner.

lie." He sneers as he turns

the door closes and we are

cries fill the air. "He shaved my

"Why?"

I was lying. That I'm hiding things.

It was what she had always said to me when I found

us. He can't shave my hair

have any

the apple. She could 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

stepdad was here. He brought me an apple. Do

"An apple?"

the light to show her.

you, you don't know how much this means

the cell bars, pushing it hard

devours that thing in seconds, stupid girl. She

did he ask you?" I needed to know

know if there was anyone

else? Like someone else that has been made

They don't believe me. It doesn't matter what I say, they are dead set

them they