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.

apple, but I do roll it in my fingers, trying to figure out what I

passes differently 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 us was taken out. So I had no idea how long it was before Sammie

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

corner.

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

the door closes and

air. "He shaved

"Why?"

lying. That I'm hiding things. He shaved

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

us. He can't shave

do you have

I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop

brought me an apple. Do

"An apple?"

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

know how much this

cell bars, pushing it hard enough so that it rolls to

stupid girl.

did he ask you?" I needed to know

know if

Like someone else that has been

matter what I say, they are dead set on the idea.

tell them