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.

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

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

full on crying as Abraxas 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 is balder

she is wearing and as Abraxas pushes her into

corner.

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

the door closes and

the air. "He shaved

"Why?"

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

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

can't shave my hair because

do you have any food?"

I kept withholding my treats, she might become suspicious and stop talking to me. Then, I would really be writing my death

here. He brought me an apple. Do you

"An apple?"

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

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

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

that thing in seconds, stupid girl. She

did he ask you?" I needed to

to know if there

Like someone else that has

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

you tell them