The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0407



Klaus

Cooper slept on a chair in the corner of the room. His jacket collar hiked up around his chin. His arms folded tightly across his chest, while his feet rested on the coffee table that he had placed in front of the door like a barricade.

We had made it to Blair's house without any witnesses, but on the way here, each step seemed to make Cooper more and more agitated. He was frustrated with my calmness, and angry that I wasn't angry. It was clear he got off on making people lose their sanity, but it didn't work with me.

Leaning back against the corner he had dumped me in, I let out a sigh. He had pressed for more information about his sister. Something else he grew frustrated about when I didn't answer him. I was fully expecting him to hit, to punish me, but other than keeping me tied up, he hasn't hurt me.

I hear him stir and close my eyes, just as his boots hit the floor with a thud. After listening to his quiet movements in the forest, his paces now seemed incredibly loud.

He stops in front of me. "Can't sleep?"

I don't respond.

"Klaus, I know you are awake." He doesn't move and I keep my eyes closed. "You breathe a little heavier and you usually talk in your sleep."

Crap, what had I been saying. My eyes snap open, "How do you know that?"

He smiles. "You have a lovely home in Black Shadow." He drops onto the floor next me, his arm brushes mine. "I get it." He mutters, "You want to protect your pack. But you are going to have to speak to me eventually and, well, I always get what I want."

anything other than my pack." Maybe I could find the real reason

love that pack so

lips together

even answer

He hadn't beaten me so far and I would prefer to keep it that way. "You drive a hard bargain." He winks at me. "I like that about you Klaus. Or maybe I like it because we are mates?" "We

it doesn't mean we are not. You will scent me again when the drugs wear off." "Only because you are doing something to trick my mind. We are not mated." I state confidently. I wasn't falling for his games. "Is that what you really

Blair, right? And probably many others too. Lure them into thinking that you are there for them

are right. Maybe you have me all wrong. Only time will tell." He pats my leg, "Get some sleep.

me. "You are not like

my eyes, "Do

to fall for that?

me in a tiny room. Do what you need to

really care

with his, he

chair, his sage green

see yesterday. The

He had given

could scent him, not by much, but it was there. Maybe it isn't in the drugs. Maybe

himself, projecting the scent. After all, he

do I need

everything about me makes me a prick, Klaus. There are some things I do care about. You just