The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0446

Neah

'It's just like Damien said. They are all dead. We killed them. They can't hurt you anymore." Nyx whispers as we follow Dane through the house.

We stop outside the office door. My heart hammers in my chest and Dane squeezes my hand as he leads me inside. "Not all memories are bad. I met you here."

My eyes flicker around the room, settling on the bloodstain on the carpet. It was where Kyle had fallen. In typical Cassandra style, it was never cleaned up. That would have been my job.

"Why did you lie?" I whisper

"Lie?"

"You told them that I put you in the office. You lied."

"I had a suspicion that they were hurting you. Trey proved my point when he went to hit you and then again when they tried putting you in the basement"

"It seems so long ago and yet...." I had spent ages in this office, scrubbing it from top to bottom with a toothbrush while Cassandra stood over me, barking orders or yelling at how I had missed a spot. There were so many times that I wished I had the courage to shove the toothbrush through her eye.

Well, you went a step further than that.' Nyx muses

I smile to myself and Dane presses his lips to my cheek.

then." He drops my hand and begins rummaging in the desk. I move to the bookcase. Several dozen large books lined the shelves. Books that I had always longed to read but never

closest to me. I run my fingers over the gold lettering. Just

to Dane, but he was now busy rummaging through a cabinet, pulling out large amounts of

thrown up around me. Spluttering, Dane asks me if

of fancy handwriting in a language that

like Latin.' She

'Latin?'

I've only been with

this one had more names and spread over several pages. Next to my mother's name is the

I've found

at keeping decent paperwork." He makes

mother. The family would not have known about her to record

Amelia told them the

possibility. But sadly, it does mean Samara is right. You two

a threat." I frown. "She carries Alpha genes. She

"I don't think so."

"Why?"

last female Alpha. She can't just replace you. And besides, if you were to die. The role wouldn't be hers anyway. You have twin boys that are

stay in the dungeons forever.