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.

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

me. I run my fingers over the gold lettering.

shift my eyes to Dane, but he was now busy rummaging

dust is thrown up around me. Spluttering, Dane asks me if I'm okay.

handwriting in a language that I didn't understand. What is this? I

Latin.' She

'Latin?'

only been

on to a family tree. Just like the one Klaus had done for me, only this one had more names and spread over several pages. Next to my mother's name is the name 'Amelia Kitson', with a birth and a death date. Stemming

I've found something." I mutter

at keeping decent paperwork." He makes his way towards me and I offer him the

"It would make sense. If Samara didn't know her mother. The family would not have known

Maybe Amelia told them the baby didn't

it does mean Samara

carries Alpha genes. She

"I don't think so."

"Why?"

just replace you. And besides, if you were to die.

Samara? She can't stay in the dungeons