The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0457

Dane

"What the fuck was that? Looking through Ryken's kitchen window, I see thick smoke seeping up into the sky. I almost knock Calihan over trying to get out of the door. Ryken sweeps him up just as Blair appears asking what the noise was. I don't answer her and disappear out the door in the direction of the explosion.

The packhouse was in bits. Half the building was crumbling as my pack worked quickly to put out the flames. The remainder of the roof barely hangs on as more bricks tumble down.

Then I see my mate, sitting on the grass, staring up at what was left of our home.

Dropping down by her side, she doesn't say a word.

*Were you inside?" I didn't know where she was planning on taking Kade. She shakes her head

Where is Kade?' Aero asks. I scan the grounds and don't see him.

*Neah, where is Kade?" I mutter as people continue to run around us

"He did this." She whispers.

"What are you talking about?"

*He blew up our home." She pats her wrist. "He was wearing something. Like a watch, but it had a button. Cooper got to him."

"Neah...."

up our

some kind of shock. I take one last look at the packhouse and head for Eric's home. Thankful that the twins were with them and not in the house. I link everyone that is normally in the house and I

out when we arrive. "What

need to

"Of course."

so angry. The tips of her claws poke out of her finger tips. I didn't understand how a kid could have the ability to blow up a house that big. But her mind

there?" Mallory asks

has

"What?"

up." I repeat Neah's words, still

*Seriously?"

my mates eyes slowly darken. Nyx was close to

little

"I don't know."

"He ran off after we were knocked to the

around and sits up. The darkness of her eyes fading until they were their usual

and that I would ruin them. He said Cooper picked him, not Dorothy and not his

"Was Dorothy a target of

over her eyes and when she takes them away, I see how they are full of tears. "I got him to tell me. He said that Cooper told him when the time was right, to push the button. Because I

around Neah's shoulders. "He is