The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0460

They circle the house, taking it in turns. I couldn't stand it any longer. Slipping out of bed, I silently grab the rifle that I stored in my wardrobe and creep up towards the window.

Aiming at one, I don't fire immediately. I watch as they talk to each other in hushed, gravelly voices. They spoke in code too and just like that, they leave. Disappearing behind the empty house opposite mine. Unusual behaviour for Rogues, they didn't usually care about a locked door or window.

I watch until the sun rises, but they don't come back.

"What are you doing?" Madison asks with a yawn.

*There were Rogues here last night." I'm not going to lie to her.

"You didn't wake me?"

"They didn't do anything. It was more like they were looking for someone."

"That's not normal, is it?"

"No."

"Were they looking for you?" she asks

"I'm not sure."

expected to see

*Sure.*

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with me had been a mistake, but

I mutter and place my hand on

"You don't know that."

know that I want to protect you. I know that I can now

me inject something into you without my knowledge. How can you keep me safe from that? How

it to her. "If you think this is a dream,

the car. I don't stop either. If she really believed it was a dream, then

the road to look at her. She can barely keep

*Yes you do."

is heavy as she continues to point it at me. A little gasp escapes her parted lips. "He wouldn't know would he? He wouldn't know that

into her lap. "Besides, you would need to take the safety off." My fingers drum on

the corner of my eye, I see her bob her head. "It's like nothing is mine. He took away my abilities. He somehow convinced me to do something to you. What else could he have done? Did he make me do that to other people? Did

do more than be kissed. He had put more cracks in her soul and I couldn't let

wouldn't have touched you, he has a thing for men, not

and then lean forward, "Is that