The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West



Chapter 0461

Neah

"You will figure it out." Mallory offers me a smile. "You have always figured shit out." She cradles Luca and rocks side to side as Luca makes little noises. She had settled into motherhood like it was where she was always supposed to be. Yet, a part of me was nervous to tell her I was pregnant again. How do you tell that to a woman who will never carry her own children?

Being here has given me some time to calm down, to come to my senses. And I felt more than stupid. For a brief moment, I could see why Kade had called everyone stupid.

"No one is perfect." Mallory mutters. "You can't keep beating yourself up over it. If Dane suspected anything, there is no way he would have let you wander off with Kade. No one would have expected a kid to do something like that. You did what most sane people would do. Think about it, by the time you could have ordered him to give you the watch, he still could have pressed it."

"It still shouldn't have happened."

*Eric said that if the house was the target, it still would have happened anyway."

I nod as I look over to my boys who are playing in the corner. Half wondering how they would react to another sibling. And half wondering whether this pregnancy was making me miss things. Last time it made me miss important things, I had been so tired with the twins.

"I'm sure they will find something." She smiles at me.

"Even if they do, what good is it? The house is gone. The only place I've ever truly known as home, has gone." "Dane will have it rebuilt."

Knowing Dane, he was already planning a rebuild as soon as

going to do with Kade?" Mallory asks curiously as

child that has ultimately been groomed. To kill him for that, would be wrong." I shake my head. "But he still needs a reasonable punishment for what he

it in the same way as Cassandra did

There is only so far he can run, even if Cooper is waiting

Cooper? The asshole

my thumb over the tips of my fingers, I could feel the very tips of my

cocks a

to work out the finer details before I share." I kneel on the floor next to my boys,

the spare

the mess that was my home. The guard dips his

*Frantic?"

to herself." He shrugs his shoulders and rolls

her

but he doesn't

for me. Immediately, I hear Samara arguing with no one. She stops when she sees

*The packhouse."

"Cooper?" She asks quietly

something to do with it,