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."

he was already planning a rebuild

are you going to do with Kade?" Mallory asks

want to kill him. But I know that is wrong. At the end of the day, he is a child that has ultimately been groomed. To kill him for that,

way

dip my chin in agreement. "I know they will find him. There is only so far he can run, even if

The asshole seems to be

my fingers, I could feel the very tips of

a brow at

on the floor next to my boys, kissing the top of their heads. "Could you watch the boys a

set up the spare room for you

their house, I hurry over to the dungeons, keeping my eyes off the mess that was my home. The guard dips his head at me and tells me that

*Frantic?"

herself." He shrugs his shoulders and rolls

her Lycan.'

he doesn't

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

*The packhouse."

"Cooper?" She asks quietly

had something to do with it,