The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West



Chapter 0462

I stand there, staring at her in some kind of disbelief. "We are cousins." I mutter

"Cousins?"

"That is how we are related. Your mother was my mother's sister. That's how you have Alpha genetics."

She creeps forwards, her fingers winding around the bars as she focuses on me. "Did you know her?"

"No."

"Oh."

*She wasn't spoken about, but my parents died when I was a kid, so maybe I just don't remember. Her name was Amelia."

*Thank you... hold on, you keep saying 'was'. She was your mother's sister. Her name was Amelia."

"She's dead."

Her hands drop from the cell bars. "Sounds about right. I assume you don't know how?"

*No. The book just had her birth and death date."

A small frown appears and her tongue glides along her bottom lip. "There is a reason you are telling me all of this, isn't there?"

help me kill your

"What?" she squeaks

need to repeat myself?"

understand. Why do you need my help?

doesn't see

you seriously trusting this

I want to see

come up to her temples, rubbing them. She slowly turns back to me, "If I

might give you a chance to live."

my words, "Cooper is smart. He always has been. He just seems to be prepared for anything. Or maybe he designed it so that everything works in

will he be prepared for his

hover on mine. "I don't know. He has always been in charge.

"How long?"

She pauses. "She says she

"Good."

least she has some sense.'

Samara whispers. "Do you ever get used to hearing the voice in your head? Like the random sarcastic comments? Or the huffs they make when they don't

to drive anyone around the bend. I

as he

"It will be."

packhouse." He

was hurt." I smile at him and he just stares at me. Emerson was usually on guard duty at the gates, not here at the dungeons. "It's unusual to see you working

could see flickers of annoyance. "I quite like keeping an eye on the bitch down