The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0465



Neah

"You left with Maddie and all that you left was a note.” I stare at him. "You come back and you say that you have figured out what was wrong with you, but you haven't said what that is. Are you fixed Brax? Or are you going to deny it like everything else?"

"Okay, I get it, you are pissed!"

'Understatement of the year!' Nyx rolls her eyes

"I went home. That's it. I went home hoping to find something and that brother of her's" He points at the dungeon door, "Projected himself into my home and held a fucking kitchen knife to Madison's throat. He somehow convinced her to inject something into me."

"Maddie injected you?"

"At some point, yes. She doesn't know when. She doesn't even remember doing it." He pulls a tiny black ball from his pocket and holds it up to the light for me to see, "Like I said, it has been dealt with."

"What is it?"

"That is something I haven't figured out yet. There's nothing to it. It doesn't do anything as I hold it. Yet when it hit the tray, it sounded like metal. But when it was inside of me, it was draining me. It was making me weaker and weaker."

"Has she been forced to do that to others? What about her? Is that how she lost her abilities?"

shakes his head at me. “I scanned her, there was nothing.

murmurs. 'No one is perfect.

Maddie is clean?" I

conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled

me up and down. "Now are you going to

figured it all out

in his tone. "But it has something to do

I don't respond.

to say anymore." I watch him strut away

his hand slips into mine and he tugs me in the direction of the

enough in the trees that no one could see us.

I saw the blood on your fingers and asked him to

or any of

the tee is from him, right?" Dane

at my top. "His

on a fallen tree and reaches out for my hand. His brows

did you bring

need a moment. A moment you are not going to get

"I'm fine...."

didn't say you're not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed for everything to make

the tree next to him and