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?"

“I scanned her, there was nothing.

murmurs. 'No one is perfect. Everyone slips at

you sure Maddie is clean?" I

"He scares her. He makes her fidgety, nervous. She couldn't even hold a conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled her of how easily he has

up and down. "Now are you going to tell me what you are

haven't figured it

tone. "But

I don't respond.

clear sign that you don't want to say anymore."

doesn't speak, but his hand slips into mine and he tugs me in the direction of the

one could see us. "I know you would have had a good reason. "Where

dealt with it. I saw the blood on your fingers and asked him to find out who it was and to

me here or any of the Lycans. He made it very

in the tee is from him, right?"

at my top. "His

a fallen tree and reaches out for my

did you bring me

are not going

"I'm fine...."

say you're not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed

on the tree next to him