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?"

at me. “I scanned her, there was nothing.

something.' Nyx murmurs. 'No one is perfect. Everyone slips at

sure Maddie is clean?" I

me. "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

are you going to tell me what

figured it all

"But it has something

I don't respond.

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

his hand slips into mine and he

enough in the trees that no one could see us. "I know you would

and asked him to find out who it was

of the Lycans. He

hole in the tee is

down at my top. "His blade.

reaches out for my hand. His brows dip as a

you bring me into

moment. A moment you are not going to get while surrounded by

"I'm fine...."

not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed for everything to make

tree next to him