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?"

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

'No one is perfect. Everyone slips at

Maddie

her fidgety, nervous. She couldn't even hold a conversation with me without her

up and down. "Now are you going

haven't figured it all out

his tone. "But it has something

I don't respond.

say anymore." I watch him strut away

and he tugs me in the direction of

we are far enough in the trees that no one could see

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

or any of the

tee is from him, right?" Dane

glance down at my top.

a fallen tree and reaches out for my

you bring

you are not going to get

"I'm fine...."

Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed

the tree