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?"

scanned her, there was nothing. Cooper is

'No one is perfect. Everyone slips

you sure Maddie is clean?" I

even hold a conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled her of how

you going to tell me what you

haven't figured it all

the scepticism in his tone. "But it has something

I don't respond.

want to say anymore." I watch him

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

no one could see us. "I know

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

any of the

tee is

glance down at my top. "His blade. Brax shot

reaches out for my

bring

moment. A moment you are not going to get while

"I'm fine...."

say you're not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet

sit on the tree next to him and