The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0478

Dane

The others race forward. It was standard. They hunt, I give them a chance to track the prey down before I join in. Neah's blue eyes flicker to me. She is more than ready to go.

'Let them have their fun. He will still die.' I link her

She nods as howls and growls erupt from the forest. Birds frantically fly up into the sky, desperate to escape the camage that is about to unfold.

Silently I count to ten, as Blair comes running to Neah. "Please let me go after him!"

*You have your abilities back. Can you shift without going Rogue?" Neah asks. Blair doesn't answer. "Then I suggest you stay here."

'It's time for us to go.' I link Neah.

As she runs next to me, she shifts. Her clothes fall to the ground in tatters as her body fills out. Each and every time, it amazed me. And the fact she could still do it while pregnant was something else.

She rips through the trees with ease. Her feet barely made a sound as she moved. She pauses a few times and regularly changes direction. I let her take the lead. She hadn't been a part of a hunt before, but I knew how much she was ready to rip Cooper apart and I was more than happy to watch her do it.

fresh blood. 'He's trying to lure us a certain way.' 'Trying to survive.' I mutter back, pressing my

two Wolves standing over a dead female. One that had already shifted back to Human form. A sharpened branch sticking out of

of mine.'

roll her over onto her stomach. Written on her back

'Two?' Neah asks

each one of us out." I tell the Wolves and Neah. He's

individual could become Cooper's victim and they wouldn't necessarily

and it wasn't long before I'm linked by another to say they

there would likely be casualties, but three people this early in the hunt, is concerning. He was marking his kills and that pissed me off even more. And there could

follow. They went off in different directions, trying to confuse

form and step out into the small clearing. "Cooper!" I

blood." I speak to the forest. "You try to deceive us but it

pack will make you pay for the lives you took. I'm thinking we

Wolves and Lycans showing

scared, Cooper? You know you can't outrun this." I wondered if he realised there were people placed all along the edge of my border.

go far.' Damien links me and Cooper falls from the trees, landing flat on his back with a heavy groan. He's inches from me and there are already healing bruises on his chest. It was definitely him and not

Lycan form, squatting on a