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.

at a bush with fresh blood. 'He's trying to lure us a certain way.' 'Trying to survive.' I mutter back, pressing my nose to the ground. 'And it's fresh, so he

call for us. Winding through the trees, we find two Wolves standing over a dead female. One that had already shifted back

one of

of the wolves mutters. They both use their heads to roll her over onto her stomach.

'Two?' Neah asks

trying to take control by taking each one of us out." I tell the Wolves and

bad idea, any individual

linked by another to say they had found a dead Wolf, this time with the number

but three people this early in the hunt, is concerning. He was marking his kills and that pissed

the forest, his tracks become difficult to follow. They went off in different directions, trying to confuse whoever

out into

the forest. "You try to

a bold move, Cooper. When it is your turn, the pack will make you pay for the lives you took. I'm

movement, but it's just the Wolves and Lycans showing me their positioning. They had all figured out the

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. He could run the length of the

Damien links me and Cooper falls from the trees, landing flat on his back with a heavy groan. He's inches from me

up to see Damien in Lycan form, squatting on a branch. He