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.

'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 is

female. One that had already shifted back to Human form.

one of mine.' Neah

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

'Two?' Neah asks

control by taking each one of us out." I tell the Wolves

any individual could become Cooper's victim and

wasn't long before I'm linked by another to say they had found a dead Wolf, this time with the number three

He was marking his kills and that pissed me off even more. And there could be more yet. We hadn't even found the

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

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

know you are near. I can smell your blood." I speak to the forest. "You try to deceive us but it

a bold move, Cooper. When it is your turn, the pack will make you pay for the lives you took. I'm thinking we start at your feet. Maybe a couple of toes and then we switch to

the Wolves and Lycans showing me their positioning. They had all figured out

placed all along the edge of my

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

squatting on a branch.