The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0528

Chapter 0528

Chapter 0528

Dane

Her hand slips into mine as the elevator carries us to the top floor. I pull her into me, leaving a kiss on her forehead just as the elevator comes to a stop.

The doors slide back, leading us onto a long hallway that was just as I remembered. Light grey carpets stretched across the floor. Small paintings lined the walls between the room doors all in matching frames except for the one right outside our room.

Neah stops to look at it, as I swipe the room key. Her hand pulls out of mine and she points at the boy in the middle.

"Is this...you?"

*Yes. My mother painted it. It was our last trip together as a family before they were taken from us. Jenson is on the left and Raven is on the right of me."

out at the waves on the beach I had

makes her think she's looking

here in years. I move from room to room, checking that everything was perfect and only stopping by the floor to ceiling windows when

you could see the beach in the distance. The sea only just visible in the darkness. Over to the west,

find Neah raiding the

planned, but if she needed it, then I was more than willing to wait. I had the rest of my life to watch her

nod. It was rare to see the fleeting fear these days, but there were still hints of her past that lingered. It normally showed up when she was completely exhausted. Almost as if she spends the day working hard to block it

the room service menu. Handing

look at it when she says

the one with

at

time she had it, I was certain she was doing it to just annoy me.

to get a slice down her throat before the

grabs a pillow and launches it across the room at me. Stepping out of the way,

hands in mine, I pull her up and off the