The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0548

He stares back at me. "I know that. And that is why I am confused by her reaction. Now she refuses to speak to me. I have no idea if Quinn is okay. I don't know what is happening up there. Though I do know they are alive."

"Why is she refusing to accept what you are saying?"

"Your guess is as good as mine. And I don't think I'm going to know until she is here." His tattooed hand wraps around the mug and he takes a long swig.

"Remind me how you knew you were mated to her." I press

'Shit, do you think she tricked him?' Nyx whispers. Just like Cooper did it to the others?" We are about to find out."

He rolls his eyes at me, "I was coming back from a run and she was just walking up the road. Her scent hit me like a tonne of bricks. She denied it, but in the end, she couldn't fight it." He stops and looks at me. "Why are you asking me this, when you already know? Do you think I'm lying?"

"Curiosity." I mutter. "You had a set of twins?"

He dips his head again.

"What happened to the other one?"

"Thalia..." He closes his eyes. "She was at home with Jarret, alone. I had taken Quinn to run some errands. The boys were a year old but Jarret was acting more clingy than usual. He wanted Thalia and no one but Thalia. If I hadn't taken Quinn with me, we might have lost them both."

out a chair and lower myself into it. Quietly waiting for

but the healers could find nothing wrong. Serkan said it was probably a phase." He shakes his head. "I shouldn't have gone out." He lets out a heavy sigh and closes his eyes. "Jarret had finally settled and Thalia fell asleep. An alarm went off and when I raced back, our house was a ball of orange flames. Thalia escaped with just a burn mark up her neck and face. Jarret didn't survive." His face hardens. You wanted to hear the story, are you happy?" He stares at me. "Is that

sorry." I mutter, I couldn't imagine losing any one of my children. But what if the story he is telling is

Nyx tells me, 'She can control fire,

you saying she shouldn't? I ask her,

weird ability to have if it

kind of parent would do that, but

a lot we still don't

Hunter, but because he could research it. He would know where to look. I

talking to your Lycan?" Silas asks.

about Nyx. "What happens

has a different

need to speak to Dane." I don't know why I was justifying myself to him, this wasn't his

"I will be here."

while Dane has

by one

now, unfortunately." Dane

need to talk to