The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0547

Neah

"Athena is happy to have the boys another night." Dane tells me as he takes off his shirt.

"I should be with them." I frown

"Another night is not going to hurt them." Dane replies as I start to get out of bed. "And you need to rest." He leans down and softly kisses me. Lifting my tee, he tugs at it and kisses my bump. "Now tell me, why are you wearing clothes to bed?"

"Just in case." No one wants to be caught out in the middle of the night while naked.

"You won't need them." He smiles at me

I tug the tee back over my bump, "It's hard to rest when I know that Serkan is somewhere nearby. He can't have just disappeared into thin air. Have you heard anything?" As much as I trusted Damien, I knew he would link Dane and not me if there was a problem. Especially while I was supposed to be resting.

'It's like they have forgotten that we have been pregnant before. Nyx murmurs in annoyance

I know. But I guess with everything that happened last time, everyone is just being extra cautious.'

She huffs, though I felt the exact same. Apart from being ridiculously tired all the time, I felt fine.

After years of being left to battle through life on my own, it was still hard to accept that there are people who care for me.

finishes undressing. When he gets into bed with me, his hand plants itself on my lower back and he pulls me in closer, until

whispers in the dark. "And before you tell me that you can protect yourself, I

gas station, just the aftermath. Only Dane had managed to get

boys. If he wants you dead, he will

I mutter and see him frown.* Before that happens, I will

in had become a new habit of his. Sometimes I liked it, other

tell it was early. I had probably only been asleep

floor, trying to remember where the squeaky floorboards are as I tiptoe around them. I didn't want to wake Mallory or Eric this early, not when they had stayed up with us to talk

around the comer, I see him sitting at the kitchen table, casually drinking coffee like he

pressure of my claws against the

ten minutes ago. If you are looking for Dane, he is outside talking to Damien."

brought me here on the agreement that I would help you guys. That was the deal I was offered and I took

to my bump as one of the

figured this would be the

do that?"

Alpha and

clenched teeth as my bladder

his eyes. "She didn't believe me. But then again, why would she? I'm making her leader suddenly sound like a monster. Brax went because he said he isn't tied to the pack, they would be more

she's your mate." I