The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0550

Tucking Neah into bed, she frowns at me but doesn't quite look at me. "I'm okay."

"No you are not."

"I just need to sleep." She tells me, closing her eyes.

*****

Six days of sitting by her bed in the hospital and she still hadn't opened her eyes.

Beneath the surface, the girls are active and move like crazy, but Neah remains as still and as silent as the day I brought her in.

Thad been alerted by Aero to go and check on her. I had walked in the bedroom to find Neah coughing and spluttering as she gasped for breath. Fast asleep, she was choking on her own vomit.

The nurses had tested her for every possible thing they could think of, but everything came back fine. They couldn't find a problem with anything in her body. It made it a hundred times more frustrating because there was nothing inside her that needed healing. Apart from being unresponsive, there was nothing else wrong with her.

Ilean forward, resting my elbows on the bed and holding her hand between mine. I had tried linking her, tried searching her mind, but there is just silence. And everyday I beat myself up over it. Flickering between anger and guilt. I had done this by not telling her about Klaus. I had hurt her to the point that she was no longer functioning.

"Neah, you have to wake up." I kiss the hand that I'm holding, desperate for a sign. Just like the other days, there is nothing. "The boys miss you. I miss you."

A knock on the door pulls my attention away. Mallory comes in and hands me a coffee. "You need to keep your strength up." She tells me

"The boys?"

as she settles into the chair on the other side of Neah. Evrin is a little more clingy than Logan, but he is okay. Eric is really good

"Thanks." I murmur

you don't need to ask us.

to leave with the others."

you and Neah. All the children will be kept safe. Ryken has been working on something for the past week, in the basement of what's going to be the new packhouse.

"That we know of."

Wolves follow you.

sipping on her coffee as I watch for any signs of Neah waking

tell you

"Sure."

this the wrong way, but maybe her body can't cope

when I look at

when she was carrying the boys and now..." she

She is a Lycan carrying Wolves. It's likely harder on her body. Using up all

She raises an

hundred percent sure. He says the scent is different, but yes. The boys are

"Or both." she mumbles

exactly what she said but