The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0556

He follows me in through the small gate. I lead him straight to Raven. "Your sister." I murmur. "My first mate as a Lycan." I gesture to the headstone next to hers. It had no name and was merely here because he was a Black." Jenson, your brother, Raven's twin."

He listens carefully as I tell him everything that happened to them. How she died for Jenson and how he took over her mind and killed her a second time.

"That's impossible."

"And yet we watched it happen. Then I watched her die." I stare at Raven's grave. "There are things that are happening and we have no control over it. Things that seem to exist outside of what we know. And when you see and deal with a lot of unexpected shit, it makes you look at the bigger picture, it makes you look deeper. If things don't add up, it's likely because there is something else going on."

"I couldn't save Raven and she was my mate. I knew she was struggling but I didn't know how bad it was. She kept that to herself, her Wolf blacked her off from me. She gave her life up for her brother. Her love for him was stronger than what it ever was for me."

"Are you trying to compare yourself and Raven to me and Thalia?" He splutters

"No of course not. I'm trying to help you understand Danes point."

He frowns and walks by me. Moving to the graves of his parents. "He called you his brother."

"I am by oath." I reply

"Why you?"

He asked, I accepted. Him and Neah are my family.

had another brother. He could have come to find me."

you were and he thought you had been given to a family

a Kitson but Serkan ended up raising me in the

learn of Dane?" I

given him a sticker yet, but she also hadn't stressed out about him. I think she was still trying to figure him

Neah at the restaurant and who she was with and how much we looked alike, well,

introduced

looked at him as though he

knew the look well. I could count on one hand how many times she had been angry with him.

of each other was

at you like that?"

"No."

you to really think about

wish that everyone would stop

hold a finger

"Fine."

Either if you returned or not, her fate was sealed. That's what

"Yes."

a week and Thalia