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?"

are my family. Black Shadow is a family." don't

brother. He could have come

didn't know where you were and he

Kitson but Serkan ended up raising me in the end. If I can even call

you learn

even when Dottie was pestering him. She hadn't given him a sticker yet, but she also hadn't stressed out about him. I think she was still

much, but when I saw Neah at the restaurant and who

you only introduced

at him as though he was

one hand how many times she had been angry

each other was on a

ever look at you like

"No."

really think about the next question

I wish

a finger

"Fine."

certain that Thalia was going to be killed along with your son. Either if you returned or not, her fate was sealed. That's what you said. Serkan has made an

"Yes."

a little over a week and Thalia is still alive, what does