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?"

have to ask him that. He asked, I accepted. Him and Neah are my family. Black Shadow is a family."

could have come to

have to remember that he didn't know where you were and he thought you had been given to a

me in the end. If I can even

learn

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

saw Neah at the restaurant and who she was with and how much we looked alike, well, it wasn't hard to

you only introduced yourself

looked at him as though he

hand how many times she had been angry

was

look at you like that?"

"No."

want you to really think about the next question I'm going to

bad." He mutters. I wish that everyone would stop assuming she

hold a finger up. "Just one

"Fine."

were certain that Thalia was going to be killed along with your son. Either if you returned or not, her fate was

"Yes."

a little over a week and Thalia is still