The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 0590

Neah

"You still haven't said anything," Samara whispers as she eyeballs me.

"She's talking to Nyx," Damien tells her.

The longer Samara waits for me to talk, the more jittery she becomes. Shifting her weight from one foot to the other, slurping on her coffee or glancing over my shoulder at Damien.

"Dakota," I mutter. "She told you that you are my Beta."

*Yep. Look... I only know what she has told me. Honestly, it's not the end of the world to me, maybe her, but not me. I'm just grateful to be alive. You are still allowing me to settle in. Letting me live here. Just because she said it's true, I don't expect it to ever be something you acknowledge. You have Damien, and he is good at his job. And you have Eric." She gives him a big smile.

"That's why you are here, isn't it?" Damien asks. "Because of this Beta business."

"I'm trying to figure out some things," I sigh. I wasn't quite ready to discuss my entire thoughts.

"You are not planning on running off to help the others, are you?"

just like Dane, but no, I can't, and I won't. I've just had the girls. And I'm not

thought process

know what she is trying to figure out," Samara mutters. Her grey eyes hover on me. "I don't have the answer. I only know what I am told by Dakota. She thinks our fates have always been tied. That even though we never grew up together we were supposed to find one another. A renewed bond for

Damien

Beta, our bloodline is stronger and thicker than it has been in centuries." Her eyes shift back to me. "And

but keeps his mouth

are

mate bond?' I ask

have happened. Kitson blood

to respond. Instead, I

gave me my first real taste of freedom. There had

around the entire bottom floor, and there are still as many massive windows as there were before, maybe even more. The woodwork is painted in

Mallory mutters as she comes to a

my eyes on

he knows it is code for you needing time to

so angry when I kept things to myself. Now, I think it helps that he can get into my head and see what's

behaving myself.'

you that he does that?" Mallory