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?"

I won't. I've just had the girls. And I'm not Cooper. I can't just

try and explain your thought

am told by Dakota. She thinks our fates have always been tied. That even though we never grew

Damien

bloodline is stronger and thicker than it has been in centuries." Her eyes shift back to me. "And right now, I wish she would stop talking because it makes me sound like I'm trying to make a decision for you. Which

snorts but keeps

what we are thinking.' Nyx

a mate bond?' I ask Nyx. 'Is

things have happened. Kitson blood is the backbone

could feel Damien and Samara staring at me, waiting for me to respond. Instead, I leave and head in the

larger than our old house. A house that gave me my first real taste of freedom. There had been so many deaths inside of it that maybe a new house

before, maybe even more. The woodwork is painted in the darkest shade of

mutters as she comes to

my eyes on the

air, but he knows it is code for you needing time to

can get into my head and see what's on my mind

myself.'

you that he