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?"

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

your thought process because you are not making any

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

Damien

centuries." Her eyes shift back to me. "And right now, I wish she would stop talking

keeps his mouth

we are

bond stronger than a mate bond?' I ask Nyx. 'Is that even

blood is the

me to respond. Instead, I leave and head in the direction of

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

the entire bottom floor, and there are still as many massive windows as there were before, maybe even more. The woodwork is painted in the darkest shade of black, giving it

mutters as she comes to a stop next

keep my eyes on the packhouse,

but he knows it is code for you needing time to think. I was just going to link you, but figured

things to myself. Now, I think it helps that he can get into my head and see what's on my mind without asking what I'm thinking about. As long as Nyx

behaving myself.' Nyx

bother you that he does that?"