The Alpha’s Contract by Taylor West

Chapter 617

"There are, but we are not close yet."

"If this were always her planned escape route, she would have killed herself and whoever she took," Neah murmurs

I didn't answer her because that thought had already crossed my mind.

It's not long before singing fills our ears-bad singing, like a cat being swung around in a sack. Neah drops my hand to cover her ears, wincing at the sound as we head toward the noise.

"Will you be quiet!" Eric yells at Tallen, but it just makes Tallen burst into a chorus of another song.

"Tallen!" Eric roars at her. The forest is quiet for a moment before Tallen starts singing the nursery rhyme "The Wheels on the Bus.' What was wrong with her? She hated nursery rhymes.

"Tallen, what the fuck!" Eric yells. "Stop it. Stop, you are hurting yourself!"

I drop Neah's hand and run to Eric. A chain is looped around Tallen's waist, tying her to the trunk of a tree, but her hands are free, and she is digging her nails into her face, splitting the flesh apart and laughing like a maniac at the blood.

"Tallen, stop!" I ordered, but she continued as though the order didn't affect her.

"I failed. I failed. I failed." She grins at me as she shreds her cheeks. "I failed. I failed. I failed. Now I die. Now I die. Now I die."

"Why were you going to take my pup?" I demand.

smiles and leans forward on the chain, giggling as she foams at the mouth,

suddenly pops her head up, and all the laughter and songs are long gone. Instead of bright, caring eyes,

gritted teeth,

very much Tallen's body, but

I growl. "Not

at me, "Poor little thing. I bet the last thing she expected was me to slip into her mind and become my

"I will kill you."

killing Tallen, Alpha Dane, not me, for I am far away, where you cannot reach me. Tell

"He knows the truth."

as

"You are fucked up!"

Dane, that isn't very

all the fucking same,"

was

up of living the same shit lives over and over where Lycans and Wolves

You think people will want to follow this?" I gesture to her

need to understand." She glares

you are going to force them into understanding? I know what you have done

ruined my plans, but alas, their bodies were lost to the ocean. Three Hunters in one strategically planned move, rather brilliant, don't you think?" The white foam dribbles down

didn't know that they were