The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 250

Sliding my tongue along my teeth, I refocus on the direction of Black Shadow and start running.

Cars stop as I speed past. I should hide, but maybe it’s time all humans learned about the monsters of the world. There are flashes from phones and screams ripple through the night air. I should care. Knowledge of me would mean knowledge of others and that would give her even more power.

My heart pounds as I run. Refusing to slow or stop for anything. I feel something that killing Rogues and other assholes never gives me. A sense of freedom with a desire that is buried deep within my core. A hunger too. A hunger that I hadn’t felt in so long.

The abandoned red car is the only thing that stops me. It’s miles away from Black Shadow.

The doors hang open, one swings as though it’s no longer attached properly. A flat tyre makes the vehicle drop on one side. As I creep closer I see the front end has smoke seeping out from under the bonnet. A massive dent like they had slammed into something.

The smell of blood has me drooling. I am so damn hungry.

It takes me less than a second to locate the blood and even less time to locate the source. They had hit a deer and I could no longer resist the need to eat.

My teeth tear at the flesh as I bury my snout in it. It rips apart so easily, sliding down my throat so perfectly and the blood. Oh, the blood. I could bathe in it.

“Are you done?”

My eyes snap up as I tear another strip of meat from the bones. Damien is standing there, his arms folded across his wide chest as he watches me. Mallory hovers just behind, yet my mate was nowhere to be seen. Where the fuck was he?

Reaching my full height, Damien continues to stare at me. He doesn’t flinch like the humans did or run screaming. He stares, completely unafraid. And why should he be? After all, he was just like me.

Though I didn’t stand a chance right now. There are too many. My time will come and I will rip them apart, devouring their flesh and finally take what should have been mine all those years ago.

I step back, keeping my eyes on the ones I could see. Letting my ears and nose figure out where the others are. I needed to get out untouched.

There’s a gap, and I’m quick. My large frame slipped through before they had a chance to get me.

Damien calls out to let me go. Not words I was expecting from another Rogue, which only told me that he had something much more sinister planned.