The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 141
“By this Damien guy?”
“Yes.”
“After what she did to me?”
“What she did was horrendous, I am not disputing that. And I am thankful that she didn’t kill you. But just like you are haunted by your parents death, she is haunted by what she did to you.”
“Good!” I lie back and stare up at the ceiling. “She deserves to be haunted.”
He doesn’t respond and finishes his shower as I lay in silence. Eventually, he climbs into bed, pulling me in against him. “I am not asking you to forgive her. I am not asking you to become friends with her.”
“I don’t understand why she is here.” I mutter, fighting the tears
“She didn’t have to help me find Jess, but she did anyway. If it wasn’t for her. Jess would likely not be here.”
“That doesn’t answer my question.”
He rests his hands on my stomach and exhales. “I don’t have an answer right now. Or at least I don’t have anything to say that will make you feel better.”
Sitting up, I stare at him, “You always have an answer.”
He doesn’t speak. In the darkness, I watch his chest rise and fall. It wasn’t like him. He always had an answer and that unsettled me as much as Mallory being here.
****
At the breakfast table, I sit my face in my hands. I felt like crap.
“Come on.” Klaus speaks softly to me. “You are nearly done.” He taps the book in front of me.
“Sorry,” I mutter.
“Dane said you weren’t feeling your best this morning.” He offers a smile.
“No one warned me about this side of pregnancy. And I’m so fed up of fucking ginger biscuits!”
He grins and taps the book again. “Try to focus on this.”
I read a few more sentences and look up at him. “Has he said anything to you?”
“About Mallory? No.”
“But he’s with her now.” I glance to the window
“He said he is showing her around.”
“Why?”
“I didn’t get a chance to ask. But I assume it’s so she knows where everything is.”
I take a deep breath and ask the question that has been plaguing me all night. “Is there something going on between you two?”
“I’ve been waiting for you to ask since I read your mind last night.” He smiles, trying to break my tension.
“And?”
“No.” He pulls me into his arms. “You are my only mate. You are the one I love. You are the one carrying my children.”
“Then help me understand because I feel like I am losing my mind!” I blink back the tears that are trying to escape.
“I think she can help you.”
I open my mouth to respond, but all I could do is shake my head and frown at him.
“Neah, if you are carrying Lycans, we need someone who knows more about them. It’s still new to you, it’s new to all of us here. She is not the person she once was. But she has been living as one for a lot longer than you have.”
Images of her appear in my mind. Her hands gripped around my face, her thumbs centimetres from my eyes as she slams my head back over and over. Pain shoots up the back of my head like it was happening right now.
“The others that have hurt you, they continued to hurt you. She left because she couldn’t handle what she had done and she has lived with that since.”
“She told me the same thing.” I mumble
“You don’t believe her or are you choosing not to believe her?”
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I am clearly coming late to this book …me definitely one of the more well written ones. I feel like Im reading a series though … like I just finished reading two books and now we are off onto another storyline. Getting used to “splutter” instead of “sputter” as a word, and still trying to work out the “Lycan” logic as Blairs explanation doesn’t really make sense given the initial explanation of how Lycans came to be … I do wish these were in physical form. I do love to flip back and forth on pages to reread previous chapters. So much arder on these apps....
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