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The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 290

Neah

Mallory guides a crying woman into the office. The red haired woman has her hands clutched to her chest, almost hyperventilating as a wide eyed Mallory ushers her into a chair.

“He can’t hurt you now.” Mallory tells her.

The bang made sense now. Abraxas had killed someone else. Someone that he had deemed unworthy to even meet me. By the mark on this woman's neck, my guess is the person was her mate.

“I’m sorry.” I mutter, knowing there would be no words to actually soothe the loss of her mate. She is most likely in agony.

“He’s really dead?” She splutters through tears.

“Yes.” Mallory offers her a smile

“Good!” The woman looked so relieved to here the confirmation. Now I was even more confused. “The bastard marked me when I received your link.”

“You weren’t his mate?” I ask as even more questions develop in my head

‘It’s a trap.’ Nyx mutters.

‘You think everything is a trap.’ I snap back

“No.” The redhead mumbles. “I was sold to him.”

I was starting to see why Abraxas had shot him. “You were sold?”

She drops her gaze, her long red hair falls down over her face “It’s not the first time.”

“You’ve been sold more than once?” Mallory mutters in disgust.

The woman nods her head. “When I received your link. I saw an opportunity. I told him I had to come. That you had sent an order.”

“He was a Wolf.” Mallory adds, explaining why the guy hadn't heard my link

“It was the only thing I could think of. But he marked me. Told me that he needed to keep tabs on me.” She runs her fingers over the mark on her neck.

“Why didn’t you just shift and kill him, Maddie?” Mallory presses.

The woman's brows knit together and she presses her lips into a thin line. “I can’t shift.”

‘Lies!’ Nyx snaps

“You can’t?” I ask while trying to ignore my Lycan. I was starting to feel like there was something seriously wrong with Nyx. She was so up and down. She made me question myself far too much. She constantly tried to make me see the bad in everything. Sometimes it seemed like I wasn’t just fighting the darkness but her too.

Especially when she started hating the idea of me trying to link everyone. Something she was on board with at first and suddenly changed her mind over.

Maddie shakes her head at me and fidgets with the ends of her waist long hair. “I knew you are going to ask me and I don’t know the answer.”

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