The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 465

Neah

“You left with Maddie and all that you left was a note.” I stare at him. “You come back and you say that you have figured out what was wrong with you, but you haven’t said what that is. Are you fixed Brax? Or are you going to deny it like everything else?”

“Okay, I get it, you are pissed!”

‘Understatement of the year!’ Nyx rolls her eyes

“I went home. That’s it. I went home hoping to find something and that brother of her’s” He points at the dungeon door, “Projected himself into my home and held a fucking kitchen knife to Madison’s throat. He somehow convinced her to inject something into me.”

“Maddie injected you?”

“At some point, yes. She doesn’t know when. She doesn’t even remember doing it.” He pulls a tiny black ball from his pocket and holds it up to the light for me to see, “Like I said, it has been dealt with.”

“What is it?”

“That is something I haven’t figured out yet. There’s nothing to it. It doesn’t do anything as I hold it. Yet when it hit the tray, it sounded like metal. But when it was inside of me, it was draining me. It was making me weaker and weaker.”

“Has she been forced to do that to others? What about her? Is that how she lost her abilities?”

He shakes his head at me. “I scanned her, there was nothing. Cooper is methodical.”

‘There has to be something.’ Nyx murmurs. ‘No one is perfect. Everyone slips at some point.’

“Are you sure Maddie is clean?” I ask

He nods at me. “He scares her. He makes her fidgety, nervous. She couldn’t even hold a conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled her of how easily he has manipulated her.”

He looks me up and down. “Now are you going to tell me what you are planning?”

“I haven’t figured it all out yet.”

“Right.” I could hear the scepticism in his tone. “But it has something to do with Samara, doesn’t it?”

I don’t respond.