Neah
Cassandra glares at him. “You don’t want that.”
Klaus looks confused, he was the only one in here who didn’t know what I was, what Cassandra and I were.
I had no idea what Beta Eric was trying to achieve. She would show everyone what I would look like. She would show him the monster that I was.
Cassandra's eyes settle on me. It suddenly dawned on me that she didn’t know. She didn’t know the mark from Alpha Dane had broken my binding. That was why she was holding back.
Everything that Devon had said about keeping it hidden from me was starting to make sense. They didn’t want me to know the truth.
“I will come willingly.” She mutters
“Good.” Beta Eric and Klaus speak in unison.
“Klaus, I’m taking Neah with me. Clean up the mess in here. If this gets out. We will have even bigger problems.”
He nods his head. Grabbing hold of Cassandra. The smell of iron is still thick but I couldn’t see where it was coming from.
“She killed the shop assistant.” Beta Eric mutters quietly to me, like he was reading my mind. “What you are smelling is a large amount of blood.”
Cassandra giggles as Beta Eric pushes her forward. The van was parked at the end of the alley in the opposite direction of the busy high street. Cassandra gets in willingly and something just felt off.
Beta Eric slams the doors, locking her inside.
“Come on, you can sit up front with me.”
“Some….somethings wrong.”
He cocks an eyebrow at me and looks around. “What do you mean?”
I look up and down the alley, trying to make sense of my gut feeling. Beta Eric follows my gaze. “No one else is here.”
“Are you…sure?” My stomach ties itself up in knots. Cassandra hadn’t tried hitting me, which was a first for her. “They never left the pack without each other.”
“What are you talking about? Cassandra was alone when she tried to poison us.”
“At the packhouse. But when they left, it was always together.”
Devon had fallen out of a tree. I look up to the top of the buildings. There was nothing.
When the door to the bookshop swings open. Trey was dragging Klaus along the ground towards us by his long hair.
“I will give you him in exchange for my mate.” He growls, his eyes locking on me.
Beta Eric’s hand is latched around my wrist again as he holds me by his side. “Is he even alive?”
“Barely. But if you take him now, he might just recover.”
“Why?” I whisper. Looking at the trail of blood that had followed them.
He sneers at me as I ask him the question and refocuses on Beta Eric. “You have a decision to make and I suggest you make it quickly.”
Alpha Dane is waiting at the packhouse when we arrive. He waits for me to get out of the van when he grabs my face and forces me to look at him.
“Are you hurt?” He demands
“No.”
“Don’t lie to me, Neah.”
“She…she didn’t touch me.”
He pulls me in against his hard chest, locking his arms around me. “I should have trusted my instincts to not let you go.”
"You said....you said it was up to me."
"It was, I should have known better with them both still out roaming the country."
“I don’t think she knew.” I mumble against him.
“What do you mean?”
“Beta Eric challenged her to shift. She…she looked at me. I don’t think she knew that your mark broke my binding.”
“She should have scented you. Or maybe she was confused. It’s been a long time since you were first bound. Maybe she mistook your scent for Klaus’s.”
“Make sure Klaus gets seen too.” He calls to Beta Eric. “Raven won’t be back for a while, but there will be someone else over at the hospital.”
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The readers' comments on the novel: The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West)
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....
I love this book. I wish there were more chapters. I read this all in a week. I know life outside of writing is more important. I will just sit and wait for more to be released. I will support you always Taylor. Thank you for sharing your talents....
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