The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 104

I had been afraid to shift. Afraid to become that monster that attacked the pack. But standing here, over the dead Lycan, I realise it had felt….. Freeing.

Footsteps come hurtling towards us. Alpha Dane appears with Klaus. Their eyes immediately go to the dead Lycan. Neither of them speak as their eyes refocus on me, taking in how I am only wearing a jacket.

“You shifted?” Klaus asks quietly. “Fully?”

I don’t move.

“She did.” Raven splutters. “She shifted and she killed him without hesitation.”

“Jenson?” Alpha Dane asks, his eyes momentarily leave mine to look at his unconscious brother.

Raven repeats what she has told me.

“Klaus, help Raven take him to the hospital.”

As soon as they have left, he pulls off his own shirt, replacing the jacket Raven had given me. It was longer, skimming my thighs this time.

His finger settles under my chin and he tips my face up to look at him. “You enjoyed it, didn’t you?”

I didn’t want to say yes. I didn’t want to tell him that I had never felt more powerful. I didn’t want to say that I would kill the Lycan a hundred times over if it gave me the same amount of joy that I had just felt. I didn’t want to admit the truth to him.

His lips brush my cheek, his hot minty breath grazes my skin. “You don’t have to say yes. I can read your mind.”

He steps away from me and grabs the Lycan by it’s ankles, dragging it across the ground and through the trees.

“Where….where are you taking him?”

“I need to get rid of him. I can’t have them littering my part of the forest.”

I follow him through the trees to a clearing and Alpha Dane quickly sets fire to the body. It goes up in flames quickly. The scent of burning flesh quickly ripens the air.

Alpha Dane moves away from the body and stands behind me. His arms loop around my waist and his lips quickly find the mark on my neck.

“How many more will come, Alpha Dane?” I ask quietly as thick smoke fills the sky.