The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 123

Neah

My heart is pumping. The adrenaline that’s coursing through my body had crept up like a slow burning fire. Igniting something deep within me. I felt powerful and all it took was Jess.

When I had found Jess, she was already trying to get inside a closet. Her words blur into one another as my own panic seeped in. Tears flooded her face quicker than she could wipe them away.

I did what Dane asked me to do, to keep her here. Yet I couldn’t help but peek over the window ledge. I had to see what was happening.

The clapping was weird. The Lycans slamming their claws together while staring straight at the Wolves.

‘This is all kinds of fucked up.’ Nyx mutters

‘What are they doing?’

She shrugs her shoulders at me.

I wanted to link Dane. Desperate for him to tell me what was happening but all I could hear was Jess, crying in the closet.

Pulling the closet open, I offer a weak smile. “They are not here for you. They are here for me.”

Her arms are holding her legs to her chest, just like the way I did. It was funny, why did we try to make ourselves as small as possible in a time of crisis?

“They….the woman, the one that brought me here, Cassandra, wants me to bring you to them.”

She refuses to look at me.

“Is that why you are here? Is that why you tried hiding?” I try to keep the anger out my voice

Jess shakes her head and then taps her temple. “Here, I hear her. It was like a whisper at first and now…..” Her soft blue eyes lock with mine. “Now it’s a demand.”

“A demand?”

Her head bobs up and down, “She keeps saying. I am your maker, you will obey me!”

Control, just what Cassandra has always loved and wanted.

“You are going to try and hand me over?” I ask quietly, realising why they had chosen to change a child.

“I…I don’t want to.” She whispers

I sigh, “You can’t fight an order. It’s ingrained in us to obey those above us.”