The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 139

“Tell me where he is!” Roan snapped just as my nose is filled with Danes' woody scent.

“I’m right here! And I suggest you let go of my mate.” Danes' voice echoes through me. The relief I feel hearing that he is home is unlike anything I have ever felt.

I’m dropped as Roan turns to face my mate. Jenson stands tall next to Dane along with Jess. And then there was Mallory, the girl who had almost beaten me to death.

“You killed my brother!” Roan screeches

“No, I didn’t.” Dane shrugs his shoulders

“I felt his death. Don’t lie to me”

“And yet it wasn’t me. It was a Lycan.” Dane speaks calmly, though I feel his annoyance

“Don’t bullshit me!” Roan screeches, grabbing me and pulling me back against him. His hand coils around my throat and he squeezes as I stare at Dane.

The music stops and I feel all eyes on me.

“It wasn’t Dane.” Mallory mutters as she steps forward with her hands raised. “There are Lycans that have the taste for flesh, it was them.”

“Bullshit!” Roan yells as he squeezes my throat a little more. “They are all dead.”

“Do you really believe that? I believe that Dark Ridge is your brother's pack, right? There is a place before Dark Ridge that has been claimed. The town is owned by Rogue Lycans. Your brother passed through with one of our kind as his prisoner.” she gestures to Jess. “He was never going to make it out of our town alive.”

Her brown eyes find mine as he continues to squeeze my throat. My vision is darkening. Her face was not the last I wanted to see.

“So you killed him?” Roan growls.

“No.”

‘Nyx.’ I whisper as I find it impossible to breathe

‘What about the pups?’ She whispers back.

‘There will be no pups if I’m dead anyway. Just the claws.’

Pain rips through my entire body. I could feel the claws pierce my fingertips as Mallory kept talking to him.

Reaching behind, I plunge the claws into his stomach. His hands instantly let go of my throat as he yells in pain.

My feet hit the ground and as I’m about to run, I lose my balance, landing face first in the dirt.

‘GET UP!’ Nyx screams at me

I couldn’t move.