The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 200

Dane

Taking a seat in the large chair, I take in the shadows of the grounds. It had been a week since Damien had returned and still, there was no sign of Salem. Maybe that was a good thing. Maybe he realised that he couldn’t get what he wanted from us. but until I knew more, the grounds would be guarded.

Turning my head back over my shoulder, I see that Neah is still fast asleep, huddled up into a ball with her hands cupping her bump. Unbothered about me not lying next to her.

‘She looks so peaceful.’ Aero mutters

‘She’s beautiful.’ I whisper back to my Wolf.

With no sign of Salem, she had been so much calmer. Raven insisted that she was at the stage in her pregnancy where she had more clarity. Even if it was temporary.

And I was more than happy, there was a moment where I thought I would lose her to the darkness.

The very darkness that I enjoyed seeing in her.

Her heart rate changes and she stretches out. “You’re watching me again.” She mutters sleepily yet keeps her eyes closed.

“I will never stop watching you.”

She doesn’t answer and the beat of her heart slows telling me that she had fallen back into a slumber.

My eyes move up to the clock, it was coming up to four in the morning and the Wolves on guard would be swapping over soon.

There’s movement over the far side of the grounds and as he steps out of the shadows, I see Klaus heading this way, books under his arms as he quickened his pace.

Groaning, I push myself up and move to the bed, kissing Neah on the cheek. She doesn’t wake, but a small smile spreads across her face. A kiss was all she would let me have at the moment, insisting that being pregnant made sex uncomfortable. When the twins are here, I will remind her of everything she has been missing out on.

Slipping out the door and down the stairs, I find Klaus with his hand ready to knock on my office door.

“Klaus it is four in the morning.”

“I’m sorry, Dane, but this couldn’t wait.” He is practically grinning from ear to ear.

I gesture for him to enter the office and he quickly drops the books on my desk. “You know how it was really hard for me to find information on Neah and other Lycans. That the only information was from a long time ago and only snippets of literature.”

“I remember Klaus.” I yawn

“Remember what Jess said, about the humans having stories.”