The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 25

“Neah needs to tell you something.” She smirks at him

“So why are you here?” He replies

“Support.”

He snorts at the word.

“I…..” I take a deep breath. “I told you my brother never spoke of his Wolf.”

“You lied to me?” He interrupts me.

“No. Nothing like that. I didn’t realise that everyone has a Wolf that is someone else.”

His eyes shift to me and he cocks a brow.

“I thought, when you talked about Aero, it was an Alpha thing. I…..” I glance over to Raven who gestures to keep going. “I didn’t know it was everyone.”

“And now you do?!”

“I never saw them at Moonshine.”

“You never saw them?” He asks curiously

I shake my head and tell him what I had told Raven.

“No one talked about their Wolf? No one ever shifted in front of you?”

I shake my head. I knew how stupid it sounded. I grew up in a Wolf pack but had never seen a shift, not until the attack here.

“It’s weird, right?” Raven asks

“Never?” He asks me again

“I never thought about it. I didn’t need to. My job was to clean and be beaten.” I didn’t mean to say the last bit, it just slipped out.

There is a flash of anger on his face. “Being beaten is not a job.”

For a moment, the room was silent and all I could hear was my own heartbeat pulsing through my body.

“My brother had a rule. Shifting was only allowed beyond the trees.” I shrug my shoulders. “I never went in the trees.”

Alpha Dane closes his crimson eyes. “They never shifted even when they…..hurt you?”