The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 372

Mallory

“Something weird is going on?” I frown. I was supposed to be resting, but I was finding it harder and harder to stay still. Like the longer I was still, the more I thought about what I no longer have. I needed to keep busy.

From this window, I could see Dane, Damien and Brax pushing a man and a woman forward. I recognise the guy, he quite often works on the gates. But what I didn’t understand is why Damien was carrying what looked like a doll. A toy for Dorothy maybe?

Neah steps up to the window, though she keeps herself partly hidden behind the curtain. “No one is supposed to see me, remember.”

“Please just tell me that I am imagining things. Maybe I have fallen ill again and this is a dream.”

She pinches my arm.

“Ow.”

“Not dreaming.” She cautiously peers around the curtain. “Why is Damien carrying a pup?”

“It’s not a doll?”

“Doll’s don’t move like that.”

I look again and watch a tiny arm stretch out. But that’s all I can make out as they move further and further away.

“Maybe those Wolves had a pup?”

“I think Mako and Kira are due any day now, so it could be.” She shrugs her shoulders, “but actually, that’s not Kira… that’s…one of Raven’s nurses from the hospital. I think her name is Sienna.”

“But he never did that to Jenson?”

She shrugs her shoulders. “Jenson was his brother, even after the stuff with Blair, even when he did what he did to Raven. He couldn’t have done it even if he wanted to, but I know he had threatened Jenson with it many times over the years.”

I bob my head. I couldn’t even say it was cruel. I had seen Rogues do worse things. I had done worse things. A long time ago, I almost bashed Neah to death.

“But the pup, surely Dane won’t have that ripped apart?” I mutter, disgusted by the idea. I see Damien turn away from the Wolves, he starts making his way back this way. The tiny thing cradled against his chest and I breathed a sigh of relief.

“No, he won’t hurt a pup.” Neah confirms

I take my eyes off of Damien and watch Mako and Sienna dive towards the forest. Mako pushes her down just before the trees to give himself an advantage and dives into the greenery as she scrambles back to her feet. I watch Dane keep his hand up in the air. A signal for the Wolves to wait. Even Brax had shifted and was ready to join in.