The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 478

Dane

The others race forward. It was standard. They hunt, I give them a chance to track the prey down before I join in. Neah’s blue eyes flicker to me. She is more than ready to go.

‘Let them have their fun. He will still die.’ I link her

She nods as howls and growls erupt from the forest. Birds frantically fly up into the sky, desperate to escape the carnage that is about to unfold.

Silently I count to ten, as Blair comes running to Neah. “Please let me go after him!”

“You have your abilities back. Can you shift without going Rogue?” Neah asks. Blair doesn’t answer. “Then I suggest you stay here.”

‘It’s time for us to go.’ I link Neah.

As she runs next to me, she shifts. Her clothes fall to the ground in tatters as her body fills out. Each and every time, it amazed me. And the fact she could still do it while pregnant was something else.

She rips through the trees with ease. Her feet barely made a sound as she moved. She pauses a few times and regularly changes direction. I let her take the lead. She hadn’t been a part of a hunt before, but I knew how much she was ready to rip Cooper apart and I was more than happy to watch her do it.

‘He’s cut himself.’ Neah murmurs as she stops at a bush with fresh blood. ‘He’s trying to lure us a certain way.’

‘Trying to survive.’ I mutter back, pressing my nose to the ground. ‘And it’s fresh, so he is nearby.’

Nearby howl’s call for us. Winding through the trees, we find two Wolves standing over a dead female. One that had already shifted back to Human form. A sharpened branch sticking out of her chest.

‘She was one of mine.’ Neah growls

‘That’s not all.’ One of the wolves mutters. They both use their heads to roll her over onto her stomach. Written on her back in Cooper’s blood is the number two.

‘Two?’ Neah asks

‘He’s killed someone else. He’s trying to take control by taking each one of us out.’ I tell the Wolves and Neah. ‘He’s marking his kill count.’

‘Stick together’ I add. Splitting up was a bad idea, any individual could become Cooper’s victim and they wouldn’t necessarily see him coming.

I look up to see Damien in Lycan form, squatting on a branch. He casually puts a hand up to me.

Cooper continues to lie on the ground. After a few seconds, he starts laughing. “You don’t get it, do you?” He muses

“What is there to get?” I step on his ankle and he tries to kick me with his other leg. “You killed three members of the pack.”

“They were going to kill me. You never said I couldn’t kill anyone. You should be more clear when it comes to the rules, Alpha Dane.”

I press on his ankle with my entire weight and watch him screw up his face in pain.

“Maybe you are right. Maybe I should have been more clear.” I mock and take my foot off of him. I wave everyone forward. I see the panic settle in as he realises there is no way out.

“I was just saving them!” He shouts out as several Wolves grab hold of his limbs and start pulling.

‘Just pull until they pop out of the joints.’ I want to enjoy every moment of this