The Alpha’s Contract novel Chapter 460

They circle the house, taking it in turns. I couldn’t stand it any longer. Slipping out of bed, I silently grab the rifle that I stored in my wardrobe and creep up towards the window.

Aiming at one, I don’t fire immediately. I watch as they talk to each other in hushed, gravelly voices. They spoke in code too and just like that, they leave. Disappearing behind the empty house opposite mine. Unusual behaviour for Rogues, they didn’t usually care about a locked door or window.

I watch until the sun rises, but they don’t come back.

“What are you doing?” Madison asks with a yawn.

“There were Rogues here last night.” I’m not going to lie to her.

“You didn’t wake me?”

“They didn’t do anything. It was more like they were looking for someone.”

“That’s not normal, is it?”

“No.”

“Were they looking for you?” she asks

“I’m not sure.”

Her eyes cast a glance over the rest of the room. Almost like she expected to see Cooper here. She shivers and quickly gets dressed. “Can we go back to Black Shadow now?”

“Sure.”

*****

Madison is quiet in the car. Brining her with me had been a mistake, but without her. I never would have got that shit out of my back.

“I will keep you safe.” I mutter and place my hand on her thigh but she pulls it away.

“You don’t know that.”

“I know that I want to protect you. I know that I can now I’m back to full strength.”

“He made me inject something into you without my knowledge. How can you keep me safe from that? How do I know that this isn’t a dream created by Cooper?”

I slow the car to see a boy with blonde ringlets running in our direction. His feet pound the pavement, sweat drips off of him as he eagerly looks around. Ignoring the cars passing him.

“Why would he be out here, alone?” Madison asks.

I pull the car over and the moment I step out. He tries to pick up speed, running away from me.

It takes two seconds to grab him. “Where do you think you are going?”

The little shit tries to kick me in the balls.

“I don’t think so, get in the fucking car.”

“You can’t tell me what to do. I hate you.”

I glare at him and he drops into silence. The kid certainly did have a darkness about him.

“Get in the car.” We were only a couple of miles out from the pack, so he had made it quite far, but who was he running from?