The Alpha’s Contract novel Chapter 485

She pauses over her doodles and slowly lowers her pencil. She pushes her small frame off the floor and moves towards me with her brows knitted.

“The lady outside?” she asks casually

“Yes. I saw the way you looked at her. I know you were reading her.”

“She isn’t happy. She was a long time ago and something changed. It’s not dark, but it isn’t light.” Dottie pats her chest. “She hurts but she doesn’t want anyone to know.”

“Why did you run inside?”

“Um, she um,” Her eyes drift to Samara. “She is your mate but she doesn’t like that you have friends or me.”

“Dott…..”

“She will take you away from me.” Tears are creeping down her face as she blurts out the words.

I try to reassure her that no one is taking me away, but she runs to her bedroom crying.

“Do you want me to go talk to her?” Samara offers.

“No. Thank you for the offer, but it’s me that she is worried about.”

“I don’t understand. How can she read people like that?”

“She is a Hunter. She is biologically Brax’s child.”

She frowns. “That was the child Blair told me about.”

“Yes.”

“You have a Hunter in your house and you are not worried? Should I be worried?” she asks as her brows shoot up her forehead.

“She isn’t exactly like Brax.”

“Why does she call you Daddy if she is Brax’s child?”

“It’s a long story.”

“I’m happy to listen,” she offers “It beats listening to my own narrator.”

“Dakota?”

“Yes. She likes to talk, alot. I don’t mind it, it’s different and sometimes weird that she knows exactly what I’m thinking, but it’s reassuring too. Does that make sense?”

“Neah told me the same.”

“But we don’t all have the inner Lycan?”

“It’s not going to happen. I’ve already told her you are here with me and I am keeping an eye on you.”

“You don’t have to do that Damien. As much as I am grateful to not be sat on a concrete floor, you don’t have to be nice to me.” She wiggles herself back into the sofa, letting out a soft sigh as she enjoys the comfort.

“You are right. I don’t have to do anything. I’m choosing to let you stay here.”

She looks at me with wide grey eyes. “Thank you.” she whispers. “You should talk to Eris though.”

“I will if she is willing to listen, but she seems to be stuck on it’s her way and her way only. Maybe she got away with that in whatever pack she came from, but that doesn’t work with me.”

“Ashburn City.”

“Hmm?”

“Ashburn City is the pack she has come from. An Alpha has moved in and taken over, killed the old Alpha.”

“Who is it?”

“She’s already mentioned him. Alpha Silas.”