The Alpha’s Contract

“No!” Jenson snaps. “She wouldn't do something like that. She wouldn't put her own life in danger! She just turned sixteen.” “Maybe, maybe not. She was probably lured into freeing him.” Damien shrugs his shoulders “Is this where you tell us that he has some sort of ability to attract people?” I ask

“How do you think they killed people in that town so easily? None of the humans left. Bodies started turning up in all places. Most people would leave if that started happening, but they stayed. The humans practically walked to their death. It was only once the town was wiped out that I started bringing them food.” Damien shakes his head but his eyes are on my sister. "But she would have had to have been down there already.

“Stop talking about her! JUST STOP!" Jenson yells out. “She is still here. Raven hobbles over to him using the crutches. "Jenson. I'm really sorry, but she’s gone. We can't bring her back.”

Jenson growls at Raven and pushes her over. Sweeping up Jess’s bloody body, he holds her to his chest. He charges out of the hospital as Damien helps Raven get back on her feet.

“We should go after him.” She whimpers, her face creases up from the pain in her leg

“He needs space. He has just lost his mate.”

“But he...”

“Raven, give him space.”

“You can't do anything for him.” Damien speaks softly to her. “This is something he has to deal with.”

She slowly nods her head as he wraps an arm around her shoulders. I see her shrug him off with a frown.

“What does he look like in human form?” I ask. I had never had a chance to meet Salem before he rejected my sister.

“Well, I don’t know now. He used to have chestnut eyes. but those eyes that I saw were like black holes.” Raven whispers. “His hair matched his eyes.” A smile creeps up on her lips as she recalls him

“A tattoo on his neck.” Damien adds “Like yours?”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

He nods. “A family thing.

“About six feet tall. A wide smile.”

Damien growls as she continues to describe him to us. Again as he tries to reach for her shoulder she moves out of the way. The latest bit of news about luring humans to their death had clearly upset her.

Sending out a link to the entire pack. I remind them that the only guests we have in the pack are Damien and Mallory. Anyone else was to be taken out on sight.

“Stay in the house, Raven.”

“You think he will come for me again?”

“I don’t know, but this way, I know where you are.”

She nods her head, glancing back at the pool of blood where Jess had been. “Do you want me to tell Neah?”

“No, that should come from me.”

Raven hobbies out of the hospital, Damien 1 closely following her. She” was already snapping at him to’stay away 4 from her. They were having a muet rockier start to their bond than what Neah and I had. Content bélongs to ~

I hang back, not wanting to get caught up in their issues

Cleaning upthe blood, I try to decide how I was¢ going to break the news to eah. The twins were already- taking their toll on her and this news might just be the thing that tips her over. ~

By the time I make it back to the packhouse. Damien and Raven are having a full on argument, right in the foyer.

I side step ardund them, following my mates scent to the kitchen. She rolls her beautiful blue eyes at me as she stuffs toast in her mouth. When she sees my face, she lowers the toastand scowls. “Why is there bloéd on you?” Conten belongs to a

“He got out.”

“Roan?”

I shake my head

“How?”

I tell her our theory. Still not mentioning Jess.

“I can find him.” she mutters, brushing the crumbs from her hands

“No. He will be smarter this time. Damien is certain of it."

She shuffles on the chair, her brow knitting together. “How did he get out? He can barely walk, if he can even walk at all. “We have reason to believe Jess let him out.”

“No. She wouldn't... she....” She trails off as her blue eyes find mine. “She's dead isn't she?”