The Alpha’s Contract novel Chapter 186

Damien

I fucked up.

I could hear her heavy breathing coming from the otherside of the door. She was so angry with me. It might have been funny if I hadn’t guessed what her thoughts meant.

I was an idiot.

I push on the door a little. It doesn’t budge and from the shadow under the door, I would say she is leaning against the door to make sure I don’t come in. Though I could if I wanted too. It wouldn't take much to make her body slide across the tiles.

“Raven.”

“I have nothing to say to you.” Her answer is short and sharp. Her words laced with spite. She was so angry that there weren’t even any tears.

“I…” Would she believe me if I told her the truth

Jealousy was not something I had really felt before and everytime her mind went to him, I just wanted to remind her that it was me she was mated to. That the spawn who rejected her, did just that.

It wasn’t even him that I was jealous of, it was the fact she was thinking about another man, if you could even call him that.

“I’m sorry.” I mutter through the door. I already knew it would take more than a couple of words to make it up to her.

She shuffles away from the door, and I watch the handle turn. She pulls it open no more than an inch. Peering through the small gap at me. “You are shit at apologies.”

“I don’t usually apologise.”

I wanted to push the door open and pull into my arms, though the way she is blocking the door tells me she would either be thankful, or she would punch me and poke my eyes out. It was impossible to tell.

“I don’t want him. You have to understand that. He is on my mind because he is fucking with my head. The blood on the windows and seeing him… He is not the man I remember which makes it even more confusing. And that definitely does not mean I want to sleep with him!”

“I know that now.”

She screws her face up. “Someone from the pack?”

“That’s just it, it was human and I’m guessing, what was thrown at your window was also a part of that same body.”

She pulls back from me and hobbles to the bed, slowly sinking herself down into the mattress. I watch her try to compose herself. “Uh, he would have had to leave the grounds to find a human.”

“Unless they wandered into the forest.”

“No, that doesn’t happen. We are too far……” she trails off, looking at my face. “I have lived here all my life and humans don’t just wander in. Has Dane told you that has happened?”

I nod.

“Did he kill them?”

“No, at least I don’t think so. He said he tells them that it is private property and they will be sued for trespassing if they don't leave.”