The Alpha’s Contract novel Chapter 227

He grins at me like a fucking idiot. “She’s found her beacon of light.”

‘Beacon of light?’ Aero quizzes

“What are you talking about?” I demand

Damien shakes his head at me,“She’s surrounded with a darkness that she is constantly fighting off. The darkness slowly crushes you. It takes over every inch of you when you are least expecting it.”

“While Neah fights it, there is no space for her to have the ability to be a strong and powerful Alpha. We can protect her, we can give her the tools to help her stay in control, but we can’t fight it for her. That’s something she has to do on her own. And she can only do that when she finds the thing that gives her hope. And it sounds like she has found it. She just doesn’t realise it.”

‘We didn’t give her hope?’ Aero sounds defeated. ‘We are her mate.’

‘I don’t think that’s what he means.’ I mutter back

“There must be something else we can do for her, that I can do?” I ask the Lycan staring back at me.

His dark eyes hover on me as he slowly shakes his head.

When it came to Neah, I often felt powerless. It was a shitty feeling, watching my mate struggle and not being able to do anything to help her. She was having more good days then bad but the darkness was still there, seeping into her thoughts.

Sometimes I would catch her staring into space. Her dark thoughts weighing heavily on her as her mind shifted through them.

“So you are saying that the twins will be the ones to save her?” I press