The Alpha’s Contract novel Chapter 273

Abraxas

It was almost uncomfortable how much she looked like Blair. I knew it wasn’t her.

Apart from the eyes, her soul gave her away. The darkness hovered in her, but she hadn’t gone Rogue yet. She was fighting it and she had been fighting it for some time, a long time.

No other Lycan I had come across had been able to fight it off for so long. Once the darkness sets in, they have weeks, maybe months at most. Yet somehow, Neah had been fighting it for well over a year, maybe even most of her life. Unaware that it was even there.

A Hunter’s instinct would be to kill her. To put her out of her misery. To end her before she does too much damage. But even I could see there was something different about her.

The edges of her soul are tinted black, but unlike others, the majority of it is bright. It shouldn’t be possible and yet, here I was, seeing it for myself. Like she was in a constant battle. She hadn’t won it yet, but she was trying.

They ask more questions, trying to get more answers from me about Blair. Mallory tells them that Blair killed my parents, but there is so much more to it than that. And that is something I didn’t share with anyone. But they wanted to know and they kept pushing and pushing apart from Neah who was quiet.

They didn’t need to know anything else about me. I came to do a job and that was all that mattered.

Neah stands and I find myself standing too. I tuck the gun into my waistband as Dane leans down to kiss her cheek. A similar gesture that I would make to my mate.

I wanted to speak to Neah alone. I wanted to see if the colour of her soul would change. “Can we speak?”