Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Contract Mistress: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

GIDEON’S POVThe pit was cold and dark—so dark that I couldn’t make out a single thing, even with my heightened vision. It felt like I’d been down here for days, but I knew it couldn’t have been more than hours.I tried navigating through the darkness, only to step on something hard. I reached down to it—a skeleton, or at least I thought it was. I tried finding a wall but after minutes of walking and finding nothing, I gave up.“Gideon,” came a voice from the darkness.“Who is that?” I called out. All the while I’d believed I was alone in here; turns out I wasn’t. A woman’s voice called my name again, and I turned to the direction I’d heard the voice, walking towards it but I found no one. “Gideon,” this time it was the voice of a child and it was right behind me. I reached into the darkness and this time, I grabbed something.“Who are you?” I questioned, but the next sound it made was inhumane, leaving me wondering if it had actually been a child in the first place.Just then, a l

ELOISE’S POV“…and they lived happily ever after.” I finished to find Layla already asleep. I watched her with a smile on my face, she truly was an angel—my little angel. I placed a kiss on her forehead before putting down the book and turning off the lamp.I stepped outside the room, taking a deep breath.For the past two days I’d done my best to keep myself occupied, but the few times I was finally alone with nothing to do, I found my thoughts drifting back to Cassian. The worry was there, no matter how much I tried to pretend like everything was fine.It has been two days already; he’s supposed to be back by now. I let out a shaky breath as I headed to the bathroom.The past two days without Cassian had felt… strange. Strange that I had to wake up each day to his absence. Twice, I’d caught myself wishing a ‘good morning,’ to an empty bed. I hadn’t realized how much I depended on him until now and gods did I miss him. I found myself staring wishfully outside the window, as if hopin

CASSIAN’S POVDreams were supposed to remain just that, dreams. And yet it was the girl from my dreams. This time though, it wasn’t a smile on her face, no, she had tears streaming down her face as she ran towards me and like my legs had a mind of their own, I made my way to her. When she got close, she… hugged me. She hugged me the way one held someone they’d known all their life, and what was even more surprising was the fact that no pack member looked particularly surprised by her actions.Then, she’d escorted me back to my chamber, but to my surprise she stepped in after me, looking as comfortable as one would be in their own home.“I thought you were dead,” she cried, and I couldn’t help the strong urge I felt to comfort this stranger. “You’re really here,” she said, running her hands over me. The only woman who’d been that bold was Rosalia, my mate, and she was dead. “I missed you so very much—you have no idea how much I feared you wouldn’t return to me, but you did—you kept to

I knocked on the door to Jefferson’s room, but there was no response. I was about to knock again when the door was pulled open, revealing a freshly out-of-shower and neatly-shaved Jefferson.“Hey,” he said, surprised to see me.“Can I come in?”“Y—yeah, I mean of course.” He stepped aside and I walked in.“I came to check on Layla.” I’d asked that she stayed overnight with him as I didn’t know if this Cassian was ready to have her around. There was a brief look of disappointment on his face, but he quickly masked it.“She’s still asleep,” he said, motioning to the inner room. “I could wake her—”“No, there’s no need for that.” “I heard about Cassian.” He said, “I’m glad he survived.” I nodded. “Yes, me too.”“You don’t look so happy.”“I am—really, it’s just…” I shook my head, “It’s nothing.”“Eloise, you know you can talk to me, right?”I let out a breath. “There’s something wrong with him, the Council—they messed him up and… he doesn’t remember me.”“What do you mean?”“I mean,

CASSIAN’S POVI’d been heading into my office when I spotted her. She knocked on the door to a guestroom—only, someone was inside. Jefferson Scott. The first thing I wondered was what he was doing here. But I figured he wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t agreed to this.I tried reaching for the anger I once felt whenever I saw him, but there was nothing, and while I found that very strange, it was more proof that Eloise was right, a part of me was missing.The look in Jefferson’s eyes was one I'd seen before, it was of a man who was madly in love. Eloise stepped into the room, shutting the door behind him.She’d told me he was the father of her daughter and they’d separated, but there didn’t seem to be even an ounce of animosity between them, on the contrary, they seemed comfortable around each other.A flicker of jealousy rose in my chest. Jealousy that she was with him, and not with me and that made zero sense because until yesterday, I didn’t even know her. I thought about last night, h