Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“I can’t help but notice you didn’t mention yourself.” Raven pushes
“Sorry, I didn’t realise I needed too.” Weirdly, it was nice to hear Neah stick up for herself.
“You’ve changed!” Raven snaps and Logan and Evrin start to cry.
“A lot has changed since you have trapped yourself in a hospital with your traitor brother.”
I walk in to find Evrin clinging to
Neah while Neah is glaring at Raven. Logan was trying to push himself away from Raven. The pups could feel the tension and I’m quick to free Logan only to be met with a growl from Raven.
“You have no right to take my nephew from me.”
“I do when you are acting like this. I will protect them with my life.” Logan buries his face in my hair, his tiny hands pawing at me and as soon as he stops crying, Evrin does too. They certainly worked together.
I turn and face Neah, “There are more Lycans at the gate.”
“Is Blair one of them?” Raven demands
“I don’t know, didn’t see her. But I will say this to you. You are blaming Blair, and you are right in the sense that she is a royal pain in the ass Though if you remember, Jenson was the one who went to her if he hadn’t, she might not even be on our radar.”
Raven scoffs and takes a few steps back, shaking her head. “You were my friend.”
“And I’m trying to be now. But you are stuck. You said it yourself, you have missed out on so much. A lot has changed in a short space of time and you have missed it all.”
Her head turns between Neah and I. “You are supposed to be on my side. I helped both of you. I…”
“That’s what we are doing now.” Neah tells her. “You have been stuck and you have forgotten everything that led Jenson down this path. He is gone, Raven and that is something he did to himself.”
She claps her hands. “Some friends you are.” She storms out of the room and I feel a little bad for her, but she was forgetting everything and she needed reminding of that.
Neah sighs and I watch her squeeze Evrin a little tighter.
“She will come round, Neah.”
“I’m not sure if she will and I think that will get her into trouble. Trouble that none of us will be able to fix.”
The sad thing is, I think she is right.
I help her with the twins and we take them over to Eric’s parents house, it was on the way to the gates anyway. Athena gives me a quick hug and a wink which was a little different to her usual greeting. Could they know? Surely they couldn’t know it hadn’t told Eric?
At the gates. Abraxas is already vetting the Lycans one by one and the crowd of Lycans are growing rowdy.
Neah grabs my hand. Her eyes are a little wider than usual. “I can do this, right?”
Up until now, the amount of Lycans turning up had been smallish, some on their own, others in small groups except for Everwood, but their numbers weren’t exactly big.
“Yes, you have more than got this, Alpha Neah.”
She gives me a small smile and walks down to them and gives them her talk. It’s the same one that she said to everyone, well rehearsed but it worked for her and that was what she needed.
Damien keeps his eyes on the Lycans as he makes his way over to me. “I thought Raven might have followed you two down here. I hoped that maybe she would want to see how Neah is handling all this.”
“Have you spoken to her?”
“Of course I have, she is my mate.”
“That’s not what I mean and you know it. Have you spoken to her about how she is feeling?”
“She’s shut down.”
“I walked in on her arguing with Neah.” His eyes widen at my statement. “Neah was telling her that she had failed to remember what actually happened with Jenson. Raven wasn’t happy.”
“And where is she now?” He frowns
“She stormed off. Damien I know she lost her brother, but Dane did too. She is so fixated on how Blair wronged him she has forgotten that Jenson went to Blair. She doesn’t seem to remember that Jenson sought her out or maybe she is in some form of denial still? Though she shouldn’t be, should she?”
“I will talk to her?”
“Do you think she is responsible for the fire?”
“No. I think she knows that the pack would turn against her if she did that.” He sighs. “What has Neah said about my mate?”
“She thinks Raven is going to end up in a position where no one could help her.”
I wince as Abraxas shoots someone.
It was still not a sound that I could get used to. But it silences the bickering Lycans. They all stare att the woman bleeding out on the ground and one by one, they drop to their knees in submission all except two and they are dead before they even know they’ve been caught out.
I had been surrounded by death for years. I had killed, I had watched others kill, but when Abraxas did it, it was as easy as him picking out a beer from the fridge. It meant nothing to him.
Ryken and another couple of Lycans that had been here for a while, move through the crowd and collect the bodies. They will take them to the far end of the pack and burn them just like all the others.
It was a tiring process. An idea that was mine. But I guess I thought there would be less Lycans that would lose their lives. The thing though that no one had questioned is that no other bitten Lycans had turned up yet. Each and everyone except for me and Damien, were pure bloods.
“Do you think it’s weird?”
“Normally, I know where you are going, but you will have to give me a little more than that.” Damien smirks
“We haven’t seen any bitten Lycans. There has been none like us. Like not even the ones killed.”
“Neah didn’t put out an order. It was just a request. I’m guessing they haven’t come because they probably think they will be killed for not being pureblood. And that’s if they are even still alive. We don’t know if he has taken down any.” He nods in Abraxas direction. “He doesn’t mention them. I’m sure if Neah decides to make it an order, they will come. Why, feeling left out?” He muses
“No, just curious, I guess.” I inwardly sigh. There was always something that didn’t make sense. “Where are all these going to stay? We are out of cabins. And what about the packrun tonight?”
“It’s taken care of.”
The gun goes off again and a sharp pain radiates through my stomach. I see horror on Damien’s face and Eric rushing towards me. The sky rotates until I’m facing it and the men are standing over me.
Eric presses his hands to my stomach. I see the sheer panic on his face as I hear Neah order the Lycans drop to their stomachs. What about Abraxas, he had shot me?
**** TRIGGER WARNING: MISCARRIAGE ****
Neah
“Everyone needs to stay fucking still!” Dane roars as I look over at Mallory.
Eric is desperately trying to stop her from bleeding as he slams his hands against her stomach. Damien cups her face, forcing her to look at him rather than down at Eric and talks to her, trying to keep her calm. From here, I can see her body trembling, blood already pooling around her. Dane grabs hold of my face and turns it to his. “You need to get them under control. You can’t help Mallory otherwise.”
‘He’s right. We have to do this.’ Nyx mutters
‘I’m not sure I’m ready.’ I whisper back
‘You’ve got this. Just like we practised.’
I take a deep breath, letting my lungs fill to capacity as I tune into my Alpha abilities. I only needed this lot to listen, not the others in the pack and definitely not Damien as he tries to help Mallory.
Homing in on the connections to every Lycan in front of me. “Everyone, face down on the ground, now!”
Everyone drops and Nyx is bouncing around in pure happiness that I was gaining more and more control.
Only two men were left not listening. Abraxas and another male Lycan who was still on his knees. They were fighting. And I see what they are fighting over, a gun. It hadn’t been Abaraxas that shot Mallory, it had been the dickhead he was fighting with and Abraxas had already managed to get a few punches in.
Moving forward, I step between the face down Lycans. They were silent, including the kids while their hearts ran rampant in their chests. Not a single soul was trying to defend the bastard that had shot Mallory.
Abraxas manages to free the gun and points it directly at the shooter’s head. “She is pregnant, you dumb fuck!”
‘A pup won’t survive that.’ Nyx mutters
Anger floods through me and I see Brax’s finger twitching on the trigger. I had let him kill whoever was a threat up until this point. But he does not get to kill this asshole.
“Stop!”
Abraxas shifts his hazel eyes to me in confusion. “He is a threat! He shot Mallory!”
“She’s a Lycan Alpha, not a Wolf Alpha. And you are a dirty fucking Hunter. A disgrace to your own kind.” The shooter sneers like he somehow thought I was on his side
“You’re right. I am the Lycan Alpha. But you didn’t obey my order. And the one you shot was a Lycan. You won’t get a chance to try that again.” The shooter slowly turns to face me. His piercing green eyes stare into mine with disgust. “You’re going…”
“Who do you think let the Hunter in?!” There is a darkness to my voice. But unlike the other times, it brings a level of comfort. Nyx was standing with me and not against me.
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