Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
Neah looks at me, “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but don’t kill her. I need answers.”
“She killed my family.” I mutter coldly. It was the only reason I wanted to find them. To get some answers and then put lair down for good.
“So this is why you wanted to come here? To get your revenge?”
“You saw what happened to Dorothy. She also killed my mate, my parents and my unborn child.”
“And if you kill them, you will probably never see Maddie again!” Neah knocks again. “It’s Neah, I know you are in there.”
Blair rips open the door, her brown eyes hover on Neah before moving to me. She takes a step back, shaking her head as she pulls her jacket around her. “You brought the Hunter to my door?”
“You seem scared.” I mutter with a wink and Samara appears, pulling Blair back, taking her place on the threshold.
“It’s in the past. She can’t change what she did.” Samara mutters.
“Her time will come.” I reply and Neah elbows me in the side.
“She’s had everything stripped from her.” Samara defends “How?” Neah asks
“I told you, I don’t know. He drugs us with something, or maybe it’s done after he drugs us. You lose track of time.” “Right,” Neah mutters. “We have reason to believe that he was already in the pack.”
“So why are you here?” Samara asks, as she continues to guard the entrance. She had no plans to let us inside
“One of the female Lycans is missing.” Neah tells her
“If he already has her, you are too late. She won’t be a Lycan anymore. Because that is what he does. He punishes us by taking away our abilities. We don’t heal, we can’t even smell you. And you can forget about us even considering the idea of shifting, it’s gone. All of it.” She screws her face up. “We are Human.”
“Prove it.” I dare.
She turns around, “Pass me that knife.”
My hand moves to my gun as Blair hands over a knife. Samara swipes it down through her palm with a whimper She squeezes her hand into a fist until blood drips out the bottom. When she opens her hand to show us, the wound is still bleeding, no signs of it healing.
“You can stare at it all day,” Samara shrugs her shoulders. “When it stops bleeding, it will scab up and then take a good couple of weeks to heal and I will be left with a scar.”
Blair hands her a cloth and Samara wraps it tightly around her hand.
“So he keeps you prisoner. Where exactly?”
“North. It’s not designed to let people in or out.”
“So how did you get out?” Neah asks.
“I did what I had to do and escaped.”
I could see Blair over Samara’s shoulder. “What about you?”
“I… Someone opened the doors and I just got out.”
“Someone opened the doors?” Neah mutters. “As in, they let you out.”
“It seems that way, but I don’t know who or why anyone would do that. You may not want to believe me Neah. I definitely don’t deserve to be believed. Sammie was the one who wanted to come and tell you.”
“Someone let you out.” Neah repeats. I don’t think that she was paying attention to anything else Blair was saying.
“Yes. The bolts on everyone’s doors were released.”
She looks at me. “He did it on purpose.”
“He let me out?” Blair asks, “Why would he do that?”
“Take it from someone who knows it was a test. He let you out to see where you would go. You led him straight to Black Shadow.”
“He said he wasn’t interested in you.” Blair mutters.
“That doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in anyone else in my pack.” Neah growls
“You don’t know that.” Samara mutters as she continues to cling to the door, blocking our entry.
“You escaped.” Neah mutters. “She was let out.” She turns to me. “I have to link Dane, I said I would keep him updated.” Her eyes move to the women and back to me. “Don’t do anything stupid.”
I nod and she heads to the end of the drive.
“You think this is a set up?” Samara asks
“Given what you have shared so far, it’s pretty clear. You both lost your Lycans due to his scheming. I would say what he did to you was cruel.” “You think she deserved it?” Samara asks
“If it wasn’t for her.” I point to Neah at the end of the drive as she leans against the dirty Porsche. “I would be driving a knife through Blair’s heart and maybe yours. But even that wouldn’t be enough for what she did.”
Her grey eyes are wide with curiosity as Blair looks away.
“I know everything.” Samara mutters. “She told me every single detail. I won’t let you kill her though.”
“Do you really believe that you are capable of stopping me? It’s like you said, you have no abilities anymore.”
“I still have knowledge of your kind.”
I smirk. For someone who had lost her abilities, she wasn’t afraid of me. “Did you ever go Rogue?”
“No.”
“She did.” I point over her shoulder at Blair.
“I know.”
I raise an eyebrow, “That doesn’t bother you?”
“Do you see a Rogue standing behind me?!” She spits
Neah makes her way back to us. “Damien is doing a head count, confirming that everyone else is accounted for.”
“What do you want from us?” Samara asks
“Where did he take you?” Neah asks
“Nowhere near here.” Samara mutters with a frown. “But if he thinks there are potential threats here, he won’t take them too far. Just far enough that he thinks you can’t find him.”
“You’ve hardly spoken a word.” Neah glares at Blair
“Whatever I say or don’t say will be wrong.” She mutters and moves out same of sight. She wasn’t quite the as she was before. Almost full of sorrow it didn’t mean she was anywhere close to being trustworthy and I was even further away f from finding Madison.
I turn to Neah. “We should go, we have got as much as we are going to get.”
She looks between me and Samara. “Are you sure there is nothing else you can tell us?”
“No, I don’t……..” She trails off, frowning. “I already told you that he somehow does something that tricks us into believing he is our true mate.”
Neah opens her mouth to speak and I shake my head. They didn’t need to know that the woman taken was mated to me. If they are hiding anything, I will find out.
She turns, ready to leave, but suddenly spins around and forces the door back, startling Samara ang making her jump. Blair is standing at the farend of the room, tying a blue scarf around her head, trying to hide the short fuzzy hair.
Blair freezes, maybe she felt as though her death was imminent.
“Everyone wants you dead, Blair. You screwed over so many people, but Samara is right, losing your abilities is a better punishment. Death would be too good for you. Death would be too easy.” Neah declares
“That’s not fair!” Samara mutters. “We came to warn you!”
“She never wanted to come back here. She knew the risk would be too great. She came here because of you. Because you are her only ally.” I reply.
“You’re wrong. Being this way, it changes everything. And if Cooper thinks we are bad. What do you think he will make of you, a Hunter?”
Neah
“Let’s go!” Brax grabs my arm and starts hauling me away like I’m some piece of furniture that’s slowing him down.
“Let go of me.” I snap, prying his fingers from my skin. “I still have questions!”
“If we don’t leave now, I’m going to put a bullet through Blondie’s head.”
‘It was only a matter of time.’ Nyx mutters
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