Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
I stand up and he takes the chair out of the cell. Abraxas swings the door closed and turns the lock. I take a tiny bite of the protein bar and stash the rest in my pocket. Who knows if I was going to get something to eat again.
“Wait, what do you want me to find out?”
“Use your brain.” Abraxas smirks. “You’ve done this shit before, shouldn’t be too hard for you to figure it out.”
I’m shut in the dark. It was shocking to realise how blind Humans were when it came to the dark. Sammie had been letting me sleep with the light on, just to give me some comfort. And the night we left el were street lights illuminating the read, but here, I could barely see my fingers in front of my face.
The door to the dungeons eventually opens, bringing rays of sunshine that briefly light up the dungeon. Iè see Sammie before I see Damien Her hands are bound, just like mine were Damien’s dark eyes find mine and narrow.
He pushes Sammie into the cell opposite mine. She keeps her head down, but I could see that she had been crying. Fake tears? I wasn’t sure. I knew that I had never seen her fully cry.
As he locks her cell, Sammie slides down the wall to the floor. I still couldn’t see how she might be a Lycan, but Neah said they could smell her. “Are you okay?” I ask quietly when Damien leaves. He had left the light on, was that for my benefit?
“We have to get out of here, Blair! You were right, we shouldn’t have come here.”
“What did Neah say to you?
“She was asking me about Cooper. I told her what I know but, I don’t think she cares. I thought she was supposed to be a great Alpha.”
“I guess she is just being cautious.” I sigh
“You weren’t in there for as long as I was.” She stares into her lap as she talks.
“Maybe she just doesn’t want to listen to me.” I mutter with a frown. “Maybe she thought you might know more. I guess now, we just wait.” “Screw that, I’m finding a way out of here.”
Klaus
Tying my hair up, I grab the clipboard to check the stock of medicine. Raven had always kept a thorough check of everything and if anything was running low, she would have Dane order in some. I felt like it was something I could do to keep her memory alive.
Being the new pack doctor was not in my plans, but I guess, out of everyone that Raven trained, I was the next best thing and the pack needed a doctor, especially with the amount of Wolves and Lycans here now.
Checking everything off, I make a list. I had used a lot of supplies with Mallory’s gun wound and now Maddie.
I hear the front door swing open and close, sticking my head around the corner, I see no one. I smell no one else. It must have been the wind. I was used to being alone, but somehow this place just made me feel more lonely.
Grabbing a fresh IV bag, I head to Maddie’s room, only to find her bed empty.
“Maddie?” I call out, maybe she had woken and was using the bathroom. “MADISON?”
It’s deathly silent and for a brief moment, I wonder if it’s her that went through the front door. That was until I heard the small moan. Pulling open the bathroom door, she scares the shit out of me.
She’s passed out, with her face pressed against the side of the toilet, a smear of blood against the porcelain. Rolling her over, I see she has managed to rip some of her stitches. Brax is going to kill me at this rate, it wasn’t the first time she had done it and last time he had threatened to cut my dick off.
Lifting her from the floor, I carry her back to bed and set up a new IV, clean up her wound and restitch her face, hopefully Brax wouldn’t notice.
As I finish, she mutters Cooper’s name. The guy that did this to her. It was worse than cruel. I thought being bound was bad enough. Then to learn that Neah was bound four times was just sickening, but this was…. There wasn’t really a word to describe it. Though he definitely deserved to rot.
Maddie starts to cough and rolls on to her side, reaching for the jug of water.
“I’ve got it.” I rush around the side of the bed before she knocks it over.
I fill the cup and pop in a straw for her. Helping her to sit up, she lets out a groan as her deep chestnut eyes find mine. “Where’s Brax?” Her words come out in a croak.
“He just had to go and help Dane, he will be back in a little bit.”
“I’m safe?”
“Yes.”
“I made it?”
“Yes.”
She nods and slurps on the straw. She was an odd person. Or was. To be a Lycan and yet not be able to
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shift. I hadn’t had time to do any research but I knew she thought it was because her captors drugging her with somethineer
Though, from what I had learned in the last couple of years, thad a feeling it was not the truth.
Maddie closes her eyes, “I have a message.”
“A message?”
“Cooper said that I am the message.”
“You are the message?” I repeat and she sort of nods her head at me and lazily brushes her red hair out of her face.
“Where’s Brax?” She asks again, her chestnuts peeking out of her sleepy eyes.
“He will be back soon.” I reassure her. “Is there anything I can get you?”
She to concher head. “I ran. I ran as fast
SI could.” Her fingers move lingered. “Why am I not healing?”
I was sure Brax had already told her. Though it was starting to sound like her memory had been affected.
“Cooper took away your Lycan abilities. Do you remember that?”
She frowns at me as her lips part a little. Slowly she nods her head but then it turns into a shake.
“You can’t heal anymore, Madison.”
“You’re wrong.” She snaps in defence. “I can heal, I’ve always been able to heal.”.
I lift her arm to show her the purple bruises that painted her skin. “You have been here for almost four days.”
She rotates her arm and shifts her gaze tover other arm which is just away. I ran. I ran here own veget as bad. “He pinned me o
It sounded more like she was trying to convince herself.
“Damien found you just outside the gates.” I confirm
Tears creep out the corner of her eyes. “Get some rest, Dane and Brax will probably want to ask more questions.”
Lying back, her eyes close and I step out of the room. Sitting behind the small nurses station, I wait for Dane. I had already alerted him and when he arrives, Brax is right behind him.
“She spoke to you?” Dane queries
“Yes. Though she didn’t say much that’s different from her previous conversations. She said she had a message and that she is the message but I get the impression she doesn’t remember everything.”
“She is the message?” He asks
“A warning.” Brax mutters. “So he is telling us how easy it was for him to do that to one Lycan, and how easy it would be to do it again?” His hazel eyes land on mine. “Is she still awake?”
“No. And I might as well tell you now that she got out of bed when I was doing a stock check. I found her in the bathroom and she had ripped her stitches. I’ve fixed her up, no harm done.”
“No harm done?” He glares at me. We had been getting on fairly well until he learned of my background, now it seems that anything I do or say tends to rub him up the wrong way.
“She is fine, Klaus has confirmed that.” Dane glares at him. He turns to me. “How much longer do you think it will be before we can have a proper conversation with her?”
“Normally I would be able to answer that, but I’ve never dealt with anyone in this state. It could be days, it could be weeks.”
Brax starts pacing while rubbing his temples. “We need more information on this Cooper guy!”
“Do you think you are the only one to think that?” Dane mocks him
“Neah can’t link him?” I frown.
“No, somehow, he has no ties to her.” Dane tells me
“Are you sure he is a Lycan?” It was a long shot, but I throw it out anyway. I was trying to add the pieces together and it was one of the things I could actually come up with.
Both men stop to stare at me.
“Of course he is, I could smell him when he was here. Blair said she could scent him the night he took her.” Brax tells me.
“But didn’t you say that Samara completely masked her scent to the point you couldn’t scent her.” I reply and he scowls at me. He didn’t like feeling outsmarted, he had told me that himself when we went out looking for answers for Neah. I ignore him and continue to speak to Dane. “So what if he has found a way to trick the mind, completely?”
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