Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
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I close my eyes and let my Lycan come forward, Feeling every bone crack as they change position. Tufts of hair sprout along my skin as claws pierce the tips of my fingers. I open my eyes as my body completes the transformation to see Evrin staring at me in silence. The first silence in hours.
His blue eyes are wide as he sits with his back against Dane’s chest, propped up by one of Dane’s arms. I was fully expecting him to scream, but instead, he reaches out with his hands, beckoning for me.
Taking a step towards him, I hear his bones crack. He lets out a quiet whimper as tiny claws appear at the tips of his fingers. A few minutes pass and Dane is holding a small black Lycan instead of a little boy.
Blair
Sammie moves around her cell. Her fingers feel every nook and cranny as she searches. I sit and watch. Maybe it’s because she didn’t know Dane, or know the power he held over Wolves, but I knew he would make sure that every possible escape attempt would have been fixed, especially after Jenson told me how Salem had escaped.
“There must be something.” She murmurs, to herself I think as she doesn’t even look at me for an answer. She had muttered the same four words numerous times over the last few hours.
“Let’s say you find a way out. Do you think you are going to make it anywhere without being caught?”
She stops and her hands fall down to her sides. Slowly her face became level with mine, though the dim light made it impossible for me to see her eyes.
“We are not that far from the forest. I looked when that guy brought me back here. There were no guards.”
I found that hard to believe. Maybe she just hadn’t seen them. Maybe she had been to busy yelling at Damien.
“Sammie, just stop, you will make this worse for us.”
“It can’t get much worse.”
“Will you be saying that when they send us out into the forest?”
“What is that supposed to mean?” She snaps
“I’ve been threatened with a hunt. That means you will be sentenced to that as well.” I frown
“A hunt?” she snorts and goes back to searching her cell.
“My mate… ex mate, told me that for serious punishments, Dane has his wolves hunt the person or people. They rip them to shreds while they are still breathing.”
“They act like Rogues?”
She had never really mentioned Rogues before and I hadn’t told her about that part of my life.
“Pretty much. I don’t know if they are eaten, Jenson never did give me that answer.”
“I don’t buy it. It’s probably just some scare tactic.” She shrugs her shoulders.
“I’m not so sure.” I mutter, breaking off a tiny bit of my protein bar when her back is turned and popping it into my mouth. It was vile, but I’m so hungry.
“And even if it is true. He wouldn’t do that to us, we are basically Human, we wouldn’t stand a chance.” Sammie tells me.
“I don’t think he cares about that.” I watch her press on the cell bars and she suddenly stops to look at me. “Have you got food?”
“No.” I lie. A part of me feels so guilty for lying, but she is doing the exact same thing to me, just not about food.
“You’re lying.” She snarls, “Come on, give me a bit.”
“I’m not lying Sammie!” I sit in the furthest corner of my cell. She must have scented the protein bar. If she was Human, there would be no way she could smell it. But I don’t ask I her. I wanted her to tell me things accidentally. It has always been a good way to catch people out.
Sammie shakes the cell bars, like she was expecting them to just pop open. They should be worried about Cooper, not us.” She mutters as she tries different bars.
“Do you think he will come for Neah?”
“Probably. I mean, taking away the female Alpha’s powers, now that would be an achievement.”
An achievement? It was a weird way to describe it. If she was supportive of Neah, I would expect her to say something along the lines of hope not, not call it an achievement.
“By the looks of it, he will have a battle on his hands.” I sigh, “There are a lot of Wolves and Lycans here.”
“There really are. How many do you think?”
I shrug my shoulders. “Dane’s pack is large regardless of the Lycans. And Neah called on everyone. I wouldn’t have a clue about how many responded.”
I see her nod her head. “A few hundred?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well how many did you see?”
“I don’t know. I wasn’t paying attention, I was just hoping that I wasn’t going to die anytime soon.”
“You need to pay attention, Blair. If we are going to get out of this, I need you to help me.”
I nod my head. “I will look later, I haven’t slept yet.”
“Fine!” She mutters in defeat. She drops to the floor with a thud as I curl up in the corner with my back to her. It might be a mistake but she wasn’t getting in here.
I’m not sure how long I had been asleep when I’m woken by Dane hauling me off the floor. He binds my hands together with rope and doesn’t say a word as Sammie watches on.
Pushing me towards the steps, I feel the knot in my stomach that is becoming too familiar. Dane glares at me and I keep my mouth shut while Sammie begs him to tell her where I’m being taken.
He doesn’t answer her and turns the lights off when we leave the dungeons, plunging her into darkness. But she will still be able to see. After all, she is a Lycan.
I keep my mouth shut as he pushes me towards the packhouse, hopefully that means I’m not going to die.
Leading me into the office, I see that we are alone. He unbinds my ropes and points me to the chair. “Sit.”
I do as I’m asked as he takes the seat behind the desk.
“Have you learned anything?”
“She thinks she can escape.”
He snorts, “And?”
“She made a comment about it being an achievement for Cooper if he could take away Neah’s abilities.” I shake my head. “I have been around a lot of different types of people, but to call something like that an achievement is….” I wasn’t even sure how to describe it anymore.
“Like she wants it to happen.”
I pull my bottom lip between my teeth and nod.
“Did you ask her anymore?”
“You want me to get information from her. I won’t be able to do that if she is on to me.” I drop my gaze, his crimson eyes were very unsettling. “Oh and she asked me about the numbers in your pack. She has already figured out that we are fairly close to the forest.”
“Anything else?”
I shake my head and place my wrists together, ready for them to be tied, when he walks straight past me to the door. Someone hands him something and the door is closed again.
“That’s a start.” He mutters, walking around me. “Now eat.”
He places a plate on the desk a few feet in front of me. It was only a sandwich and a glass of water, but it looked like the best sandwich ever right now. Even I hear the rumbling my stomach was making, but what if it was a trick?
“Are you rewarding me?” I ask as my eyes lock on the sandwich
“Yes. If you are weak or die of starvation, you will be of no use. Think of it as a contract. You are rewarded for completing your end of the deal.” “And what do you do?”
“For now, I won’t kill you.”
It was a power move. He knew he had all the control. “I’m not signing anything.”
“I don’t expect you to.” He takes his seat and when I bite on my bottom lip again he tells me to quit. “Verbally works. Your choice.”
“Fine.” I take a bite of the sandwich and feel my taste buds ignite. So much for Sammie saying I would need to accept some changes when it came to food.
Dane doesn’t speak as I take my time enjoying every mouthful. Who knows how long it would be before I got food again. I finish the water. “She will be suspicious.”
“We are on top of it.”
“What does that mean?”
“You don’t need to worry about it. Are you done?”
I nod and he wraps the rope around my wrists again. I keep my head low as I walk back to the dungeons.
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