Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Because yesterday, she was mostly asleep again. I think the bastard drugged her.” Brax seethes
I glance at the door that leads out to the bottom of the stairs. “Shit!” I hadn’t been paying attention to my mates movements and as I move to the door and pull it open, I find Neah standing on the other side.
“Klaus is gone?”
Klaus
“Why are you doing this?” I stare up at him as he strides back and forth. I still felt a little dizzy, but it was just like when I was a kid and my parents had me bound. I was just a little weaker. It was fine, nothing I couldn’t handle.
“Do you always ask so many questions?” He growls. He keeps checking the window of the old cabin, as though he was expecting someone to be following us. No one knew that I had left, though it would only be a matter of time before someone figures it out.
“Pretty much. It’s what I’m known for in Black Shadow. I like knowledge. My entire house is full of books.” I fidget with my bound hands, trying to create a little wiggle room so I didn’t have to feel the rope burning my skin with each movement.
“Okay then, Mr knowledge. Tell me how I get Samara and Blair out of the dungeons.”
“You don’t. They are too heavily guarded. They will see you coming from all angles. You would be stupid to think that Dane would have just one guard. Why do you want them back, surely they are usless to you now?”
“They didn’t see me coming to the hospital though, did they?” He smiles, ignoring my question.
“Because it wasn’t a priority.”
He runs a hand through his cropped blonde hair. “You are going to help me get them back.”
“The agreement was that if I came with you, you won’t touch anyone inside the pack.”
“They are not part of the pack.”
I laugh, “Inside the pack, that was the deal. I’ve seen enough contracts to know the correct wording!”
He squats down in front of me. His sage green eyes study me. “You love that pack. Why?”
“It’s my family.”
He laughs and shakes his head. “There are a lot of bad people in Black Shadow.”
“And you’re not bad? You take away people’s abilities. To me, that’s bad.” My neck still aches where he had jabbed me, and I’m desperately fighting the need to sleep. But sleep Completely takes me, I we me going to get as much out of him as I could. I will find a way to get the information to Dane or one of the others.
“No Klaus, I’m correcting everything that is wrong.” He tells me
“According to who? You? Why do you get to decide what is right and wrong?”
His fingers grab my cheeks and he squeezes enough to create pain. “Someone has too. Now get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow.”
He moves out of the room and watches me as he quietly closes the door. Within seconds my eyelids grow too heavy for me to keep open.
“Wakey wakey sleeping beauty.” He nudges my legs with his boot.
Groaning, I push myself up until I’m sitting against the wall. “Here, eat.”
He places an apple in my hands, “I don’t need you starving.”
I take a bite as he watches me. “I assume you didn’t tell them. Is that why you came so easily?”
“Tell them what?”
“Oh, you know exactly what I’m talking about.” He squats and wipes some of the apple juice from my chin.
I take another bite, refusing to say anything.
“Just so you are aware, what I’ve drugged you with isn’t permanent like Madisons or Blairs. A couple of days or so, you will be able to scent me again. Though I’m hoping that I can convince you not to reject me.”
The blue flecks in his sage green eyes seem brighter, full of hope. Like he was totally convinced I would be on board with him just because he happens to be my mate. “Maybe I can convince you not to be a prick!”
He smiles at me and pulls a bottle of water from the inside of his jacket. “As much as you think I’m a prick, I would rather you didn’t die on my watch.” “But you will gladly ruin the lives of others.” My eyes move to the bottle, but I don’t pick it up.
“You don’t trust me do you?” He asks
“You are not trustworthy.”
He takes a swig from the bottle and puts it back in front of me. “See. Now drink. We have to move soon.”
He moves to the window, scanning the area. I knew we were still in the forest, but not Black Shadow’s forest because there are no abandoned cabins there.
“Is Samara the Witch?” I ask. It couldn’t be him if I was mated to him.
“No. I am. Well, half Witch. Though I am particularly proud of how strong I am.” He turns back to face me. “Samara is the only one that knows that about me, and you obviously. Clearly my Lycan side has been linked with yours. Even funnier knowing that you are a Wolf” He lets out a low growl. “You thought your Witch side outweighed your Lycan side?”
“I did, until I stumbled upon you. You scented me when I was hiding in the pack as Ash Thomas.”
“Only briefly, I thought my mind was playing tricks. I picked up your scent and then, in seconds, it was gone.”
“Had to keep myself hidden while I sussed out the pack. I couldn’t have you ruining it for me, could I.” He gives me a big grin.
“That’s how you disconnected the link to Neah? Because you can hide who you truly are?”
“Yes.”
“She will kill you.”
“I’m sure she will try, but will she kill you in the process?”
He does a final check outside and pulls me to my feet. Ushering me out into the forest. Even though it was dark, the birds were already singing, a sign the sun would be rising soon. I don’t fight Cooper, there was no point, he had the upper hand. So I walk, letting him guide me through the forest until I recognised the location where Dane had asked me to bring clothes for Neah.
“Where are we going?”
“Well seeing as my little escapee has abandoned her house, I thought we could spend a few hours there. You know, close by but not too far away. Get some decent rest instead of that shitty cabin.”
“You don’t think they will come looking here?”
“Why would they? Blair and Samara are tightly locked up. But right now, I’m more interested in you. You haven’t once complained about not having your Wolf. Why?”
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I shrug my shoulders and keep walking.
“Now you stop talking!” He mutters in annoyance, “And I was just starting to like you.”
I keep quite for a little while and then ask the question that has been bugging me. “Why Blair and not Maddie?”
“Maddie is weak. I don’t need her. She is a waste of resources. Though I am impressed she made it back to the pack.” He didn’t say anything about Samara.
“So tell me Klaus,” his husky voice runs right through me. “Why are you so calm? could slit your throat. I could pierce your chest with my lovely tittle blade and rip your insides out. could force you to shift skin you and make a nice winter coat.”
I glance over my shoulder. “Because you need me. That was why you agreed to leave everyone alone if I came with you. What is Samara to you?”
“A pain in my fucking ass.” He stops me. “You don’t see the resemblance?”
“Can’t say I have really looked at her. I’ve been busy trying to help Maddie.”
“She is my sister. Same father, different mother.”
I laugh and he glares at me. “What the fuck is so funny about that?”
“One of the guys thought Samara had a thing for you.”
“Ew, don’t be so fucking disgusting.” He shakes his head. “How long did it take for them to figure out Sam was working with me?”
I considered lying. Telling him that only I had figured it out. But it wouldn’t achieve anything. Th might if he thinks she is about to be slaughtered.
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“Since she arrived.”
“So why are they keeping her alive?”
Blair
A shiver goes down my spine when Abraxas Adler makes his way into the dungeons. He was the last person I wanted to see.
He slowly runs his gun along the bars of my cell. Each bar lets off the sound of metal clunking on metal and it goes right through me.
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