Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Well chop chop, go and get her.” Cooper demands
I step forward to the gate. My hands coil around the bars. “Why are you doing this? You don’t know us. We don’t know you.”
“You are right. We don’t know each other.” Cooper mutters
“Why Maddie?”
“Right time, right place.” He smiles back at me. “Come on, are you trying to tell me you have never taken advantage of a situation? Because I wouldn’t believe that. I have heard a lot about you, Neah. I know how you like to rip out people’s hearts.”
“Klaus told you that?”
“No.”
Jenison told Blair. Blair probably told him. Dane links me.
Cooper shakes his head at me. “In fact Klaus didn’t give me much information no matter how I persisted. It’s really quite annoying that he would treat me this way. I am his mate.”
I snort. He was nuts.
“You think that’s funny?” He frowns at me
“I think you have a fucked up idea of what it is to be mates.” I glance at Klaus who has his head tilted down and is swaying on the spot. He was present and not present at the same time.
“None of this makes sense.” I mutter to Dane.
“None of it has to make sense.” Cooper smiles, “Now is someone going to bring me my sister or do I have to kill you all.”
“Your sister for Klaus. “Dane spits.
“Uh, No.”
“It’s a trade.” Dane frowns.
“I want both. I want my sister and I want my mate. It’s cruel of you to make me decide. I would never expect you to decide between Neah and Jenson or maybe Neah and Raven.”
“That’s not how this works.” Dane is growing angry. I could understand why. This guy had been in our pack, learning everything he could about us.
“Incorrect, this is how it doesn’t work for you. I leave with my sister and my mate.”
“He isn’t your mate!”
Cooper points his finger at Dane. “Now that is not the first time I have heard that. Klaus keeps denying it too, yet I can smell him and oh, it’s the best smell ever. So someone is lying and I don’t like lies.”
“Says you who constantly lies.” I mutter
“You are wrong, and I will let that slide this time.” Cooper tells me. “I skirt the truth, but I don’t lie. I share what I want to share.”
“You make your prisoners think that they are mated to you. What’s that if it isn’t a lie?”
He frowns at me.
‘Did he honestly not think that was a lie? Nyx muses
I glance at Klaus who had his eyes tilted up towards me, the grey was fading and slowly being replaced with his usual deep green colour. Whatever Cooper had given to him, it wasn’t as strong as he hoped or planned.
Klaus’s swaying slows and I watch him blink a few more times as Cooper demands for Dane to get Samara.
“I will get her as long as you agree to hand over Klaus.” Dane tells him. “It’s as simple as that.”
“You don’t get it do you, Dane. This decision isn’t yours. It’s mine and only mine and I will be leaving here with both.”
Hook to Dane. ‘We can’t let him walk away with both of them.”
“I can keep him safe.” Cooper continues. “He can have the best life with me. I can provide him everything he needs. Trust me, he will be safer with me.”
“You call that safe? He is bound and drugged. You are beyond delusional. I am your Alpha.”I glare at him. “You may not feel it right now, but trust me, I will find a way to make you feel it and I will find a way to make you suffer.”
He laughs at me. “Go and get my sister, princess.”
“Don’t” Klaus yells, “She’s behind all of this!”
Dane
My eyes lock on Klaus, he is furiously shaking his head at me while watching Cooper. “She’s dangerous.” He dodges out of the way as Cooper tries to grab him. “Everyone is safe if you keep her in the dungeons. Don’t let her out.”
‘What the fuck does that mean?’ Aero demands as we watch Klaus dodge Cooper again.
I pull on the gates, dragging them open and squeezing myself through the small gap just as Cooper takes a blade from his jeans and dives at Klaus again.
“Klaus.” Neah whispers, her voice cracking as his name tumbles from her lips.
I look up to see the blade sticking out of Klaus’s chest. His shirt steadily grows red as blood oozes from the wound. He stumbles back only for Cooper to grab him and hold him upright.
“You bastard!” I roar. My eyes shift from him to Klaus. The colour was quickly fading from his skin.
Cooper just frowns at me, “Look what you made me do!” He continues to hold Klaus upright. “You made me kill my mate. You made me mateless. You took him away from me. You will pay for that.”
I just stare at him. How could he blame me when he had just stabbed Klaus?
‘Klaus is right. This guy is unhinged.’ Aero scoffs
Neah pushes past me. I grab her hand, stopping her from going anywhere. I didn’t need him stabbing her too. Her blue eyes find mine and I shake my head.
‘He’s killed Klaus’ She whispers through the link. I could see she was fighting the tears and I was having to use all of my strength to stop her throwing herself forward.
‘Look at the angle of the blade. It should have missed Klaus’s heart.’ I mutter even though Klaus had stopped moving and his head hangs low. ‘There is still a chance.’ At least I hope there is.
Cooper combs his fingers through Klaus’s long dark hair. Begging him to open his eyes. “I can fix this Klaus. You just need to open your eyes.” He taps Klaus’s cheek, pleading with him.
“You stabbed him you idiot!”
“Because he shouldn’t have done that. He shouldn’t have listened to you. He shouldn’t have been awake.” Cooper’s eyes flick up to me and growls. “I will make sure she gets out and rips your pack apart.”
“No you won’t.” Neah growls back at him. “I am your Alpha and you will do what you are told. You will listen and you will follow my orders. Look at me!”
“What are you doing to me?!” Cooper demands as his wide eyes shift to Neah
“Reminding you of your place.” Neah snaps. “Let go of Klaus.” She orders
Cooper trembles as he tries to fight the order, but his body is forced to lower Klaus to the ground whether he wanted to or not. “I am a Witch. You can’t do this!”
“No, you are part Witch!” Neah growls back at him. “I have been wondering why I couldn’t get through to your Lycan half and now see that’s obvious. You need to be at your weakest. You need to be vulnerable. When your Witch half is failing, your Lycan thrives, no longer blocked by a stupid spell Her eyes are darkening as she stares at him. It had been a while since I had seen Nyx so close to the surface.
“Let go of him.” Neah demands.
Cooper’s fingers retreat from Klaus, leaving scratches across his arm, “You bitch!” He growls, but forces himself to straighten up when out of the corner of my eye, I see Klaus, ripping the blade out of his own chest and slicing it straight across Cooper’s abdomen.
Cooper frantically grabs at his wound, thick@rimson blood spilling freely over his hands as Klaus faces him. “I will never be your mate even if you were the last man on Earth: But want to be the last thing you see” He takes the blade and plunges it through Cooper’s left eye and forces it as deep as it will go.
With a smile, Klaus’s legs buckle underneath him, forcing him to the ground while Cooper’s body falls in the opposite direction. Hitting the ground with a dull, heavy thud.
“Is he dead?” Neah whispers
I point to Ryken to check Cooper while I check on Klaus
“Dead.” Ryken mutters seconds after pressing his fingers to Cooper’s throat.
“Double check.” I mutter, pulling Klaus’s shirt open to find his chest already healing. A sigh of relief escapes me. “He’s alive.”
“Are you sure?” Neah asks
“One hundred percent.” I watch his wounds knit together abnormally fast. Sometimes I forgot just how quick he could heal. It was almost as quick as me.
“And this prick is definitely dead.” Ryken tells me. “What the fuck was he playing at?”
Hollow gasps rattle from Klaus’s chest and he finally takes a deep breath. “He’s not playing or plotting, at least he wasn’t.” Klaus croaks. “He was only ever here to keep an eye on his sister. He had no plans for any of us. Except me.”
“But what about Maddie?” Neah presses
“She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He took advantage of the situation.” His breath is still a little wheezy. My guess would be that Cooper managed to hit a lung. “Samara wanted Blair to come here.”
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