Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“How about you tell us the real reason why you came here.” Damien presses
“It’s true, it was my plan to come here, but not for the reasons you think. Cooper didn’t know, I never told him. But I knew there would be a good chance he would follow. I have to stay close by. It’s what he does. I made Blair believe he would follow her. I didn’t want her to know that it was really me.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
“You can’t keep saying that. You clearly know what you are saying so why are you withholding information.” Damien snaps. “You know you are just speeding up the chances of you dying.” He looks to me, “At this point, it will just be easier to bring Brax in. Her answers are not even making sense any more. One minute she is telling us her brother is going to core for her. The next she is a mess.”
I agree, her story was making less and less sense. What do you think?’ I ask my Wolf.
‘I’m thinking of Neah.” Aero replies
‘Okay’
Just how she was when we first met her. Keeping quiet about things happening to her because she knew there was a strong chance things would get worse if she spoke up. We saw what that family was like. Maybe Neah is right. Maybe Cooper has screwed with Samara’s head.’ He nods, ‘But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s Samara’s truth.”
I grab the stool Damien had been sat on and take a seat right in front of Samara’s cell.
“I did like Blair.” She mutters quietly. “I didn’t want to use her. I had no choice.”
“We all have choices. And one of you is lying or you are both stupid enough to play each other off. That never works.”
“I’m telling the truth about this!”
“About this?”
She nods her head at me. “I couldn’t even link the Alpha. When she told me that Neah was her half sister. I saw an opportunity” She buries her face in her hands and starts screaming. Her fingers paw at her skin, digging and scratching until blood reaches the surface.
“GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!”
She pulls her clothes off as she screams and claws at her skin as she squirms around on the floor. It reminded me of Jenson as he fought against his Wolf.
“Samara, stop!”
Her grey eyes find mine, they glaze over as she continues to dig at herself.
“What do we do?” Damien asks
“We need to see what happens.”
“GET OUT!” She screeches again as claws sprout out of her fingers. Tufts of dark fur erupt from her skin. She screams as her bones break.
I had watched Neah shift as well as my own son, yet neither of them made this much noise and Neah had said it was the most painful thing she had experienced.
The whole process takes a good thirty minutes and stretched out on the floor is a very large Lycan. Her breaths are heavy and her eyes remain closed. Damien shifts his eyes from her to me. “What do we do?”
“We wait.”
Another thirty minutes pass before there is any sign of movement. Her fingers twitch and the twitching spreads to her arms. Her eyes open and she continues to lie on the floor.
I watch as the nostrils move, she inhales the scents around her and slowly sits up, staring at us. Neither Damien or I speak. I wasn’t even sure if Samara could hear us.
My hand tightens around the handle of the blade, preparing myself for an attack but she just continues to watch us, like we were the ones locked in a cage. She glides her tongue over her sharp teeth as she stands. She is definitely bigger than the average Lycan.
Damien
She stares back at me from her cell. Samara had been staring at us both for a while. But since her grey eyes had shifted to me, I seemed to be all she could focus on.
‘Rogue?’ Dane asks through mindlink
‘No. Brax would have scented it a mile off and so would I.’
I look in the cell. All the claw marks at the top made sense when she was probably over eight feet tall, though it was hard to tell while she was still sitting. The rest of us were probably around the seven foot mark once shifted.
“Can you talk?” Dane asks her and for a second her eyes shift to him before returning to me.
“Maybe we need Neah.” I mutter
“I will ask her to come over.” Dane frowns
Samara gives me a sharp nod, like she knew that was who she needed. She doesn’t move as we wait for Neah, but she does not stop watching me either and it is starting to creep me out.
Neah’s footsteps are soft as she creeps down the stairs. “What did you….?” She stops as she spots Samara’s Lycan. “She shifted again?”
“She doesn’t seem to be able to control it.” Dane tells her.
“But she knows it’s coming in time for her to remove her clothes?” She points to the discarded clothes in the corner
Dane sighs. “Yes, it seems that way.”
Neah suddenly holds a hand up to Samara. “I am talking to my mate.”
I look in the cell to see Samara has dropped her head in submission. It was new. She had been angry, frustrated, even tearful but to accept dominance was different. Maybe it was the Lycan in her, maybe she couldn’t refuse, or maybe she was starting to see that she couldn’t win. It had taken long enough.
“She just shifted?” Neah asks Dane
“She screamed and wanted us to leave, then this appeared.” Dane gestures to Samara
“We all knew she was a Lycan.” I murmur and Samara’s grey eyes flicker to me. “But she is a lot bigger than the rest of us. Could she be something else?”
Neah moves closer to Samara’s cell, yet Samara keeps watching me until Neah speaks to her.
“Who are you?”
“What do you want?
Neah is silent for a moment and then tells Dane and I to turn around. “No one wants to be watched while they are shifting if it hurts.”
We turn and face the opposite cells. A growl turns into a howl that is quickly replaced with a Human screaming and crying.
“Get dressed.” Neah mutters. “You need to give us clear answers.”
“I can’t.” A whispered reply echoes around the dungeon
“You mean you won’t.” Neah presses
“No, I can’t. I didn’t lie. I came here for help. That is my truth.”
“First you said you came for help and then you said it was your brother who wanted you to come here. Now you are back to saying it was for help. Which is it?” Neah dehands
“Help. I need help.” Her voice cracks
“Then why did you threaten us with your brother?”
“You were going to kill me and he always said he would protect me. Now this, the monster…. It hurts so much. Is that what he was protecting me from?”
I turn around to see Samara sitting on the floor. One leg folded under her at an awkward angle while she hugs the other. Tears fill her grey eyes
“Cooper followed you here?” I ask
She points to her neck. “I think he put something in me. I think he does it to most people, to keep tabs.” ‘A tracker?’ I link Dane.
‘Possibly.” He replies, but he is deep in thought about something else. “The farm? You or Cooper?”
“Coop at first, to stop anyone running away, Blair was not the first but she was the first that I liked. That’s why Thelped her. She reminded me of me and I just thought that maybe he wouldn’t net away. The other’s they, bet miss one. I could just help one.get different, dangerous even without Wolves and Lycans. I had to keep them busy until Coop came for them. That was my job and I got to stay on my little farm.”
Her eyes settle on Neah. “Blair told me who you were. I thought….I thought this would be it. But I knew I had to lie. To her, to him, to everyone.” “That’s the trouble when there are too many lies.” I tell her. “You unravel and you end up in even more shit. The kind that gets you killed.” “What do you want?” Neah demands.
“I just wanted to get here. It took so much time to convince Blair to come here and I really thought she was going to walk away after we had come so far. I knew there was a chance that you would kill her. took that risk because I thought if I could just get her to show me where you were, then maybe I could convince everyone she is not who she once was. I didn’t think that my death would be a possibility. I thought… it doesn’t matter anymore. I know you won’t help me.”
“You thought we would just allow a complete stranger into our home?” Dane asks
“You are both Alpha’s. I hoped… I hoped one of you would understand.”
“He used the word bloodbath. Told us that you would get out and slaughter everyone.”
She locks her fingers together, twisting them around as she struggles to find an answer. Her words are barely audible as she mutters that Cooper told her she was dangerous.
“Did you kill someone at the prison?”
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