Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
The knife clatters on the wooden floor as he disappears. I glance over to Madison who is curled up under the side table. “You didn’t know you did that to me, did you?”
She shakes her head but refuses to meet my eyes. “He told me just before you came in.”
“Injection or a drug?”
“I don’t know. I don’t even know when, where or how. I don’t even know if he is telling the truth or if I have done it to others..”
“I have a machine downstairs that scans bodies. So we will soon find out.”
Neah
“Brax is gone? Is he coming back?” I ask
“What an idiot.” Nyx mutters
“Oh, decided to stop ignoring me now? I mutter back, but she doesn’t answer
Eric hands me a folded up piece of paper. “It’s unclear. All it says is that he needs to figure out what is happening to him.”
“So he does know something is wrong with him.” Dane mutters as he swings Logan up onto his shoulders.
“I’m guessing so, but Maddie has gone with him.”
“He made her?” I ask. I knew they were mates but Maddie said the pack was the only place she felt safe.
“No.” Mallory replies. “Well at least it doesn’t look like it. I went and looked around her room for clues, a few basic things are missing, but it doesn’t look like either of them left in a hurry. It looked like they had planned it.”
“After Cooper?” Dane frowns as I pass him the note.
“I know Brax wants Cooper dead, but I don’t think he would put Maddie back in harm’s way.” Mallory mutters
“The problem is, we can’t link either one of them if they are in trouble.” I groan
Fucking Brax and his need to get things done.
“You better tell them the other thing.” Eric tells Mallory.
“Is this about Kade? I’m about to go over there now.” Dane replies
“No. There was a little bit of a situation earlier.” Mallory drops her gaze
“He shifted, didn’t he?” I look down at Evrin who is pulling at Danes shoe laces
“Yes. I don’t want you to get mad. They were asleep. Ryken asked me to keep an eye on Blair when he went to speak to Eric about Kade. She sat right there.” Mallory points at the chair on her porch.
“Evrin had already shifted. You didn’t wam me he could climb out his cot and well, he made his way out here.”
“Blair knows?” Dane asks with a cocked brow
“Yes.”
“Did she touch them?”
“No, she freaked out and then asked why no one else knew. Actually, it was weird to see her scared. Nothing like the person that turned up here to announce herself. And definitely not like the woman that held me to a chair and stabbed me in the leg. I’m sorry, Neah. He was asleep. I swear else I would never have agreed to watching her.”
“Okay.” I mutter
She looks up at me, shocked. “Okay? I thought you were going to hit the roof.”
I shrug my shoulders. “Everyone is going to find out eventually. Logan will be next. Blair was not the ideal person to find out first.” I glance up to Dane. “But it might scare her enough to not be stupid.”
Mallory presses a hand to her chest and lets out a puff of air.
“She’s been stressing out.” Eric tells Dane and they both roll their eyes. “Are you really going to bind the kid?” Eric asks. “I get it. From what Ryken told me, he is a little brat but binding him.” He glances at me.
“Preferably, no. It is what Ryken wants though, unless I can convince him otherwise. But I’m hoping Neah can talk some sense into him.”
“Me?” I ask, surprised.
“He may be a kid, but he is a Lycan kid which means he bows to you.”
“You want me to scare him?’ I wasn’t sure how comfortable I was about that.
“Only if you need to. Sometimes it will work.”
Mallory and Eric agree to watch the twins while we visit Rykens. Blair opens the door and as soon as she sees me, she lowers her gaze. “Do you need me for something?”
“No. Where’s Ryken?” Dane asks
“In the kitchen, this way.”
She leads us through the house when a small boy pulls on my sleeve. “Hi.” He beams at me with blue eyes that are brighter than my own. “My name is Calihan,”
“Hi.” I smile back at him and he blushes, quickly running off somewhere.
“I think someone has a bit of a crush.” Dane links me
‘Don’t be stupid.’
‘I think I’m going to have to keep an eye on that one.” He jokes with a smile
Ryken appears and Blair makes her excuses, disappearing through a door and down some steps.
“Eric has told you everything?”
“Yes.” Dane replies. “But before we get to that. I want to try something else.”
“You don’t want to bind him?”
“At the end of the day, you are his father. But from experience, it’s one of the worst things you can do. If anything, that might make him hate everything more.”
“I thought about that.” Ryken mutters, “Yet talking to him doesn’t seem to be making a difference.”
“But you haven’t tried having the Alpha speak to him.” Dane gestures to me.
“Okay.” Ryken nods his head at me. “He is in his room after a rough day. Do you want me to call him down?”
“No need.” I mutter.
“But you have to let her handle this. Don’t intervene in any shape or form.” Dane tells Ryken
He takes a deep breath, “Do it.”
I move to the bottom of the stairs “KADE EVERWOOD!”
Kade appears at the top of the stairs. There is a flicker of annoyance at his delayed reaction in recognising me. I watch as his brown eyes soften. His bottom lip trembles. “Alpha Neah,” He whispers, lowering his eyes
“We need to talk.” I sigh. He was just a kid. A kid a little older than I was when I was accused of killing my parents. Scaring him was not what I wanted to do. I will find another way. “Let’s go for a walk.”
He silently moves down the stairs and looks to Ryken for help. Ryken keeps his mouth shut, just as requested.
Kade follows me out of the house, neither one of us speaking. He shoves his hands in his pockets and scuffs his feet as he walks. But he walks quickly, as though he was in a hurry to get away from the house.
“Tell me something.” I mutter
“Like what?” He asks, confused.
“Anything. School, friends, home.”
“I don’t have any friends.” He grumbles. “They are all stupid.”
“Stupid? That’s a bit harsh.”
“They just…you won’t understand.” A frown appears on his tanned face.
“Try me.”
“They won’t get to live so what’s the point in being friends.”
“That was unexpected.’ Nyx frowns
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