Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
She doesn’t move and continues to whimper in pain, but she had brought it on herself. Damien would never be happy with her.
“Get up!” I snap, pulling her to her feet by her elbow.
“Where am I going?”
*There is no place for you here. You get to leave, just like you wanted.” I tell her
“Really?”
I nod and guide her through the hospital. We pass Klaus but he doesn’t say anything. He had done what he could, but it just wasn’t going to work out. It would be too much of a risk to let her stay here. And she doesn’t acknowledge him either.
She shuffles along at an awfully slow pace and I had to keep tugging her forwards.
“Wait, this isn’t the direction of the gates.” she protests. “The gates are over there.” she points in the opposite direction.
“We are not going to the gates.” I direct her into the forest.
“Why?”
*Too many eyes. And Damien doesn’t want to see you.” I murmur
“Okay. You will have to point me in the right direction once we get to a road. I’m getting all turned around.”
I nod. She was already all turned around. “Cooper spoke of Silas?” I ask, wondering if I could get a tiny bit of truth from her.
“Yes. At first I thought they were made up stories, but after a while, I knew that they must be true.”
“How?”
*Facts, small details. They never changed.”
“Why did you panic when you saw me?” I ask
*Because you are the picture Cooper painted in my mind. You might look like him, you might not. But I do know from the stories, he has eyes just like yours. Strange and weird for a Wolf.”
“And you could be lying.” I mutter as she scoots around a tree stump
“It’s hard sometimes.”
“What is?
“Everything.” She frowns as she ducks under a low tree branch
“Are you just saying it to try and get some sympathy votes, because that won’t work on me.”
“My mate just rejected me.”
“I was there, I saw and heard everything. But what does that have to do with everything being hard?”
She stops and her golden eyes find mine. “Because people never see me for me.”
“Understandable when you lie to everyone.”
She scowls at me. “And you haven’t lied?”
“I didn’t say that, did I? Now keep walking?”
“He could have had me. I could have been his perfect mate, but no, I am not good enough.”
“No, no you couldn’t have. You are too much of a liability.”
*Excuse me?!”
*Damien was right. It’s impossible to tell what is a lie and what is the truth when it comes to you. You are all over the place. Scattered.”
“I am not!”
*Then tell me who are you running from?”
“I told you.”
“You did. Then you admitted it was a lie. That you had never met Silas. So who in White Cliffs are you running from?”
“No one.”
“White Cliffs are not a local pack, they are far north. So you travelled a long way before Cooper.”
“Why do you want to know?”
*Just curious. Plus I need to know who to alert about your death.”
She tugs her arm free. “What?”
“I love my mate and usually, I would agree with her decision. But lately, things have become too problematic to allow you to live.”
“You can just let me go. I won’t say anything. I promise.”
“That’s the problem, Eris. You might be more believable if you had just told everyone the truth in the first place.”
“I mean it.” She begs, her voice going all squeaky. “I really won’t say anything and I won’t come back here. It will be like it never happened.”
She takes a step backwards. Holding her hands up. “Neah said I could go. I heard her.”
“Yes, she did say that. But did you not take notice of her surroundings? She was in a hospital, exhausted. She wasn’t necessarily clear in her thinking, but I am.”
With each step I take towards her, she backs up until her body crashes into a tree.
“Please!”
She freezes as a gun goes off, not even a second passes and I see the small bullet hole in the centre of her forehead. A tiny trickle of blood runs down between her eyes. The light dimming from them before her body slides down the tree trunk.
“How long have you been following us?” I ask as his footsteps crunch on the ground.
Brax steps up behind me “Long enough.”
“I was going to kill her.”
“And if you had, it may just screw things up between you and Neah.”
I spin around to look at him. “Neah understands more than you will ever know. I was going to kill Eris for her, for us, for our family. Letting her go would have been a mistake.”
“We all know that.” He walks to Eris who is still slumped against a tree. Using his fingers, he carefully closes her eyelids. “But Neah is pregnant and she is going to need you. And this way, you don’t need to lie to her. Besides, Neah already knows that I will do what I need to do, to ensure that she and her babies are safe. That was the deal right?”
“I wasn’t going to lie.”
“Okay.” He mutters, pulling Eris over his shoulder. “Let me deal with this, you head back.”
I take my time going back to Neah. I wasn’t sure why Brax thought I would lie to my mate. I had no intention of lying, that wasn’t the agreement between Neah and I. I just needed to kill Eris first. At least now, she was another problem cut from our lives.
‘Dane, come to mine!’ Eric links me
What’s the problem?’
‘Um, it’s a little too complicated for me to explain. Just hurry.”
Eric is outside with Luca and Logan when I arrive. “What’s happening?”
“Evrin.” He points to the house and I hear a crash come from inside. “Mall is trying to contain him.”
“He’s shifted?” I ask as there is another crash along with Mallory telling Evrin to stop.
Eric nods at me
I walk inside to a house looking like a tornado had ripped through it. Furniture was uprooted, broken dishes scattered the floor. Clothes and food had been flung around the room.
I hear Mallory upstairs, talking and trying to calm my son down. It’s met with growls and footsteps pounding across the floor.
Evrin tears down the stairs towards me, throwing his Lycan frame at me. His arms lock around my neck as he buries his nose against me. His breaths are heavy and his heart races but as I hold him, I feel his body grow heavy and he slowly starts shifting back.
A frazzled Mallory descends the stairs, staring at me. “Is that really all it has taken?”
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