Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
They are all looking at me.
“There might not be anyone there. But then there might be others, a wider family.” I shrug my shoulders. Deep down, I wanted to go. I wanted to know more about my mother. I wanted to know what she was like. Someone there must have known her.
Neah
‘She could be right.’ Nyx murmurs. ‘There could be more out there.’
‘Even if there are, they never bothered to look for me? You know as well as I do that they would have felt it when my binding was broken. They would have heard me when I linked everyone. Not one of them has even tried to contact me. Not one of the Lycans here have mentioned White Cliffs.’ Dane watches me as I shuffle Evrin around, trying to get comfortable. I don’t remember feeling like this so early on when I was pregnant with the boys.
I frown when I could feel Dane searching my mind, looking for some clue on my silence.
“Do you really believe that was where your parents met?” I finally ask Samara.
She hikes her shoulders up around her chin and lowers her gaze. “I don’t know. I just.” She frowns. “When Damien told me the name, it rang a bell. Like a forgotten piece of information, hiding in my brain. I hadn’t even thought about her until Dakota arrived and now it’s like an itch I need to scratch.”
After a brief pause, she looks up at us. “You know, find out about her and learn about that side that makes up my gics.”
“We know what you mean.” Damien speaks softly to her and I watch as she gives him a small smile. Her cheeks slowly turn rosy. Quickly, she starts talking to me again, trying to hide the blush that was deepening the colour on her cheeks.
“Don’t you wonder? If it really is a place where our bloodline runs deep, don’t we deserve to know?” Samara presses and points at my twins. “Don’t they deserve to know everything about themselves?”
I couldn’t hide my scowl. I already knew where this was going. She wanted to go to White Cliffs. And in a weird way, she was asking my permission.
“I need time to think.” I mutter. “It’s not a simple case of packing up and heading to a pack I’ve never heard of. I have kids.”
“She is also pregnant.” Dane adds, “And supposed to be taking it easy.” He gives me a look that dares me to agree to this stupid idea.
“Klaus.” I murmur to Damien. “Go and ask him if he can find any other information on White Cliffs other than them being up north. And take Samara with you.”
“No dungeon?” Samara asks quickly.
“For now, no.” I confirm. She had a hand in killing her brother, letting her have a bit of breathing space was the least I could reward her with. She smiles at me. “I won’t let you down.”
Damien is grinning at her too, and not in a ‘we’re just friends way’. He liked her more than that, but she seems to be completely unaware.
They leave together and Dane sits next to me as Logan climbs up on to his lap. “Did you see what I saw?”
I nod. “They will figure it out. It’s not our business.”
“I don’t think they’re mates.”
I shrug my shoulders. “Eric wasn’t mated to his wife.”
“True.” He throws a giggling Logan up into the air and catches him easily. You really don’t want to know anymore about your background do you?”
I shake my head. “If the way my parents tried to get rid of me is anything to go by. I can only imagine the others, if there are any, they are probably just as bad.”
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“It’s not necessarily all of them. And in no way am I trying to defend your parents for their actions. But maybe they weren’t prepared for you. Maybe they didn’t know that you shifting so early was a possibility He frowns, “The whole situation has me thinking about what Blair said in the early days. How she wanted what was hers. To take the pack as she was the eldest even though it was never your fathers. It sounds like your mother may have left everything behind to be with him. To set up a new life and there were a bunch of them that followed.”
“You think they were some kind of forbidden couple?”
“Possibly. Maybe your father was nobody and your grandparents didn’t want them together.”
“Does that happen? They were fated mates.” I ask
“It happens more than you realise.”
“It would explain why Moonshine was always hidden.”
He nods his head and bounces Logan on his knees. “And why Trey was so desperate to make a deal with me. Who were they preparing to fight against?”
“You think they were going to fight White Cliffs?”
“The eagerness. The unwillingness to read the contract even when warned. How he so easily agreed to letting you come with me. It sounds like we missed something. Never have I had an Alpha that has been so desperate to make a contract with me without reading through my terms and conditions. Normally, it has always been the other way around. I would practically force them into it, but I would still give them a chance to opt out, if it suited me.”
He pulls faces at Logan as he catches him, “But Trey was beyond desperate. It may not have been that they were going to fight, but maybe the plan was to protect themselves and they did not in any way have the numbers. They needed help.”
“What would they have been fighting over?”
His crimson eyes lock on mine.
“Me?” I scoff
“Your mother had died. You had become the Alpha. Though Trey and Cassandra were pretty quick at binding you again. But you said it yourself, the day you turned eighteen, for a short while, you were unbound again. If you had stayed that way long enough, Nyx may have shown up and they would have been able to find you. They couldn’t locate you when you were bound.”
“You really think they were coming for me? Because that sounds insane.”
“In the grand scheme of things, does it?”
“They could have come and found me at any point since I’ve been here.” I mutter
“They could have. Or maybe something changed. Maybe they realised just how powerful you can really be and have decided that it’s best to keep their distance.”
“That is just crazy.”
“Is it? Think about how things have happened. And I’m not talking about the stuff that happened to you. Changing Humans into Lycans long before they attacked us and long before I was in the picture. Damien has said Cassandra did it because they would be great weapons. Yes they had plans for you, but it seems like they must have had other plans too, because I didn’t know you until I set eyes on you in that office of Treys.”
“Even if we consider that what you are saying is true, why would they have come for me?”
“To take you back to where you should live. Raise you to be the strong female Alpha that you are.”
I shuffle over and slide Evrin onto Danes’ lap so I can get up. I loosely retie my hair into its bun, ignoring the escaped strands as I mull over Danes words.
“It’s a lot of maybes!” I sigh
“It is, I’m just trying to work through possible scenarios. Maybe it was because they knew your parents tried to abandon you. Maybe, they were trying to save you. Maybe they wanted to offer you something better.”
“Anything would have been better than the crap Trey and the others put me through. Practically starving, dehydrated and barely able to stand sometimes without the room spinning. All I ever wanted was to be accepted for who I am” vel
“Like I said, it’s only theories. We don’t know if any of it is the truth.” He shrugs his shoulders at me
“But you think I should consider it?”
“I think you should do whatever it is you need to do. I’m not forcing you either way. This has to be your choice.”
“As I said to Nyx, not one of them has bothered to contact me when they could have quite easily done sq. I’m not chasing after something that doesn’t need to be chased after. Besides, I am carrying another set of twins. Would you really be letting me travel way up north when we don’t know what we will be walking into?”
“You have a point.” He smiles
“If Klaus can give Damien something that is worth investigating, I might consider it, but not until these are here.” I pat my stomach. ‘We could try and sift through the links to find them.’ Nyx offers
‘No.’ I mutter. I wanted the quietness to last. I wanted to focus on the pack and my growing family. Especially with my ever shifting son.
Damien
“Nothing?” I ask Klaus as Samara eyes up his mountains of books. “In all of these books, there is really nothing?” “From what I understand, they are more secret than a secret. What Dane told you, about being a northern pack, that is pretty much all there is on them. I can’t find anything else.”
“How far north?”
“I would assume the furthest you can go without leaving the mainland.” Klaus mutters
“Dane never bothered to make a deal with them?”
“Why would he? They never requested his or the pack’s help. And they are hundreds of miles away. From the little information I know, they likely keep themselves to themselves.” He moves around, packing a few things in bags. It looked as though he was sticking to his word and leaving Black Shadow now Cooper was dead.
“Then how did Eris end up all the way down here?” Samara asks as she runs a finger along the edge of a book shelf, pulling books out a few inches to look at the cover before sliding them right back into place.
Klaus raises his shoulders. “I know you rejected her, Damien, but I guess you could try and get the truth out of her. Whether she will give it is a different question.”
“That ain’t going to happen.”
“I know you Damien. You can get what you need out of people.”
“It’s a little bit harder when they are dead.”
He pauses to stare at me and turns away. “I honestly thought she was telling me the truth. Damien.”
“We both did.” Samara adds. “She was very convincing.”
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