Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Accept my rejection!” He demands.
“But….”
“Like you said, Blair. You have a mate.” His words are full of spite
“I, Blair Everwood, accept your rejection. The scent of tobacco and leather fades the moment the final word leaves my mouth. He smells like every other Lycan. Shaking his head at me, he walks away.
A shock spasms through my chest at the breaking of the bond. I should be happy. I have Jenson and I will get him back. I didn’t need Cooper. I didn’t need the man who was actually chosen for me.
Cooper disappears around the corner and my chest tightens. He was going to Black Shadow. He would tell them about me. I had to kill him. I couldn’t let him give them information.
Pulling the small knife from inside my jacket, I run after him. Cooper’s strides are long and he ignores me when I call out to him.
He stops suddenly and I swing the knife at him. Though he is prepared and catches my wrist, squeezing it tight until I’m forced to drop the knife. “That was a stupid move.”
“You can’t tell them about me!”
“Or what? You are going to stick a knife in my back? How about I beat you to it!”
Something cold plunges into my back. It’s pulled down from near my heart to somewhere more central. The pain doesn’t kick in right away. Not until I feel the warmth of my blood trickling down my skin and soaking the back of my shirt.
It wasn’t him that stabbed me though. One hand was still on my wrist, the other on my hip. He had been working with someone.
He lets go of me and I drop to the ground in agony, only to see the Wolf that had brought me the glass of wine. “Have a good sleep.”
Blair
“Look who is awake!” The tip of a finger presses against my chin, pushing my head up off of my chest.
The edges of my sight are still dark and the rest is blurred but I recognise Cooper’s voice. “Took you a little longer to heal than I expected.”
Pain radiates down my spine. The tightness of my skin tells me that the wound has only just finished knitting itself together. I try to straighten my back to relieve the pressure but I’m unable to move and my head starts rolling back into a wall behind me, while fighting the need for more sleep.
A hand taps my cheek. “Come on, wake up you little whore.”
“I…” what the fuck had they given me? My head pounded, making the pain of my spine seem like nothing in comparison.
“What strength did you use?” Cooper yells out. “She’s still out of it.”
“I doubled it just to be sure.” Another man replies.
I try blinking to clear the blur, but the more I blink the more I grow desperate for the pain in my head to stop.
“You idiot. You were supposed to just use the normal dose. We need her alive!”
I try clearing the lump forming in my throat. “Where am….”
“Don’t you worry your pretty little head about things like that, Blair Everwood or should I say Kitson.”
No matter how much I try, I’m unable to force my vision to clear. I could smell the sterile room, but that wouldn’t confirm my location. I could smell Cooper and the Wolf from the bar but no one else. If I could just shift, I could kill them.
Their voices begin to echo like the room had suddenly grown bigger. My heart pounds in my chest so hard it feels like my ribs might break.
I had been so caught up with my fated mate that everything else had slipped away. I had failed to see what was coming and now I was paying the price. I had lost my touch.
A hand taps my cheek, “Stay awake, Blair.”
“Why?” I whisper. Why would my mate do this to me?
“Every Lycan and Wolf is gunning for your death. It will be a shame if this is how you die.”
He had already met Neah. He wasn’t on his way to Black Shadow, he had already been.
“You…you don’t know…..”
“That you want her position?” He muses. “Of course we know. Stepdaddy isn’t so good at keeping your secret.”
My heart beat drastically slows and my body slumps to one side, hitting a wall.
“No, no, you don’t get to sleep.”
“I’m not….” My breath comes out all gaspy, I wasn’t getting the oxygen I needed.
“Shit!” He grabs my legs and yanks me down the mattress. A hand goes against my chest. “Her heart is fucking weak. We need her alive.” “I’m not a fucking doctor!” The other guy growls back.
Something sharp pierces my chest and I’m out before I can say anything.
I wake with a gasp, my hands clutch my chest as I check my own heart. It’s beating a little fast, but not
Vel anything crazy. But I was alive, that was the main thing.
I’m in a windowless white room. A toilet sits in the corner and the only other thing in here is the bed. I’m on a drip feed that’s connected to my inner arm. In the top corner, I see a camera. I had been wrapped in some sort of white gown while everything else had been removed.
How fucking long had I been here? And where was I?
The door opens and Cooper stands in it, his frame filling out the space. “Look who decided to join the land of the living.”
“Where am I?”
“You don’t need to worry about that.”
“How long have I been here?” My back didn’t feel tight from the freshly healed skin, in fact it felt amazing.
“Five weeks.”
“Five weeks? Why would you do this? We were mated until you rejected me.”
“Funny what a little concoction can do.”
I climb off the bed ready to attack him when the tube in my arm pulls, sending a sharp twinge down my arm.
“Careful, that’s keeping you alive.”
“Fuck off!” I yank it out and charge towards him, ready to throw my all into beating the crap out of him when I start to feel a little woozy.
He catches me before I hit the ground and carries me back to the bed. He puts the tube back in just as I hear other women screaming, demanding to know where they are. What kind of place was this?
“You seem a little confused.” He mutters, checking how much is left in the drip bag.
“I thought you were doing this for Neah?”
“I have no interest in the Alpha. Daniel did, but Daniels dead.”
“The Wolf from the bar?”
“Yes.” He pulls the blanket up over my legs and it’s only now that I realise my sense of smell is weak.
“What have you done to me?”
“I needed to make sure you couldn’t shift. You cause quite a lot of problems for our kind, don’t you Blair. I can’t allow that.”
“I’m paid and they all deserve it.”
“Oh I know. Though I’ve been having to clean up your mess for a long time. Make sure the Humans don’t discover us.”
More screams and shouts ring out down the hallway, both men and women. How many were being kept here?
“All Lycans?”
“No.”
As I stare at him, I try to drive my Lycan forward. If it means I eat him to be free, then I would. But nothing happens.
He smiles at me. “I wouldn’t bother. It’s not going to work.”
My eyes move to the drip feed, it had to be something in that.
Cooper laughs. “You need it to survive. So your options are to live here without your Lycan or die.”
He strides to the door. “Breakfast will be served shortly.” He starts to pull the door shut. “Just remember this. You think you are bad, there is always someone alot worse than you.”
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