Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“I’m not scared anymore. I know who I am.”
“Show me.” Dane mutters.
‘You’ve got this.’ Nyx chatters. ‘Clear your head, stand tall, don’t fucking fall over.’
My eyes shift to Damien. “Can you turn around?” I didn’t care if Dane saw me naked, he was my mate and had seen me naked more times than I can count.
Everything cracks, my bones stretch and fur appears again. It’s painful but tolerable and keeps going until I’m standing over him and he stares at me with a smile. “There you are.”
Mallory
“There you are” I beam at Damien as I enter the packhouse. He was making his way down the stairs, but he had an air of confusion surrounding him. “You good?”
“She did it.”
“Huh?”
“She has control. She shifted.”
“Seriously?” I feel myself grinning from ear to ear. “That’s awesome, we have been waiting for this for so long. How did she do it?” I stare at him expectantly, waiting for the amazing news.
“Neah’s different.” He mutters. “She’s bonded with her Lycan.” His eyes settle on mine, “Which is good, right?”
“Of course it is. What’s wrong with you? Why wouldn’t it be good?”
Damien smiles at me, “Nothing. I guess, on some levels, I never thought it would happen. She’s been battling her darkness for a long time. So long that I thought it would eventually win. The darkness has always won before.”
“You’re wrong. You and I are living proof that it doesn’t always win.”
He nods, “You’re right. I’m just overthinking it.” He looks over his shoulder up the stairs. “And she seems happy. They both do.” His eyes return to me. “You were looking for me?”
“I need your help.”
He follows me to my house and I point to the table. He sighs and steps up to it. His eyes scan over the items.
“Are these…”
“Yes!”
“And they…”
“Yes!” I snap
“And I’m the first person you are telling.”
“Clearly. You are my best friend. Who else am I going to tell first?!”
He cocks a brow at me, and picks up one of the dozen pregnancy tests, “How about the father?”
I blow out my cheeks. “I’ve not told him yet. He asked me before about having one and I told him no. That it was too early, after what Salem did to his boys. And now, I’m pregnant anyway.”
“I don’t really think you have a choice, Mallory. You can’t hide it from him……” He knits his eyebrows together, “Please don’t tell me that you wanted my help to get rid of it?!”
“No, no, of course not. I was hoping for some words of wisdom. you are normally full of them!”
“You will make a great mum.”
“That’s your wise words?” I mock, “Anyone could have told me that?”
“But you wouldn’t have believed them.” I roll my eyes because it was true. Eric was my mate, but he still didn’t know me as well as Damien did, no one did. “Congrats Mallory, I’m happy for you.”
“What about you and Raven?” I ask. I knew she had suggested trying, but he hadn’t confided anything to me.
He presses his lips into a thin line and sighs. “We would have to be having sex make a pup.” I watch his shoulders drop. “Since Jenson ended up in a coma, she hasn’t been in the right frame of mind and now he’s gone, I don’t even know where we stand.”
“Where is she?”
“Sleeping, finally.”
“Maybe a good amount of sleep will help her see more clearly.”
“Here’s hoping.” He mutters and his dark eyes move up to the clock. “I have to go and check on the Lycans.” He points to the tests. “You need to tell him Mallory, because you know who will work it out and blab his big mouth to everyone. And I’m sure Eric would rather hear it from you.”
I watch him leave and let out my own heavy sigh. He was right. Abraxas was the last one that I needed telling everyone.
I thought I would get used to Abraxas after all this time, but knowing that he is mated to Maddie and not doing anything about it, made me so angry that I wanted to smack him in the face. Repeatedly
It made it a hundred times worse that only Neah and I knew the truth. Maddie didn’t want us to say anything she thought the other
Lycans would turn against her if they knew the turht. Neah had suggested leaving the pack, but Maddie insisted that it was the first place she had felt safe.
I grab a cup of tea and take it out to the porch. Before I even have a chance to sit down, Abraxas is making his way towards me. He stops a few metres away from me. “Have you seen Klaus?”
“Not since earlier.” He nods and turns away from me. “He isn’t like you.”
Klaus had been open when telling us what he found out about his past. And thankfully, Klaus and Abraxas were nothing alike and I wanted it to stay that way. Klaus was a kind guy, he wasn’t an asshole like the Hunter standing in front of me and I didn’t want him to change.
“I didn’t say he was. And I’m not sure I care for your attitude.”
“My attitude?” I snort and inhale too much tea at the same time, forcing it to erupt from my nose like a volcano as I splutter
He smirks at me and my fingers tighten around the cup, ready to launch it at him. His hazel eyes move to my hand and the smirk turns into a grin. “That pup seems to have got you worked up already.”
“What the fuck did you say?”
He stares at me, yet doesn’t repeat his words. Surely he couldn’t tell already, I was barely pregnant.
Abraxas tilts his head to one side, “You heard me.” He winks and turns away, I launch my cup at him anyway, only for his hand to reach out and catch it.
He turns and walks right up to me, carefully placing the empty cup on the stone porch next to me. “I will let that one go, this time.”
His eyes flicker in past the open door.
“She’s not here.” I mumble
“Who?”
“Your Lycan mate.”
“I don’t have a Lycan mate.” He mutters as his forehead wrinkles into a frown. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
“Why are you denying it?” I push, “Just reject her.”
“Rejecting her would imply that we are mated. As we are not, I cannot reject her. I have told Neah the same thing.”
“It’s not the truth.” He denied any ounce of it being a possibility. Maddie was clear though. She knew exactly who her mate was and had no reason to lie about it.
He grins at me. “It’s my truth, Mallory. My mate was a huge part of my life. I can not just move on.”
“How long were you together before Blair killed her?” I ask. Abraxas never spoken about his mate, his unborn child or his parents.
“Twelve years.”
“She was a Hunter too?”
“She was, and a fucking good one.”
“I’m sorry that Blair took them away from you.”
“It’s not your apology to make. You weren’t involved.”
“Your child, the one who didn’t make it….”
“He died in utero. Had already passed before made it home. I couldn’t save him. My advice to you. Don’t do anything reckless, protect that little one. We all know you rush into things and think about the consequences later. Now is the time to change that.” It felt like he was trying to find a way to not talk about his family, but not in a way that involved telling me to shut up.
Damien has always said people have secrets that they don’t want others to discover
“Why do you care? You don’t like our kind?”
“I didn’t say I cared.” He wanders away without even looking back and quite quickly, a trail of young female wolves appear, following him as they giggle until they all disappear out of sight.
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