Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Because you didn’t like what she was saying?” I protest as he ushers me around to the passenger side of the car and practically pushes me onto the seat.
“No.” His voice drops to a whisper. “I wanted whoever is watching us to hear me say that.”
I start to turn my head. Moments before knocking on the door of Blair’s home, I had a feeling someone was watching us, but there were no scents other than ours and I couldn’t see anyone.
“Keep your eyes on me, Neah. They need to think we are unaware of them. If you start looking around, you will draw more attention.”
“I can’t smell anything.” I mutter as Nyx makes the same declaration.
“We’re not supposed to. They are masking their scent, it’s why I cannot pinpoint a location. There could be more than one.” He whispers back to me. “We are going back to Black Shadow. If they choose to follow us, it is on them. But I made a promise to keep you safe and that is exactly what I am going to do. Now buckle up.”
He slams the door shut, barely missing my fingers and I curse him as I pull the belt around me.
“Do you think it’s this Cooper/Ash guy?” I ask as he speeds in the direction of Black Shadow.
“I’m not sure. Even if he had found a way to mask his own scent, I’m certain I would still be able to scent Madison as he was the one who took her. Madison’s scent wasn’t there.”
“We don’t know if they were watching us or Blair and Samara.”
“Us.” He replies and the car seems to gain more speed. My fingers coil around the belt as though it was going to somehow save me if we crash.
“How can you be certain?” I ask as I grip the belt tighter.
“There is a car following us and it has been since we left.”
I look over my shoulder and the silver car is starting to fall back. It eventually slows to a crawl and pulls off on the grass as we turn the bend. ‘They knew that we knew they were following us.’ Nyx growls
“Lycan or a Wolf?” I ask Brax.
“I believe they are Lycan.”
“Believe?”
“Masked scent makes it trickier, I may be wrong, it could be Wolves, but I would rather not stick around to find out.”
“Is it easy to mask scents?”
“No. It takes a lot and is a well thought out process.”
I stare at him. There was so much that I didn’t know about him. Only little bits of information came through when he decided to share. He wasn’t the type of Wolf that you could force information from either.
I look over my shoulder again. I couldn’t see the car anymore. “They’re gone.”
Brax bobs his head, but doesn’t slow down. We almost hit a car coming in the opposite direction. He finally slows down until we come to a stop and I breathe a sigh of relief. I kad only been in cars a handful of times and they made me nervous.
“You’re worried about Maddie. We will find her.” I offer, hoping it would make him feel better.
He takes his eyes off the road for a second to look at me. His face is unreadable, but slowly, a smile appears. “You’re right, we will.”
Just as he starts the car, something.
slams into us from behind. The seatbelt constricts around me as att my organs are thrown forward and I have the urge to vomit. Sharp pain rips through my chest and stomach as the seat belt cuts into me.
I look over to Brax, but he isn’t in the driver’s seat, his body is stuck halfway through the windscreen, broken glass cutting into him as blood spurts from multiple wounds.
‘Neah don’t move.’ Nyx tells me, but she is just as dazed as I am.
“I have to help him.” I mutter back, fiddling with the belt clip
‘Dane is coming.’ Nyx groans. ‘Just stay put.’
I don’t listen and unclip the seatbelt, pulling it from my flesh and sending my own blood splattering across the car.
It takes me a moment to find the door handle as Nyx continues to tell me to stay still. ‘He’s coming. I can hear him. Dane’s coming.’
I couldn’t hear him. All I could hear was her and the blood rushing between my ears. My head ached and I could barely see straight, the smell of fuel fills my nostrils. I fling the door open just as I’m thrown forward again. My wrist cracks as I’m slammed into the dash followed by a crack in my pelvis as I try to move.
The contents of my stomach reveal themself along with huge amounts of blood.
I’m thrown a third time and my head hits something sharp before I fall back in my seat. It was getting harder and harder for me to breathe. Everything inside of me felt torn up.
“BRAX!” I force out, but it comes out all breathy with no real sound. He wasn’t moving as I cough up more blood.
“We haven’t got time. We have to get them now!” A male voice hollers.
“We’ve got plenty of time.” A woman mutters
“She’s mated to Dane. He’s probably already on his way.” Another man snaps
“Then we better hurry up. She is an Alpha too, remember. If she’s not dead, she can heal quickly. We need to get this done now. Before he comes looking for her.
I close my eyes as the footsteps move closer, willing myself to heal. I needed to heal just enough to fight back, just enough so I can shift and rip their fucking hearts out!
“Kill him first.” The woman mutters. “We don’t need that bastard shooting everyone. Or learning about us.”
I hear more glass shatter, and the sound of something heavy being dragged across the ground. Seconds later, a round of shots are fired and a single tear creeps down my cheek. Brax hadn’t stood a chance against whoever these scentless people were.
‘Nyx, we need to shift and I can’t do it on my own right now.’ I beg. This was the only way I was going to survive.
‘We are too weak.’ She tells me as a new wave of nausea hits me
Someone grabs my wrist and I prepare to swing my broken one at the person. “Neah, it’s me.” Brax mutters. “Open your eyes, look at me.”
I stare at him in shock. “You… you’re alive?!!” I feel the blood seep from the corner of my lips. He uses his thumb to wipe it away.
“I had to play dead. It was the only way to get you out of here. Can you walk?”
I shake my head at him and a sharp pain goes up my neck. I fight to keep the vomit down. “I’m not… I don’t think I’m healing.” My lungs are barely filling with oxygen.
He glances over his shoulder, trying to decide what to do.
“Did you kill them?” I cough and more blood comes up.
“To fucking right. Fucking arseholes. And now need to get you out of I here.” He slips an arm behind my knees and forces the other behind my back. “This is going to hurt.”
Brax lifts me out of the car as I cry in pain. Somehow, the breaking of bones when you are not shifting is so much more painful.
He places me on the ground and meor adjusts my legs and hips as footsteps come running towards us.
Dane’s scent is strong and I’m so happy that Nyx was right. He drops down next to me as my pelvis clicks itself back into place.
He cups my face and uses a cloth to wipe the blood from my chin. “Don’t talk. I’ve got you. You are going to be fine.”
“What the fuck happened?” He demands from Brax as he picks broken glass out of my face.
“These fuckers crashed into the back of us.” Brax tells Dane.
I turn my head, ignoring the pain in my neck to see who Brax was talking about. Three dead people lay on the side of the road. Eric stands over them with a frown. Each one had a bullet lodged in their skull.
I knew all three of them.
Wolves from Black Shadow.
Neah
I push myself upright too quickly and feel the blood rush to my head.
‘Nyx, are you good?’
She groans back at me and I leave her alone. As long as I could still hear her, she was still with me.
“Neah, stay still.” Dane tells me
“No…it’s fine. I’m almost healed.”
He reluctantly holds out a hand to help me as I get on my feet. I think he knew that I was going to get up regardless and there was no point trying to stop me.
Dane continues to hold on to me as we make our way across the road towards the three dead Wolves, like I was somehow going to fall face first into the ground any second.
The Wolves were interesting, even after death, neither one of them had any scent. How had they masked it from us? Especially Brax, he had always been able to single out the different species. However they had done it, it must have been recently.
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