Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Nah, you have.” Brax grabs my chair and spins me around to face him. “You know that I see things. I couldn’t quite work her out. There’s some truth in her words. And she words things carefully.. She has a front, a very good front, something that she has probably been working on for a long time. But she doesn’t have a scent.”
“Neither do I.” I snap
“You do,” he tilts his head to one side. I know what he is doing. I’ve seen him do it before when he is trying to see deeper into the soubet swallow the lump in my throat, beads of sweat appear on my hairline. Being nervous was a new feeling too. I think I hate this more than I have ever hated anything.
“You smell like a Human, body odour and all. Whereas she has no scent. That’s why she wants to stay with you. Your scent is weak, but it still can attach itself to someone else. She needed it to rub off on her.”
“W..what? No, she had her Lycan taken away just like I did.”
The Hunter shakes his head at me, “Nope.”
“You’re lying.”
He smirks and shakes his head again. “I am not. You should know me better than that, Blair.”
“No one is completely scentless.” I scoff
“That is where you are wrong.” He glances up behind me, like he is waiting for some sort of confirmation. “You passed two burnt out cars on your way here, correct.”
I nod, “The first looked like the one you and Neah left in.”
“The assholes driving the second car had no scent, nothing, just like your friend in the dungeon. The problem is, they Were Wolves. It seems somehow that they have been given something to completely conceal their scents. Just like your blonde friend.”
I try looking over my shoulder at Dane. “He’s bullshitting me, right. This is just some twisted mind game to get back at me before you kill me, right?”
“No.”
I turn back to glare at Abraxas. “Then how were you not able to tell she was a Lycan when we first came here. I call bullshit.”
“I’m still trying to figure that out. She covered her scent and somehow she concealed her true identity. But now, it’s wearing off. And she is trapped in the dungeons.” Brax smirks at me. “In fact I have bets that she either wants Cooper to herself or she is the one running the shit show.”
I shake my head. It had to be a trap, some kind of trick. To lure me back here, but they still hadn’t killed me. I knew tricks, I had operated a fair few and I promised myself that after Cooper no one else would succeed. Someone was lying and it wasn’t me.
“She took me in.” I whisper. “She can’t be a Lycan. She told me what happened to her. She has evidence.”
“Part of the trap.” He shrugs his shoulders. “And you fell for it, big time.”
“So what if she did. Why do you care? You could have just told me to go fuck myself.”
“Because like you said, you brought her here and now she is our problem.”
I sit in stunned silence, they had to be wrong. She told me how she escaped. She told me all the things that were done to her. She showed me her box of stuff, the gown, the empty drip bag. What she did to escape.
“And the villain falls.” Abraxas laughs as he spins my chair back around to make me face Dane.
Dane watches me with his jaw clenched. His crimson eyes locked on to mine. It was impossible for me to tell how he was going to react, but the waiting is killing me.
“Go and get Neah.” He mutters to Damien.
I keep my focus on Dane as Damien brushes by me. Minutes go by and no one has said anything. Eventually, two sets of footsteps make their way into the office behind me.
Neah walks around to the other side of the desk, sitting in the large chair, partially hidden by Dane.
“I know you don’t want to listen to me.” I start
The only blue eye I can see focusses on me. “Everyone leave.” Neah demands
Hands land on my shoulders, making me jump. “Looks like you are getting exactly what you want.”
I pick at the material on the edge of the chair’s arm. My arms were still bound to it and the more the nerves set in, the more I looked for something to do to help calm the nerves. The picking of material helped.
The door closes behind the men and Neah doesn’t say anything. I’m not sure if she is waiting for me to talk first or deciding how to proceed.
“Could I…. could I get some water?” I ask quietly
“Would you have killed me?” She asks
“Possibly.” I whisper. The truth, I tell myself, nothing but the truth.
“Did you want Dane too? You wanted to be Alpha, that would mean being his mate.”
“No. It was never about him. I wanted the Lycans. I wanted the Lycans to rise, to become better than the Wolves,” I snort, “To be better than Humans.”
“Wanted?”
“It was a mistake. I know that, it just took losing everything for me to finally see it. And I will keep saying it until you either kill me or belive me.
Claws edge out the tip of her fingers. She flexes her hands and the claws disappear. I needed to choose my words more carefully.
“I told Dane that I had a chance to….”
“I heard. You should have left and taken Samara with you.”
“You believe Abraxas?”
“I was the one who suggested it to him. She reminded me of someone from my past. Doing all the talking, trying to control the situation, I would say you were about three days away from being turned-into a punching bag. I stopped Brax from Kibing you so that I could get more answers.”
“Samara isn’t… Is she still alive?”
“For now.”
“Are you going to kill her?”
“Soon.”
I take a deep breath. “Why haven’t you killed me?”
Neah
It was weird to hear her pleading with me. I had heard it a little bit at her house. Yet now she is full of desperation, a million miles away from how she introduced herself to me. Maybe because she’s surprised to learn the truth about her friend. Maybe because she genuinely meant it.
‘We could just kill her.’ Nyx grins gleefully. ‘She keeps asking. And she was prepared to destroy our life. It only seems fair.’
Blair drops her gaze when I don’t answer her question. “I get it, you’re torturing me. Never letting me know when the final blow is going to come so I live in fear, waiting.” She rocks in her chair. “It’s a weird feeling, fear.”
“You get used to it.” I mutter back. It was a lie, you never get used to it.
She mulls over my words, “Jenson told me everything that happened to you, before Dane?
“I told you too, well some of it, but it didn’t change anything, did it?! Even when you learned how bad things were for me, it didn’t change how you felt. It didn’t change what you thought I deserved or what you deserved. Only now, when you have lost your identity, you claim to have changed.” She knew everything and yet she had still been prepared to ruin my life when she barely knew me. A half sister and she didn’t even bother wanting to get to know me.
Her eyes flick up to me. “You are the Alpha.”
Nyx snorts, ‘How can she be acting like she didn’t know? That was her goal.’
“I..” She pauses for several heartbeats. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow. But what I have learned is that I am not the person I once was. Everything hurts. Everything is different. I’m not who I was and I know you don’t believe that.”
“You’re right, I don’t.”
She sighs. “Maybe this was always the plan for me. You know, payback for the trouble I have caused and inflicted. Maybe this is punishment for Jenson. For you, for everything.” She laughs to herself and shakes her head. “There is always someone worse.”
They had both said that. Blair and Samara. “Who has said that to you?”
“Cooper.” She mutters. “The night he took me, maybe after. I think he was making a point, because he had outsmarted me. Though it seems it’s not hard to do that anymore.” Her brows knit together. “You can link him, right?”
I stare back at her, trying to decide if it’s worth telling her what I know.
“Because he is a Lycan?” She continues. “You can link all Lycans. I heard it when you asked everyone to come here. So you must be able to link him and Samara if she is really a Lycan.”
‘Don’t tell her, she doesn’t need to know.’ Nyx murmurs
“Unless you can’t.” Blair mutters, “But that would be impossible. I can hear you, I know Damien can and Mallory must have linked you. My mother and step father heard your request.”
“I had a connection to Cooper. I check everyone when they arrive here.” I tell her and Nyx groans. “But the connection seems to have evaporated. There isn’t one for Samara either. Brax thinks they are working with a Witch. A powerful one that is able to sever the connection to me.”
“Witches won’t work with Lycan’s. They will work with Wolves but not Lycans.” Blair tells me. “Look, I may not be of use in the physical sense, not anymore, but I still have a lot of knowledge about Lycans. Knowledge that you might now have.”
“A Witch worked with our father.” I mutter
“Don’t….” She starts as her eyes hover on mine. A small crinkle appears on her forehead. “You were bound as a child.”
New Book: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
Dayson was the alpha of the largest pack in North America. Powerful figures from other packs sought to offer gorgeous girls as potential mates for Dayson. He steadfastly rejected these advances, he was not a pawn to be manipulated. But eventually there came a mysterious girl he could hardly say No. Who was she?