Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Can’t have you looking like that over breakfast.”
“No, I mean why are you doing this?” I stare at him
“I’m trying to show you that I’m not the asshole you think I am.”
I snort.
“They really have you believing that I’m some kind of monster, don’t they?” He shakes his head. “I would never do that to you.”
He reaches out for my face but I retreat. “Is that what you say to all of them? You butter them up, worm your way in and make them believe something that is entirely false? I don’t fall for it like the others. You keep acting like you are doing all this for me. You’re not, you are doing it for yourself, plain and simple.”
“What will it take for you to realise that this is real?”
“Real? I don’t think you know the meaning of the word.”
His eyes narrow, I had hit a nerve. He grabs my shoulders and spins me around, pushing me towards the kitchen. A small smile creeps across my lips. Maybe he was finally seeing that I was not someone he could win over.
Cooper directs me to a chair. “Sit!” He snarls
As I sit he pulls my arms around to my back. He reaches for something and I feel the cool metal of a chain as he wraps it around my wrist. “Let’s try this a different way.” He grabs my head and forces it over. His callous fingers brush my long hair off of my neck.
“Get off of me.”
“You won’t be able to resist me if I mark you.”
“Don’t fucking touch me.” I growl, pulling at the chains. “I am not your mate. You want to know what my birth name is? It does not start with a D.” I lie. “It’s Monroe, Klaus Monroe.”
His fingers pause in my hair. “You are lying.”
“No, I’m not.” I had been prepared to go so far, but there was no chance I was letting him mark me. I would be tied to him until one of us meets our death.
My chair is dragged across the floor.
He squats down, locking his sage green eyes on mine. The blue flecks are darker again, it seemed to
1.n happen when he was on the verge of losing his composure. “What is your name?”
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“Klaus Monroe.” I state clearly and confidently.
“Liar.”
“And you’re an idiot if you don’t believe me.”
“I can smell you. You can’t deny that.”
“Maybe it’s your mind playing tricks on you. Maybe you are so fascinated by me that you want to believe it’s true. I’ve seen stranger things happen.” His strength was definitely not the ability to tell if someone was lying. Idiot.
He softly taps my cheek and turns away. “What’s your favourite topping? I’m going to make you the best damn pancakes you have ever tasted.” “You mean you are going to poison me?”
“No, why would I do that? I have told you already, Klaus. I like you, I like you alot and I want you by my side?”
He was delusional
“What about your true mate?” He was certain it was me, though I will never accept someone like him.
“We will see.”
He turns my chair back around to the table and slides it forward until I’m sitting at the table properly. He moves away, half talking to himself as he pulls out what sounds like a hundred ingredients.
The reflection in the window shows his lips moving but now no sound comes out, it was like he was talking to himself and it’s only when I caught sight of his eyes that I knew he was linking someone. It had to be Samara
Neah
‘What if we just kill her? It’s an option right? No one needs to know until afterwards.’ Nyx asks
‘Because as much as I want to. Dane is right, we need Blair to trade along with Samara. I don’t want Klaus to die. He doesn’t deserve that.’ ‘Okay. So maybe we wait until the deal has been struck. Then we kill her? Make it look like an accident? She is Human now, it will be pretty easy to do., maybe we could let her bleed out? And I know you have thought about it so don’t try telling me you haven’t.’
No thought was ever a secret anymore. Either Nyx was listening or Dane was reading my mind.
‘We are!’ She tuts
‘As much as I want too, I am going to wait, let Dane play this game of his. If something happens, then I will gladly rip her heart out.’
I drop on to the bed and stare up at the ceiling as my body melts into the mattress. The omega had taken the twins to Athena’s and Sebastian’s not long after I left last night. She was young and the twins, even at their young age, knew how to test her patience. Though she hadn’t witness Evrin shift yet.
Shit, I hadn’t warned Athena or Sebastian either.
Closing my eyes, it takes less than a second before I’m hit with a burst of Dane’s woody scent. The door swings open, sending in a rush of cool air. “Are you still mad?” He asks softly.
“No, I’m too tired to be mad.”
He pauses and I knew he was digging through my mind to see if I’m telling the truth.
“Then this might upset you.”
I prop myself up on my elbows to look into his crimson eyes. “What does that mean?”
“Klaus linked me.”
“He linked you? How…. he had….where?” Too many questions were going through my head.
“He was drugged as we expected. But it seems to have worn off, just like Samara’s did.”
I was trying to process how. Samara had claimed she hadn’t had her abilities for a long time. And Maddie and Blair were still Lycan free. “Cooper has him.” Dane continues.
“Where?”
“He doesn’t want us to go and get him. He thinks it’s a trap and it’s exactly what Cooper wants and expects.”
“We can’t just leave him!” I scowl
“We are not. For now, he isn’t hurt, he is safe but he wants to find out more about Cooper and what his intentions are.” “Where is he?” I press
“There’s something else.” He ignores my question. He really didn’t want me to know. “Klaus has asked me to speak to Blair about the scent Cooper had. The one he used to trick her into believing he was her mate.”
“Wh….” I catch myself when it dawns on me what he is saying. “He thinks Cooper is his mate?”
“He has categorically said he won’t accept him even if he is. He can’t be with someone like Cooper.”
“Is that why he left with him? Because of the possible bond?”
“I don’t know. He cut the link before I had a chance to ask.”
“He cut the link?”
“Yes.” He sighs. “The last thing he told me was that he was not going to accept the bond. It is why he is asking what Blair could smell. If he knows it’s the same thing, he knows it’s a trick. And I’m letting him link me on his terms, when it is likely safe.
“What if it isn’t?” I sigh. “What if the scent is what his mate is supposed to smell? He might not be creating the scent, but instead the idea of the bond. That means everyone he wants will smell the same scent.”
‘For someone so tired, you are on the ball today.’ Nyx mutters, impressed.
I look at Dane who hadn’t said anything, “There’s something else isn’t there?”
“Yes. Cooper is half Witch. He wasn’t using anyone. It’s all been him.”
I puff out my cheeks. The only other Witch I had met was Madame Curie.
“He told Klaus that they carry a mark.”
“Like a Witches mark?”
Dane closes his eyes and nods. “The mark is the initials of their mate.”
“And?” I knew he was purposefully giving the information in small doses. Not for some big effect but so I could take it all in.
“K D.”
I drop back on the bed. “Klaus Daudet.”
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