Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“It’s nothing.”
He cocks a brow at me. “You are a rubbish liar. Did you know that?”
“And you can be really irritating! And you are worse when you haven’t killed anyone.”
“Think of it as keeping me sane. It’s getting harder and harder for me to be who I am. I’m a Hunter, you know that. I used to go out and kill nightly. Being here, around Madison, you and even Mallory is making it almost impossible to be the man I was raised to be.”
“See, not all Lycans are assholes.”
He smiles at my comment
“That’s why you want to go after Cooper? You need to kill?”
He nods. “I need blood shed. Hunter’s thrive on it.”
“Klaus doesn’t.”
“Are you sure about that?”
“He’s not really a killer.”
“He likes to help in the hospital a lot, doesn’t he? Maybe he just thrives in a different way. Though I don’t think he would make a great Hunter, he is too…. relaxed. But there are elements of it in him. Excellent diversion tactic by the way.”
“I wasn’t trying to divert you.”
“And yet you succeeded. You may not be a good liar, but you are good at digging out information. So come on, what’s plaguing your mind?” I shake my head at him.
“Come on, I told you something about me, it’s only fair that you return the favour.”
“Samara?” I puff my cheeks out.
“She linked me in her sleep. No one has done that before. It was strange. I could feel everything she was feeling as she slept. The mom ne like she woke up, it was gone. It was she didn’t know she was doing it and yet it feels like she knew she was.”
“Like her mind connected to you of its own doing?”
I nod.
“Almost like it wasn’t her, it was someone else?”
I nod.
“You have Nyx because you are an Alpha. The same as Dane having Aero. Evrin has his and no doubt Logan will too when the time comes. “Wait, what? Evrin has who?”
“His Lycan spirit.” He smirks at me. “I thought that was obvious after he shifted.”
Nyx doesn’t say anything and I feel her retreating, though it wasn’t like she had anywhere to hide.
‘You already knew, didn’t you?’ I snap at her
‘I didn’t want to worry you.’
“She doesn’t carry Alpha genes.” Brax continues “Because you are the last female Alpha.” He takes off his ring and fiddles with it. “You are an only child, correct. Well minus Blair.”
“Yes. Only child from my mother.”
“If she were a sibling, you would have already known.” He turns the ring faster and faster. He had resorted to it after I had told him to keep his guns out of sight.
“Did your mother have any siblings?”
“I don’t know. I don’t remember. I just remember Trey. He was raised to be my brother but was really my uncle… my father’s brother. I don’t, remember meeting anyone on my mother’s side. I’m pretty certain there was no one. Ironically, the best person to ask would be Klaus. He has been researching my family for years. Is that what you think it is? That somehow Samara is family, like a cousin or something?”
Dane
Her blue eyes flicker up to me as I walk in. “Have you heard this?” She scoffs
I dip my head. I had only heard the end of Brax’s speech, “Though I didn’t need to. I had wondered if it was a possibility. But it’s not that. This proves it.” I pass Neah the book that was tucked under my arm.
Damien, Eric and I had been back to Klaus’s house because I knew he had been digging into Neah’s past and I had wondered if there was a connection between Neah, Samara and Cooper especially after Samara was able to link Neah in her sleep. But there wasn’t.
She flicks open the book and folds out the pages. Klaus had been busy and while her father’s side of the family was limited. Her mother’s side wasn’t. There was name after name that eventually went all the way back to Aldous Kitson and then some.
Where Klaus had managed to gather so much information from was beyond me, but it was what he was good at.
“Wow.” She whispers as her fingers trail over the family tree. “This is… It goes all the way…” “It goes back centuries. You know Klaus likes to research.” I smile at her.
I let her study the names and after a few minutes she frowns. “There’s no mention of Samara or Cooper, that’s a good thing right.”
“Yes and no. It means you are not tied to them, thankfully. But it also means we are not making any moves in finding out who they are or what they want. Samara is detached and seems to have a screw loose from the return of her abilities and seems to know nothing other than Cooper sendi9ng her here and even that information is limited.”
“At least I don’t have another half sibling popping up out of nowhere!” Neah tuts and I see the way Brax looks at me. I glare back and he makes his excuses to leave as I sit next to my mate.
She rests her head on my shoulder and her hand snakes onto my thigh. “Is Klaus okay?”
“Yes. He hasn’t managed to get anything else useful out of Cooper yet, but he is working on it.”
“We can’t leave him there.”
“It won’t be forever. Klaus will come back home.” I drape an arm around her shoulders and pull her in closer. “I will make sure of that.”
“What if….”
“It’s not an option, Neah. He has said it himself. He will never accept Cooper.”
She falls silent. “Don’t lose control.” She whispers
“You listen to Brax too much.”
Her eyes peer up at me. “What does that mean?”
“It means you don’t need to worry. We will figure it out.” I kiss the top of her head and she buries herself into me.
“Evrin shifted again. And Brax says he has his Lycan spirit.”
‘Crap. Aero mutters and I ignore him. It wasn’t necessarily a problem.
“Was Evrin okay?”
Neah bobs her head, “He did it in his sleep. I left him sleeping as a little Lycan. I didn’t want to wake him.”
‘In his sleep? Aero mutters. ‘How is that possible, is that even a thing?”
‘I don’t know bu it is now.’ I mutter back.
“Evrin will be fine.” I tell Neah and she sighs.
“We don’t know what this means. Does it mean he is more powerful than Logan? Does it mean he is the next true Alpha? Logan is first born, I thought that is how it works.”
“You are worrying too much. Right now, he is a baby who has only just started walking.” I pull her on to my lap so that she is facing me, her legs straddle my thighs. “But it’s not just him you are worried about, is it? Me, Klaus, Maddie, Damien and probably so many more.” I tuck a strand of her dark behind her ear and her blue eyes lock on mine. “It’s probably one of the hardest things about being an Alpha. You feel responsible for everyone else. Just as one issue settles, something else comes up. It’s a never ending cycle. I grew up expecting that, you didn’t. Though you have adapted to it fairly well.”
She looks away so I turn her face back toward me. “You can’t keep everything to yourself. Some things, yes, but not everything and having me read your mind is not the same as you sharing what’s frustrating you.”
“I’m not weak anymore.” she scowls
“I never said you were.”
“The lack of knowing what Cooper wants, makes me feel like I am. He’s part Lycan which means I should be able to order him or at least link him. But it’s like he doesn’t even exist.”
“That will be his Witch half.”
“But still, it’s present, right? His Lycan?” She frowns
“I would guess that it has something to do with how prominent his Witch genetics are. If he has lived his life as a Witch then I’m guessing it would be stronger than his Lycan half. He might not have even shifted.”
Her brow knits together. “Every possible scenario that I come up with just doesn’t seem or feel right. It’s not like Salem when he was one step ahead and it’s not like Blair when she would taunt us from afar. This guy had only hurt Maddie and taken Klaus and convinced a few Wolves to rebel against the pack. But that’s all. If it had been you, you wouldn’t have wasted time like this. He would already be dead and if he had a pack, they would be too.”
“You’re right. I wouldn’t have waited, but we are not just dealing with Wolves or even Lycans. He is part Witch? They are a whole different ball game. Not all of them are like Madame Curie and she wasn’t exactly squeaky clean.”
“I guess.” She shakes her head at me. “I’m just over it.”
I cock a brow at her, “You are over it?”
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