Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
She glances over to where Dane is talking to Kade.
“Within reason.” Neah mutters
“I understand.”
I didn’t. There was clearly a secret I didn’t know. I follow Neah up the steps. “Are you going to tell me what that was about? She is his sister, so what is it she isn’t allowed to tell him?”
Neah stares back at me. “What is it that you are not telling me?”
Neah
“You left with Maddie and all that you left was a note.” I stare at him. “You come back and you say that you have figured out what was wrong with you, but you haven’t said what that is. Are you fixed Brax? Or are you going to deny it like everything else?”
“Okay, I get it, you are pissed!”
‘Understatement of the year!’ Nyx rolls her eyes
“I went home. That’s it. I went home hoping to find something and that brother of her’s” He points at the dungeon door, “Projected himself into my home and held a fucking kitchen knife to Madison’s throat. He somehow convinced her to inject something into me.”
“Maddie injected you?”
“At some point, yes. She doesn’t know when. She doesn’t even remember doing it.” He pulls a tiny black ball from his pocket and holds it up to the light for me to see, “Like I said, it has been dealt with.”
“What is it?”
“That is something I haven’t figured out yet. There’s nothing to it. It doesn’t do anything as I hold it. Yet when it hit the tray, it sounded like metal. But when it was inside of me, it was draining me. It was making me weaker and weaker.”
“Has she been forced to do that to others? What about her? Is that how she lost her abilities?”
He shakes his head at me. “I scanned her, there was nothing. Cooper is methodical.”
‘There has to be something.’ Nyx murmurs. ‘No one is perfect. Everyone slips at some point.’
“Are you sure Maddie is clean?” I ask
He nods at me. “He scares her. He makes her fidgety, nervous. She couldn’t even hold a conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled her of how easily he has manipulated her.”
He looks me up and down. “Now are you going to tell me what you are planning?”
“I haven’t figured it all out yet.”
“Right.” I could hear the scepticism in his tone. “But it has something to do with Samara, doesn’t it?”
I don’t respond.
“I will take that as a clear sign that you don’t want to say anymore.” I watch him strut away just as Dane appears next to me.
He doesn’t speak, but his hand slips into mine and he tugs me in the direction of the forest.
“What happened with Emerson?” He asks when we are far enough in the trees that no one could see us. “I know you would have had a good reason. “Where is the body?”
“Damien dealt with it. I saw the blood on your fingers and asked him to find out who it was and to clear it up before anyone notices.”
“Emerson didn’t want me here or any of the Lycans. He made it very clear.”
“The hole in the tee is from him, right?” Dane queries
I glance down at my top. “His blade. Brax shot him.”
“Okay.” He sits on a fallen tree and reaches out for my hand. His brows dip as a small frown appears.
“Why did you bring me into the forest?”
“You need a moment. A moment you are not going to get while surrounded by other people.”
“I’m fine….”
“I didn’t say you’re not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed for everything to make sense.”
I sit on the tree next to him and feel my body relax. The last couple of days had just been filled with constant news and before there was really time to process one thing, something else was happening. I hadn’t really had time to think about the new pregnancy either,
“I need him dead.” I mutter quietly. “I can’t keep living like this.”
“We will find a way.” Dane replies. “There is always a way to take someone down.”
“I want to try something,” He waits for me to expand. “He has lost Samara. I see it when I look at her. She was slow to see it, but now she does. She was disgusted that Cooper went after Kade.”
“You truly believe her?”
“Frustratingly, yes.” I sigh, I wasn’t sure how he was going to take it. want Klaus to take Samara to him. I think both of them are the key to helping me kill him.”
He studies me, “And what are you going to do?”
“Shred him.” I hold my claws up to him
‘And gut him’ Nyx adds gleefully
“Not if I beat you to it.” He smiles at me. “The asshole is slowly destroying my pack, right in front of me. No one has ever done that. The pack had always been strong, united. But gradually…..” He shakes his head in frustration. “I’m not letting it continue.”
‘Cooper will be dead by the end of the week.’ Nyx murmurs. ‘Dane didn’t disagree with our plan.’
*****
The twins lay between us on the bed in Mallory and Eric’s spare room. They slept soundly and both in Human form. I had only been away for a short time but I missed them so much. Even watching them made my heart ache.
“When the house is rebuilt, I think we are going to need a bigger bed. Especially when the new pups come along.”
“Excuse me!” I whisper, trying to not wake the boys up. “Pup, not pups!”
He smiles at me, “One, two or even three. I don’t care, as long as you and they are healthy.” He leans over the boys and kisses my cheek Why does he keep saying they? I ask Nyx if there is something she needs to tell me.
‘Too early.’ she mutters quietly. ‘Let’s focus on the main problem.’
Multiple times I wake with a foot in my face or a finger up my nose. For two small boys, they certainly moved around alot in their sleep.
In the end I get up and sit in the rocking chair that Mallory had left for me. The boys wiggle their way on to Dane’s chest and though I enjoyed watching them. Though, I couldn’t help but think of the way I was going to kill Cooper. I didn’t want him ruining anymore lives and I certainly didn’t want him anywhere near my children.
Quietly, I change into a pair of jeans and a hoodie, pulling on my boots, I sneak out of the house and head to Klaus’s place. The lights are still on and when I look through the window, I see him sitting at the table where I had spent so many hours learning to read.
I tap on the window and his deep green eyes pop up to me. “Neah?” He checks his watch. “Has something happened?”
“Cooper needs to be killed.”
“If this is about the Witch Hunter ove stuff again, I think Brax might have been on to something.” He waves me forward and quietly closes the door behind me.
“So we have all been a bit unsure of Brax lately, right?” He continues
I nod. “But apparently it has been sorted. It’s a long story, but….”
“He told me.”
“He told you?” I mutter in surprise, I had to ask him to tell me.
“Yes, He brought that little ball thing to show me. Told me about Maddie.”
“Do you know what it was?”
“No, but without Brax telling me, I knew who it belonged to. I don’t know how or why, but I could smell him when Brax handed it to me.”
“Like a mate scent?”
“Not quite.”
“I don’t follow.” I say with a frown.
“I don’t understand it either.” He tells me. “That’s why all these books are open. I’m trying to find something that will guide me. Something that will help me understand if this is really what I am. But even without reading, a lot of it makes sense.”
“Like Brax, I am different. I’m not driven by the need to belong. I’m not a true pack Wolf, though I love this pack. I will do what is asked of me sure, and understand now why never fitted in, long before I was welcomed here. I was nevero supposed to be a pack member. And this may come as a surprise, but when Cooper is dead, I will be leaving to find my own path.”
Klaus
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