Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
Cooper continues to lie on the ground. After a few seconds, he starts laughing. “You don’t get it, do you?” He muses
“What is there to get?” I step on his ankle and he tries to kick me with his other leg. “You killed three members of the pack.”
“They were going to kill me. You never said I couldn’t kill anyone. You should be more clear when it comes to the rules, Alpha Dane.”
I press on his ankle with my entire weight and watch him screw up his face in pain.
“Maybe you are right. Maybe I should have been more clear.” I mock and take my foot off of him. I wave everyone forward. I see the panic settle in as he realises there is no way out.
“I was just saving them!” He shouts out as several Wolves grab hold of his limbs and start pulling.
Just pull until they pop out of the joints.’ I want to enjoy every moment of this
Cooper struggles against them, until I hear the satisfying pop of his knee joints that are quickly followed by his hips. He lets out a scream as his shoulders are dislocated too. The Wolves drop him and he lies still, moaning in pain.
It takes a few moments, but eventually they heal
“Toes!” I call out and a couple of Lycans swap places with the Wolves, sinking their claws into his toes and ripping several digits off.
He screams, sits up and grabs his ankles as blood spurted out the end of his feet. Just a couple of toes remain on each foot.
*You could have just walked away, Cooper. The moment you found out Blair was a half sibling to the Alpha, you should have never shown yourself. You should have just gone home.”
*You will pay for this!” Cooper yells at me.
“Who do you think you are going to tell? Look around you. Do you think you will have a life after this? There is only one way this hunt ends.”
He glares at me
*Saving people, or whatever you call it, is worse than cruel. You say you are doing the Moon Goddesses work. So tell me, why would she want that done to her own creations?”
I wait for him to say something, but nothing comes
*Just as I thought. You use it as an excuse. Everything that comes out of your mouth is an excuse in one way or another. You hate lies and yet your whole persona is built on one. Do you even know your own truth?”
“Cunt!” He snaps at me
The others growl and from the corner of my eye, I see Brax appear with an axe.
“Take off his foot.” I tell him
*Happily.” Brax steps forward, taking my place and dropping a backpack on the ground. “Hold him!” He asks a couple of the others.
Two Lycans pin Cooper down and Brax grins at him. “This will hurt. I made sure it was blunt especially for this occasion. This is for Madison.”
He swings it down, just above Cooper’s right ankle. The axe barely cuts through to the bone as Cooper lets out a blood curdling scream.
It takes five swings before the foot is completely removed. Brax bends down and picks up the severed foot and turns around to face me and Neah with a smile. Splashes of blood covered his face and body. He may not have been able to make the final kill, but he seemed happy enough with this.
Cooper passes out. From the pain, the shock or maybe the blood loss. But I don’t care. I will wait until he wakes up and let the torture continue.
Brax casually pulls a pair of shorts out of the backpack and hands them to me. “We don’t all need to see what you are packing.”
I roll my eyes at him, but take them as Cooper starts to come around. Moving over to my mate, I smile at her.” Your turn.”
She steps forward and grabs him by the footless leg. Dragging him across the ground, Neah rips him up until he is hanging upside down. I watch her inspect the wound. Very slowly, she slides a single claw in, just beneath the surface of the skin.
Cooper’s screams fill the forest but it just cheered everyone on. Everyone here wanted a piece of him.
Neah’s claw circles the entire leg, slicing deeply like she is using a knife. Slowly, she starts to peel the flesh back from the muscle, rolling it down like it was a sleeve. Pausing every so often to slice off any attachment.
*STOP! PLEASE STOP!” He screams out
“I bet that’s what they all said to you, wasn’t it?” I ask as Neah continues
“Just kill me.” He begs
*There’s plenty of time for that. You’ve still got all your fingers”
He vomits as Neah reaches the knee cap, but she stops and drops him. Leaving his skin rolled up around his knee and the muscle exposed.
He vomits again as he looks at his leg.
“You live by the motto that there is always someone worse. Well, you have found us. You should be careful. you never know people, not really.”
Neah stands over him and rips his tee open. Her claws slice down his chest and with one quick movement, she rips the skin back, exposing everything underneath. Cooper couldn’t speak even if he wanted to. His eyes roll back and he passes out again.
They can rip him apart now.’ Neah links me.
I wave everyone forward as Neah steps back next to me. Teeth and claws sink into his flesh as everyone fights for a piece. It takes seconds for his arms and legs to be ripped from his torso. Cooper opens his eyes for a brief second, letting out a gargled scream until a very large Lycan rips his head from his torso.
It takes me a moment to realise it was Samara.
Pieces of flesh scattered the clearing. Everyone and everything in the area was covered in his blood. The group part for Neah. She moves to the remainder of his torso and plunges her claws into the chest, pulling out the heart. Holding it in her hand, she stares at it for a while and then closes her fingers around it and squeezes until it explodes.
Neah
It was so satisfying.
I roll the remainder of his heart in the palm of my hand as the deep red blood slowly drips from my fingers. No one could survive that. Not even him.
My eyes flicker up to Samara. She is still in Lycan form but sat on the ground, right next to the head she removed. The first kill is always overwhelming. Something takes over and it just kind of happens. For her, it might have been Dakota taking the lead.
Behind her, hiding behind a tree is Blair. The moment she realises that I could see her, she turns around and runs through the forest. At least she was heading back to the grounds.
Damien drops out of the tree, landing a few feet from me. He grabs my wrist and turns it over letting the crumpled up heart fall to the ground.
‘Go.’ He links me. ‘I will burn what’s left.’
There’s nothing else we can do here. Nyx murmurs
I turn around to find Dane waiting for me. His crimson eyes lock on mine and he smiles. He always did enjoy watching me kill.
“There’s something in there for Neah.” Brax calls out. I look to see him pointing out the backpack that was by Dane. Dane swipes it up and pulls out a shirt for me.
As I shift, Dane wraps the soft fabric around me, threading my arms through the sleeves. He slowly fastens the buttons, working from the top down. “We need to get you cleaned up.” He murmurs with a smile.
“Blair was here.” My words were barely as whisper but my head was buzzing
“I expect she wanted to watch.” He keeps his eyes on mine as he fastens the final button. “Wouldn’t you if the person in question had almost destroyed your life.”
He takes my hand and leads the way through the forest. “The people he killed?” I mutter, looking back over my shoulder. “We can’t just leave them.”
*They will be handled with respect.” Dane tells me as he pulls back a branch for me. “They put their lives on the line and as much as I hate that we lost them, it drove the others forward. They were all too happy to rip him apart for what he did. And they would do it again and again if they could.”
As we get to the edge of the forest, I could see Blair talking to Maddie and sitting a few metres from them is the new person, Eris.
*Did Maddie get her abilities back? Blair did and so did Eris.”
Dane nods, “She can smell Brax again. Heal and hear better, but just like before, she still can’t shift, but that wasn’t anything to do with Cooper. That is something else entirely.” He stops me moving any further. “Are you going to tell me about the new woman?”
I was half surprised she was still here. She could have left the moment we were no longer present. But I guess she was sticking around because of Damien. “She is Damien’s mate.”
His brows knit together. “His mate?”
I nod.
“Already? I didn’t think it would happen this fast.”
I shrug my shoulders because I don’t know how it worked. I was sort of still mated to Kyle when Dane came into my life. I didn’t think that was possible.
*And Cooper had her locked up in the house.” I mutter. There hadn’t been time to explain everything. As soon as I realised snapping his neck hadn’t worked. I linked Dane to set up the hunt.
“Why?”
“I don’t really know the ins and outs but Klaus said she was okay. The priority was Cooper.”
We walk over to her and she jumps up on her feet. She drops her head to Dane and sticks out her hand. “I’m Eris. Thank you for letting me be here. Do you know where Damien is?”
“He is just clearing up. He will be back soon.”
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