Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Amy. We know what Thalia is.” I whisper. I point to Xavi, “She cursed him to never be able to shift.” I gesture to Orion, “She cut out his tongue. I know she is helping your father. Your father wants to kill your niece. We want to help you!”
“No father.” She mutters as her hair falls over her face. She rocks side to side. “No father.”
‘What does she mean?’ Xavi asks
*Serkan. Your father….
*NO FATHER!”
‘I don’t understand,” Xavi mutters, “You said he is.”
‘Neah is her niece. Serkan is Neah’s grandfather. I know. I did her family tree.’ I study her. Why was she saying he is not her father?
“I need you to keep watch.” I had to link Dane. Maybe there was something that I didn’t know.
I wait for Xavi to position himself. Orion joins him as I search for the connection between me and my Alpha. Dane?’
‘Klaus!’ He sounds relieved. ‘It’s so good to hear from you.’ His familiar voice rumbles through my head. ‘Are you okay? Are you in trouble?”
I’m in White Cliffs with Brax.’
There’s a pause. “How the fuck did you end up there?”
“It’s a long story but I’m here now and we found Amelia Kitson.
‘Neah’s aunt?’ He scoffs. ‘Silas said she was wiped from history. She’s dead.’
‘I’m looking at her now. She is very much alive and is being held in a dungeon. Everything is not as it seems here. The people in White Cliffs are under some sort of spell. The dead lay in the streets with no smell and the living are unable to see them. No one is allowed to leave. Thalia has more control and Amelia…Well, she is not completely with it and she keeps saying her father is not her father.’
‘Klaus, you need to get out of there!’ I hear his concern
‘Not until the Witch is dead and the curse is broken on my mate.’
There is another pause ‘Your mate?
‘Yes.’
He doesn’t ask any questions about Xavi. ‘There’s not much I can do from here. I can’t leave Neah, she has just had twins. Girls. He announces proudly
‘She’s had them?’ She wasn’t due for another couple of months.
‘It’s a long story, but she is safe. We need to focus on you. I’m not sure what I can do to help from here. We did run into Serkan a while ago. He mistook me for my twin. Brax and Damien went after him in a car chase but he disappeared and hasn’t been seen since.’
‘Can Neah link him?”
‘That’s the problem.’ He murmurs. ‘She can find no connection to him in any shape or form. It’s almost as though he doesn’t exist. But I have seen him with my own two eyes. I killed his chauffeur. If you are with Brax, I’m sure you are aware that Serkan is a Rogue.”
‘I am.”
*NO FATHER!”Amelia screeches from her cell as she stares at me.
‘Silas was made to believe that he and Thalia are mated.’ Dane continues. ‘We have finally got through to him, but we don’t think it will last.
Yes I know. His real mate filled me in.’ I reply
‘His real mate? What’s her name?’
‘Indy. Maybe it will help him.’ I don’t know how much it would help, but it was worth a try. This Thalia had done a real number on people. What has Silas told you about Thalia?’
Brax
“What’s happening?” Indy’s heart rate speeds up as her hands move along the wall, desperately patting for an exit.
*This is Thalia,” I growl. We are closed in on all sides. Plunging us into complete darkness that even I was struggling to see through. The only thing that is clear is Indy’s bright soul, though it is slowly being taken over by panic.
“I’m still here,” I add as I make my way toward her. “You are not alone.”
“We are trapped! How are you so calm?” I could tell she was trying hard not to break, but it was only a matter of time.
“You’ve told Orion. The others will be along to find us. The Witch Hunters, remember.” There is no point in panicking in a situation like this. All it leads to is more problems.
“One is stuck as a fucking Wolf!” Her hands slap the wall.
In some ways, she reminded me of Madison. Quick to panic when things no longer made sense.
“Indy, has Orion said anything?”
“No.” I watch her soul drift down the wall as she slumps to her ass. “I let her take Silas from me. I just stood there and watched him forget me like a curtain pulled down over his eyes. I didn’t try. I didn’t do anything. I’m never going to see him again, am I?”
“Yes, you are. I made a deal. I am getting you back to Silas. But you might have to dig deep and find those damn fucking Witch abilities of yours because these walls are fucking moving.”
*It’s not my imagination?” She whispers
“No.” It is so gradual that it’s barely noticeable, but it was still happening. Millimetres at a time. A way to mess with our heads, knowing that a slow death is coming. Thalia couldn’t even kill us herself, she had to squash us with some pathetic trick.
A cackle rips through the small room. “Little girl, you couldn’t just leave it alone, could you?”
“Why don’t you show yourself?” I yell into the darkness.
“Oh Hunter, how fun it is going to be to watch your brains explode all over those walls. I might need to record it, just so I can watch it over and over.”
“Bitch!”
“Don’t you mean Witch?” She cackles.
Indy’s hand finds mine and she pulls me close whispering “They found Amelia.”
It was the last thing I was expecting to hear.
*Little girl, where is that tongueless friend of yours? I’m sure he would like to watch your death. I saw you both, trying to hide from sight after investigating the tower. You thought we didn’t see you. You thought that you had got away with that little game of yours. I watch you, little girl, I watch you every damn day.”
I put a hand over Indy’s mouth. Thalia hadn’t seen Indy, she had seen Xavi.
*Though I am impressed at how you overcame my spells to sneak in the Hunter.” Thalia continues, “Tsk tsk. You are like a naughty child, sticking her nose in places it isn’t wanted. I’ve let you live and have enjoyed watching your torment because my dear mate Silas has no interest in you.”
Indy mumbles something against my hand, stopping when I use my hand to turn her head from side to side. I’m all for putting people down, however Thalia was on some kind of rant. Information can come from a rant.
Such as why she was calling Indy, little girl”?
Thalia was at the most a few years older than Indy, that was it, but she spoke as though there was a large age gap between them.
*It’s a shame that nothing was in the tower, wasn’t it, little girl? What did you think you were going to do? Free them? Finally escape with them? We both know you can’t get across the river, Indy. You would have led them to their death. You put our kind to shame. You put the Wolves to shame.”
“I will tell you this, they are all dead, every last one of them had their throat slit. Though I have to admit, their blood was rather delicious, like a fine wine.”
A tear rolls down Indy’s cheek and hits my hand. I already had an idea that being a half-breed was not something Indy was proud of. That it had probably been used all her life to hold her back. Though knowing that she did nothing more to help the prisoners has her rattled with guilt.
“A brave challenge for you Hunter, if only you hadn’t had any help. It would have made my day to see your body on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. I guess this way, it is…final.”
The wall moves a little more, pressing into my back. Indy’s grip on me tightens.
“I will ask you again, little girl. Where is that other brat?”
I remove my hand from her mouth and she shouts “I don’t know.”
“Do you think I’m stupid? My magic doesn’t affect you. The music doesn’t affect you. That means you are still able to link him. Where the hell is he?”
Indy always said it was potions. The tunnel beneath her house was concealed with one, the blue liquid to take our scents away. As I stare at her in the darkness, I realise that it is her Witch half that is protecting her from Thalia’s spells, not potions. She could be our chance at getting out of here.
Is that why Xavi had a problem with her? Did he see her potential?
I couldn’t speak to Indy without Thalia hearing.
I had two options, mark her, but then Madison and I could never be together again and it would be the same for Silas and Indy. The other option is a blood tie, but even that can bring on a whole load of shit, we wouldn’t be able to do anything with our mates not until it was broken but at least it could be broken.
I stare at Indy. It was shit that we could deal with later if it meant we got to live.
Tugging Indy to her feet, I pull her in against me, pressing my lips close to her ear and dropping my voice to barely a whisper. “I need you to trust me.”
“We are about to die!” She whispers back
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