Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
*The real Serkan is dead, isn’t he?” It would explain why Dane said Neah could find no link to him.
“Of course he is alive.” She smiles at us. “And he has gone to do what Silas could not.” I didn’t believe it.
*Serkan is dead. The man that is pretending to be him is not a Kitson.”
There is a flash of anger in her eyes.
“I hear your lies, Thalia.”
“What are you?” She demands
*Just a Wolf,* I mutter.
She launches the fireball at the thick cloud that separates us. Orion drops to the floor while Xavi and I remain rooted to the spot.
Thalia glares at us, trying to figure out why we didn’t move. “What potion did she give you?! Or did another Witch help you like they helped your Hunter friend?”
“Witch, Witch, Witch,” Amy mutters from her cell.
I feel Xavi’s gaze on me, but I refuse to break eye contact with Thalia.
‘Is she trying to tell Thalia that a Witch helped us or is she trying to tell her that we are Witch Hunters?
It didn’t matter either way.
*So it seems that only you can talk,” Thalia mutters with a smile. “We could change that. A Wolf. A tongueless idiot. Maybe I could take away your ability to hear.” She smiles to herself and clicks her fingers.
Nothing happens. I still hear the heavy breathing of her oblivious guards. I still hear the beating heart of my mate. “What was supposed to happen?” I stare at her, but I also feel Xavi watching me.
She clicks her fingers again, and then again, growing more irritated when nothing happens.
‘Nothing happened?” Xavi asks, concern etched in his tone.
“What the hell are you?!” Thalia snaps
*A Hunter. A Witch Hunter.” I mutter just as there is an explosion somewhere above us.
Bits of stone fall from the ceiling, and Thalia backs up. Her attention moves from me to the falling debris. “No. No. This is not happening. She isn’t even a pure breed.”
“Move!” She screams at her guards as the clunking of a metal chain winds itself up. Her feet hit the steps as she races away. Her guards close behind her. Somehow, after everything that happened, her guards still acted like we weren’t even here.
‘The door!’ Xavi mutters
I turn around to see him watching Amy’s cell door rise.
“Amy, come on.”
*Not safe. Danger, Danger everywhere.”
Orion creeps under the rising door and lifts her from the ground, draping her over his shoulder. Amy doesn’t protest other than her mutterings about it not being safe.
The clinking of the turning chain stops. “Orion, move.”
He ducks under the gate and the moment he is free, the cell door drops, slamming into place.
*Indy?” I ask Orion
He gives me a thumbs up.
Brax must have found a way for them to escape. But now we had to kill Thalia or try to get out of this place alive.
Brax
‘Dig deep.’ I tell Indy through our connection. You have to find a fucking way.”
‘I’m not a good Witch. I was never good at it.’
I hear howls in the distance. Possibly below us somewhere.
‘We are going to die.’
‘Is that what you want? You want our insides smeared across the walls? Do you really want to give the bitch the satisfaction?”
‘No. I…. The walls close in. It wouldn’t be long now and we would be sandwiched on all sides.
Howls grow louder and the walls appear to stop.
*Thalia,” I call out, knowing she couldn’t resist knowing we were close to death.
She doesn’t answer.
*Thalia!”
*Orion said they are trying to buy us time.” Indy whispers.
*Indy, she thinks you are weak. She believes she can just walk all over you and you are letting it happen.”
“I am weak.”
“I don’t believe that. I see a lot of confused souls and yours isn’t one of them. She has made you believe that you can’t do this. She took away the one thing that gave you strength. I know I’m not your mate, and we are just Blood Tied, but you can use that. You have to. I’ve watched people get stronger by being connected to someone.”
“While we can still breathe, you need to do something. Concentrate, Search your memory for anything different. Something that happened a long time ago that you have buried deep down inside you.”
I squeeze her hand. “I’m not going anywhere.”
“You are like an annoying brother!” She tuts at me in the darkness.
I hear a muffled screech from below. I had no idea what they were up to. But I’m sure Thalia would make it so she returned to us as soon as possible.
Indy’s breathing slows. “There’s something from when I was younger. It’s not clear. I hated school. Like, really hated it. Witches were singled out. They were expected to be great. Powerful. I wasn’t. One day, the teacher was being a dick and all I kept wishing was for the school to crumble.”
“It did, didn’t it?”
*Bits of the ceiling at first. Then the cracks appeared in the wall from floor to roof. Everyone screamed and ran for cover.” There is a tiny hint of amusement in her tone. “I’ve never told anyone that.”
“They didn’t suspect it was you?”
“Orion doesn’t even know. But Brax, I don’t know how I did it. It just happened.”
*It happened because you wanted it to happen.”
Her fingers tighten around mine and she falls quiet. Seconds later, the cracks could be heard, snaking through the cracks.
“Keep going,” I whisper.
The walls are almost rattling around us. Indy is tense as she concentrates. Her nails dig into my skin as dust falls from above. Glimmers of light flicker through the cracks and the stone shatters, causing a sound like a bomb to go off as the walls tumble around us.
Indy’s eyes and mouth are wide open. “I did it.”
“You did.”
She throws her arms around my neck, pressing herself against me. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,”
“We need to move,” I tell her, climbing over the rubble and pulling Indy with me. No doubt the sound would alert Thalia.
We leg it through the corridor, cracks lingered on every stone wall we passed.
“What the fuck!” Thalia screeches
‘Keep moving.’ I tell Indy.
“Fucking find them!”
‘We are going to die,’ Indy mutters.
‘Not if I can help it!’
We turn a corner and find another set of steps that lead up, taking us further into the castle. You are going to bring this whole place down once we are all out.
‘What?’
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