Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
You have already started.’ I gesture to the cracks that snake across the ceiling.
I pull Indy to a stop as footsteps come barreling towards us. They were coming from behind us and in front of us.
I catch the scent of Klaus and the others.
Orion appears first. A woman draped over his shoulder but he looks so relieved to see Indy.
“We can hug later,” I mutter to him.
“Where is she?” Klaus asks, “Where is Thalia?”
*I thought she was chasing us.” I look back at the way we came. The pounding footsteps had stopped. This wasn’t over. She was changing tactics.
Xavi watches Indy. Absolute hatred in his amber eyes. He seems to be forgetting that she just saved his life. It may be the Blood Tie that is making me feel this way, but I am ready to rip his throat out if he so much as touches a hair on her head.
*She has the upper hand here. We need to get out.” I tell them
I glance at the woman on Orion’s shoulder. Her eyes are closed and a trickle of blood runs across her temple.
*He knocked her out turning a corner,” Klaus tells me. “She is fine or at least she will be.”
We continue to move through the stone corridors and up multiple levels of steps. There is never a window or another door, just more stone walls.
Indy suddenly stops, pressing her hands against a crack. She glances back at me. ‘I can try.”
I nod.
Xavi watches her. A hint of his sharp teeth on show. I block his path, glaring at him. He could try, but he will never succeed.
“Pack it in, the both of you. We just need to get out of this place!” Klaus snaps
The crack in the wall grows until the early morning light breaks through.
Pieces of the stone fall away, crashing down to the ground below, leaving a massive hole for all of us to look out. We were at least four floors up, maybe even five. Below, the people of the pack stare up at us. Still and silent. Thalia moves between them, her dress dragging along the ground behind her, probably whispering some spell to them.
*How did she get outside so quickly?” Indy whispers
*She knows this place like the back of her hand,” Klaus mutters. “Secret doors, probably secret rooms. She wants to keep us here. Trap us forever.”
I lean out, it is a sheer drop and the chances of survival jumping from this height are unlikely.
“I don’t know Orion!” Indy snaps at him. “It’s new to me too!”
*This is not helping. We need to find a way out.” Klaus sighs
*And without all the fucking zombified assholes coming after us. I’m happy to kill, but even I can see we are well and truly outnumbered.”
“But it’s not them.” Indy pleads with me. “They don’t deserve to die for something they don’t know is even happening.”
I feel her pain. She was so desperate to help these people. To snap them out of whatever trance the wicked Witch had put them under but I’m not even sure it’s possible without killing Thalia first. And by the looks of it, Thalia knew that. It was why she was putting more people between us and her.
“What do we do?” Indy asks
“Ugh,” Amelia mutters from Orion’s shoulder.
*Amelia?”
“Don’t call her that,” Klaus tells me. “She goes by Amy.”
Orion lowers her to the ground and props her up against the wall as she continues to groan. Her hand moves to the dried blood on her temple. “Blood. My blood.” She blinks a few times and her grey eyes move between us before she slumps forward.
“Amy,” Klaus mutters as he squats. “Amy, is there another way out?”
“Not here. Somewhere else.”
“Where?” I demand
Her head wobbles side to side. Her grey eyes widen as they focus. “Trapped.”
*She is not helpful.”
“You don’t know that!” Klaus frowns at me.
“Amy,” Indy whispers. “Do you remember me? It’s been a long time. You used to come and visit me, bringing me presents.”
There is a hint of recognition in her grey eyes as she smiles. “Baby girl.”
“It’s not Samara,” Klaus tells Amy. “I’m going to take you to meet her, but we need to get out of White Cliffs.”
*Just let her believe it.” Indy mutters. “If it means she gets to be more responsive. Let her believe it.” She lets Amy cup her face. “Can you show us how to get out of here?”
Amy’s eyes flicker around the rest of us and she nods. “I can help.”
Neah
“You’re not joking either, are you?” I couldn’t believe what Dane had just told me.
“No,” Dane mutters. “I wish I was.”
“Let me make sure I have this right. Klaus has found his mate, and they are now in White Cliffs with Brax. Thalia has some sort of weird hold over everyone there. Brax has found Silas’s true mate, and now you are also telling me that Amelia is somehow alive?”
His crimson eyes don’t leave mine as he nods. I know he is trying to figure out what was happening in my head.
‘And the news just keeps coming.’ Nyx tuts.
“How bad is it?” I ask Dane
“From what I gather, pretty fucking bad. They are currently trapped inside a castle. Klaus is dropping me bits of information when he can.”
“And they are hundreds of miles away with no help,” I whisper so I don’t wake the girls
“I’m not happy about it either.”
“What about Serkan? We haven’t seen or heard anything since that night at the gas station. Any mention of him. Is he back in White Cliffs?”
“No. He could possibly be in hiding while he tries to figure out his next move or while he waits to hear from Thalia. As expected, Serkan and Thalia are working together.”
“Well, that’s hardly a surprise.” I groan
“And he may not actually be your grandfather.”
‘What?’ Nyx echoes my thoughts
“Serkan is my grandfather. It’s in the family tree. Both in the one Klaus made for me and the one I took from Moonshine.”
“It’s not him. Well, that’s what Klaus thinks.”
He watches me as the words sink in. “Another imposter?”
“It would explain why you are unable to link him.” He frowns
“Whether he is family or not, he is a Lycan. There should still be some sort of connection. I should be able to contact him.”
“Not necessarily. Cooper found a way to trick you, to trick all of us. There is a good chance Thalia has helped whoever this guy is and he is just playing a part in her plan.”
I sit on the edge of the bed, cradling Willa. “But Silas could link him.”
“We don’t know that for sure. Thalia has already convinced him that he lived another life. That she was his mate. That they had children together. She may have convinced him that Serkan was talking to him when it was really her.”
“How powerful is she?”
“Pretty fucking powerful by the sounds of it.”
‘I don’t believe that.’ Nyx mutters. ‘We are the last female Alpha. Thalia can shove her powers up her ass.’
‘I could try linking the Lycans there. See if it wakes them up from whatever spell is being held over them. Silas said they heard us before. Maybe they will hear me again. Even if it’s just for a moment.’
I look up at Dane, “You should tell Silas about….” I didn’t even know her name.
“Indy.” Dane continues to watch me
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