Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
A man bellows out my nas he runs up the stairs. “Dane needs you.”
Danes Beta Eric splutters when he En.
sees me. “Why?”
He glances to the bedroom door and drops his voice to a whisper. “It’s here. It’s in the hospital with Raven
My blood runs cold as he says her name. He was going after her again. “Dane is on his way there now with Klaus. But you know it better than us.
“Alpha Neah?”
I mutter. Torn between staying to protect her or going to protect my mate. It could be a distraction. To lead us away from what my brother is really after.
“I will handle Neah, go.”
Eric offers “If it shows up here, link Dane. I will be with him.”
I snap, running down the stairs and out of the house. The hospital wasn’t far, but it was still far enough that he could have already done something to her. Dane and Klaus are searching when I arrive.
“She’s gone.”
Dane mutters with a growl. “Whatever it has done to her, she is out cold. I can’t link her.”
“We have searched the entire hospital. There is nothing.”
Klaus tells me, “Not a hair, no blood, even Raven’s scent fades to nothing. ‘Lcan smell him.”
I mutter.
Moving around the small desk in the middle of the hospital. I’m hit with strawberries combined with the essence of fear. She had been here, hiding under the desk.
“How long?”
I mutter.
“For what?”
Dane growls.
“Between her linking you and you arriving here. How long?”
“A couple of minutes. I cimmediately, why?”
Had she known it was in here, is that why she was hiding? I move around the desk. He had been standing on the other side, probably taunting her. “He wouldn’t have taken her out the front door. That would be too risky.”
I tell them “The back door has been kept locked since we had the problem with the other Lycans.”
Klaus mutters. “It almost backs on to the forest. There is no other way in.”
“There is always a way.”
“I will link my men. We can hunt the forest.”
Dane mutters jo.”
I snap “She’s my sister.”
“If you want her alive, you won’t send in any more Men. He’s doing this to lureoutNif you send in more, he will just kilMher and everyone elsext told yous they ke to play with their food. But if there is more than.6ne option, they will just kill everything in gight. And it’s like you said; Dane. You can’t scent him.”
Moving through the hospital. I’m quick to locate the back door. It is just as Klaus had said. With no signs of foul play.
A curtain around a closed window begins tomove. It’s then I notice.the claw marks around the edges ahd a small- gap where the window hadn’t quitebeen refitted properly, {etting theawind through. “- He had removed and replaced the whole thing. Slinking inside without being caught and disappearing in exactly the sway. “He dragged her through the window.”
I tell them “She would have fought against him.” Dane glares at me. “She fights well.
“It’s like you said, she’s out cold. You can’t fight someone if you are unconscious.”
I ram my shoulder against the back door. It only took two attempts before the door split from its hinges Pulling off my shirt. I feel my body crack as I prepare to shift. It had been a while.
“We are coming too.”
Dane mutters, ripping off his shirt. “This is my pack and it 61 my sister that he has. You don’ ‘Nget to tellwhat to do!”
His crithson eyes are narrowed-at me.
As I remove my belt and my boots. I just stare at him, because he won’t like what’s coming. Xthought I would be able to keep it a secret for longer than this. “You can’t track them. I can!”
I transform fully into my Lycan, stretching my muscles out.
Dropping on to all fours, I run my snout along the ground. Sucking in his scent. I could stil smell Raven, just a tiny bit, but enough to make it easy forto find her.
“We can help! Just lead the way,”
m Dane mutters “You can’t do this! alone. That is not how we work! I growl at him. “I can because I was like him.” X
Damien They ignoreand shift anyway. Though Dane continues to glare at me. There would be questions, but those can be dealt with later. They keep up withfor all of a few minutes. They were fast but I was quicker, gliding through the trees with ease.
Tearing through the forest. I follow his scent. Hopeful, when hints of strawberries pass through. It meant he hadn’t dumped her and hidden her anywhere like he usually would. This was a gto him. a ghe was going to lose.
The canopy of the trees thickens and makes the forest dark even though the sun was high in the sky. He could hide anywhere here and the Wolves would be none the wiser. Hidden in the shadows, waiting and watching, choosing his perfect mament like he was hunting his prey.
“I know you are here.”
I call out. “I smell you and her.
He doesn’t respond. I wasn’t expecting him to. Because this was exactly the way he worked. Silent and watching. Choosing his moment as though his life depended on it. And today, it might just. Could I finally kill my brother? “Why her?”
I call out into the dark forest. “Because she is my mate? Is this what this is, payback for killing the others. Pretty pathetic!”
More silence, which means he is watching me. Trying to decide if he should reveal his exact location. Part of the fun was your victim never knowing where you are.
“Have you hurt her?”
I demand and I’m met with the sounds of the forest. Creatures carrying out their work, oblivious to the fight that is about to happen. I couldn’t smell any blood but that does not mean he hadn’t done something else to her.
“She doesn’t deserve this.”
I speak to the trees. “She has done nothing wrong.”
My eyes move between the shadows, looking for something that is out of place. But just like the hospital, everything looked untouched. He blended in well, a little too well.
A whimper drags my attention behind me. By the tI lunge forward, they were gone. Disappearing further into the forest. He would punish her for making his presence known. “Stop this shit, little brother!”
I growl “We haven’t been brothers for a long time! I could just snap her pretty little neck.”
His voice rattles from somewhere in front of me. “But that would be no fun.
I charge forward again and a laugh echoes above me.
Looking up. I see him at least twenty feet up in a tree. Raven dangles from his claws like a doll. Her eyes are closed and thankfully, she doesn’t look injured, just sleeping.
“What did you do to her?”
“Just a little nitrous oxide.”
A garbled laugh comes from him. “Remember Damien, you used that ononce when you thought I was becoming a risk. I never forgot. It’s amazing what people leave laying around. “You mean you killed for it!”
‘It’s not like you haven’t done bad things, is it?’He stares atbefore moving his.gaze to a heavily sedated Raven. “Nave you told her? Have you explained how cruel you are? How theisAlpha i is nothing compared to your”
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