Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
Jenson is pointing a scalpel at Damien.
“Jenson, he was with me.”
I shout “Don’t stick up for the asshole just because he is your mate!”
“You can confirm it with Eric and Klaus. We were in a meeting, talking to Dane. We have literally just left the house.”
I plead with him “Bullshit. We should have killed you along with your bitch.”
Dane hospital!’ I link my brother, hoping he would cquickly.
I step forward enough to see Jess around tke corner. Her body ~ sprawled out on the floor. There wasn ‘teven a chance of saving her, not awhen her heart had beer-vipped from her chest. – ~ n Dane arrives with Klaus. I watch Dane’s eyes shift between all of us before landing on Jess. “Check the dungeon.”
Damien mutters as he stays squared up to Jenson. “I smell him.” It’s impossible. He can’t escape “lam telling you, Dane. He was here and if you tell your brother to stand down. I will be able to check the girl and tell you if it was him.”
“He’s lying He’s admitted it himself, he used t to be a Rogue. He’s fucking playing: us!”
Jenson jabs the soalpel at Damien. Damien expertly moves out of the way. “
“He will screw with everything and you are letting him get near Neah.”
I knew Jenson would be upset, probably-to the point he couldn’t= think straight. But what the fuck he thought he would achieve with a scalpel is beyond me. Especially when Damien could heal.
“Go!”
Dane snaps at Klaus. He turns to Jenson. “Let him look at her.
“You are on his side?”
Jenson spits “I am on the side of finding answers.”
Dane is somehow calm as Jenson tries to take another swing at Damien “Jenson stand down, that’s an order.”
He tosses the scalpel to the floor and backs up but keeps his eyes locked el op my mate. will fucking kill you!
Damien ignores him as he carefully moves around Jess. He crouches and leans over her. Without touching her, he inhales the the scents He frowns and shakes his head as he leans back on his heels, “I don’t understand.”
“What? What is it?”
Dane demands “I think he shifted.”
Dane “You said “I know Dane. I know exactly what I said.”
Damien snaps back at me. A deep frown etched into his face. “He has never wanted to shift back. I didn’t think it was even possible. Do you know how hard it was for me?”
“What do you mean?”
Raven asks “I told you that it wasn’t easy. That the process took time. I would find I had shifted in my sleep. Waking up in Lycan form in the middle of the corn field. It’s not easy to just shift back. Not once you see yourself as a monster.”
“Just full of secrets aren’t you!”
Jenson mutters as he shoves Damien out the way.
Dropping down to the floor, he pulls Jess’s lifeless body into his arms. I could see from his face that he was broken. The last true loss he had experienced was our parents. Anything in between then and now had never bothered him.
‘We will need to keep an eye on him.’ Aero rumbles.
Agree.’ I mutter back.
Maybe this is what he needs.’ Aero adds ‘What are you talking about?’ He has only ever cared about himself his entire life.”
That’s a bit harsh. How would you feel if Neah…..’ Shit, Neah. I link sof the guards and ask them to station themselves around the house. “Let’s say he has got out.”
Though it wouldn’t have been like he could just walk out. “How did he shift?”
I ask Damien “I don’t know. He hasn’t been in human form for over a year. And like I said, he has never wanted to shift back. Trust me, I tried to help him. Mallory did to you. He has never wanted it. The only thing I can think of is that he has actually been shifting for stime. That he has just kept it quiet.
Dane,’ Klaus’s voice fills my head. ‘He’s gone.’ ‘What?’ He isn’t here and according to Roan. he did indeed shift to human form.’ ‘How the fuck did he get out?’ I snap. The Rogue hactbeen chained to a wall. If he had shifted, he would have been ablete slip the chains, that I could undierstan, But the cell was> still locked. The only way out would be if Someone had physically let him aut Not to mention he wouldn’t just be able to walk out of théfe. I had seen what Neah had done to his leg.
If we are to believe Roan then he is also saying Jess was the one who helped Salem get out.’ I glance over at a silent Jenson. He is stroking Jess’s red hair. Why would she have helped Salem? It made no sense when she loved Neah. She stood against the woman who had changed her to help Neah.
“I’m right, aren’t I?° Damien asks. “I can tell by your face and I know what I smell. I am right. ‘Is he?”
Raven demands. “Has Salem got out? Has he shifted? Is he out there, walking around in the pack like he belongs here?”
“Yes.
“No.”
Damien interrupts me. “He wouldn’t bethat stupid. He would hunch down somewhere. Somewhere he could hide in plain: sight, watching, waiting. And hewill workbetter, making sure hisscent I IS spread around the entire pack.”
~~ Xu “This is your fault!”
Jenson growls from the floor. “You, he chere because of you. You better sleep with one eye open, Lycan.
Damien doesn’t respond. He is quiet, mulling over what has happened and not in the least bit bothered about my brother’s threat.
‘You are hiding something.’ Raven mutters 3 through mindlink. I look over to her tosee her arms folded across her chest as she stares at me”I know you Dane, there is something yotrare not saying.’ Conte t belongs to”- According to Roan. Jess let him out.’
“WHAT?!”
She shouts out instead of keeping the conversation between us: Everyone’s eyes turn ta her and she drops her gaze.
“What’s going on?”
Damien asks, moving toward my sister.
“Sorry.”
Raven mumbles.
“Look, I don’t know if it’s true. All we have to go on is what Roan is saying My Roan is and he isn’t exactly the most truthful person. “He saw him shift?”
Damien frowns “And he saw who let him out. Which I’m taking with a pinch of salt!”
“Letguess. She did.”
He points to Jess. “I can’t scent anyone else on her.
“No!”
Jenson snaps. “She wouldn’t do something like that. She wouldn’t put her own life in danger! She just turned sixteen.”
“Maybe, maybe not. She was probably lured into freeing him.”
Damien shrugs his shoulders “Is this where you tell us that he has ssort of ability to attract people?”
I ask “How do you think they killed people in that town so easily? None of the humans left. Bodies started turning up in all places. Most people would leave if that started happening, but they stayed. The humans practically walked to their death. It was only once the town was wiped out that I started bringing them food.”
Damien shakes his head but his eyes are on my sister. “But she would have had to have been down there already.
“Stop talking about her! JUST STOP!”
Jenson yells out. “She is still here. Raven hobbles over to him using the crutches. “Jenson. I’m really sorry, but she’s gone. We can’t bring her back.”
Jenson growls at Raven and pushes her over. Sweeping up Jess’s bloody body, he holds her to his chest. He charges out of the hospital as Damien helps Raven get back on her feet.
“We should go after him.”
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