Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Let’s get some ice cream.” Dane winks at her, and Dottie and Evrin chase him to the kitchen as I glance at the office door. I hoped they were working things out.
In the kitchen, Dottie tells Dane what she told me as she waits patiently for her bowl of ice cream.
“Do you know where he is now?” Dane asks when he thinks she has finished.
She closes her eyes. Her long lashes fan out across the tops of her cheeks. “It’s dark. He needs to turn on a light. I think… I think Daddy is hiding.” She shakes her head and presses her hands to her temples. “It hurts.” “You can see his soul?” Dane asks in confusion. “From here?”
She shrugs and shakes her head. “A feeling.”
Danes eyes move to me. I didn’t have an answer. It was the first time I had heard of it, but then again, she did have a bad feeling about Raven at the end.
“Is he still with Klaus?” I ask Dane. “You said they were together. I will link him.”
He holds a hand up to me as a strange glaze appears in his crimson eyes. A range of expressions from concern to annoyance to anger flicker across his face.
“He’s mad,” Dottie whispers to me. She shoves a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth as she quietly watches Dane.
“They are alive.” Dane finally announces. “They got out before the fire could take hold. Brax, Klaus and his mate, Xavi.” His eyes settle on mine. “Silas’s mate, Indy and her friend.”
“Really?” Dottie asks. “They found her Silas’s friend?”
Dane nods. “And they escaped into the sea.”
“Deepwater,” Dottie mutters.
Dane smiles, “They are hiding in a cove and waiting for the sea to die down so they can return here. We need to be ready for what follows them.”
“What about?” I didn’t want to say her name in front of Dottie. As requested by Neah, I hadn’t told Samara about her mother. I needed to know more before she knew the truth, and I didn’t want Dottie telling her. “I don’t know. Klaus said there was an incident. He wouldn’t tell me more than that.”
“Daddy is going to be okay?” Dottie asks.
“I won’t make that promise to you, Dorothy, Dane tells her with a small smile. All I know is that he is okay at this moment. And he will be home as soon as he can.”
She nods and shoves more of the melted ice cream in her mouth. “I’m sorry everyone had to leave school.”
“It’s okay.” I kiss the top of her head, and she smiles at me.
“Can I play with the boys?” She asks hopefully.
“Sure,” Dane tells her and helps the boys down out of their chairs. They eagerly follow Dottie from the room, giggling as they chase her.
“What are you not telling me?” I ask when it is just the two of us.
“Indy is a half-breed. Half Wolf, half Witch that Silas mentioned. But she and Brax have blood-tied themselves to one another.”
“Blood tie? What about Maddie? You said Indy is Silas’s true mate.”
He frowns. “I don’t know. Maddie doesn’t deserve this, but there must be a reason they did it.”
“That doesn’t make any sense, why would he blood-tie himself to a Witch? After all the shit with Cooper and now Thalia.”
“Your guess is as good as mine as to why. We both know Brax likes to work on his own terms.”
I glance at the door where Dottie had left with the boys. “What do you think she meant by Brax turning on a light? Is this woman a threat?”
“She is not the same person as Thalia, and it sounds like she has been helping them.” He shakes his. head. “Dottie said something similar to Silas. She might be talking about something different, but like I said, we need to prepare ourselves. This might be the thing that brings Serkan out of hiding.”
Brax
We watch Indy as she stands at the edge of the cove. Water laps around her ankles as she inhales.
“I can’t do this. I wasn’t made to do this.”
“Try and concentrate,” Klaus mutters while frowning at Xavi.
“I know you mean well, but telling someone to concentrate really does not help them concentrate.” She curls her hands up into fists and stares out at the water. “Are you even sure it was me?”
“It only slowed when you were standing in the window. It didn’t do that for anyone else.”
“And it rose to catch you,” Klaus adds.
“It did?” She sounded sceptical.
“Indy, you can do this. Just like when the walls were going to crush us.”
“No pressure.” She blows out her cheeks. “You want the sea to retreat, right?”
“Just enough so we can get around the side of the cliff.”
She holds out a hand and beckons for me to come forward. ‘Maybe the bond will help.’ She links me.
Stepping into the water, I grab her outstretched hand. Taking a deep breath, she closes her eyes. Nothing happens at first. As the minutes passed, I wondered if I had been wrong; maybe she hadn’t stopped the crashing waves, but that would mean someone else had. I was about to drop her hand when the sea began to retreat from around my ankles, pulling back on itself as though it was being sucked out.
Looking at Indy, I see that her golden eyes are wide with a slight glaze present. Her brow creased up in concentration. Her soul is incredibly bright to look at, as though someone had just switched on their Christmas lights.
Souls were becoming more and more unpredictable.
The water continues to pull back until there is a gap of a couple of metres around the edge of the cliff.
“We need to move,” Klaus mutters as he steps onto the wet sand.
Xavi glances at Indy as he trots past. Orion stares at her in frustration but follows the others.
‘Keep doing what you are doing.’ I mutter to Indy, ‘I will guide you out of here.’
Tugging her forward, her footsteps are heavy, and she sways a little as though she is drunk.
We hurry along the sand, keeping as close to the cliff as possible. Looking back, I already see the water is starting to break free, smashing up against the cliff as though it was angrier than before. “Indy, we have to move.”
She doesn’t respond and appears to be completely zoned out.
The water was coming in faster and faster. If we didn’t move, we were going to be stranded. Pulling her on my shoulder, she hangs there like a rag doll as I quicken my pace and finally, I see our way out. Climbing up the sand bank, I put Indy on her feet, steadying her just as the waves completely break free, crashing around the edge of the cliffs and sending a spray over us.
“I did it?” Indy asks as she rubs her eyes. “We are free?”
“Not yet. We still need to make it to Black Shadow.”
She nods and looks around. “Where are the others?”
“Good question.”
We were alone, standing at the bottom of the cliff that leads up to the Witch. Thalia must be pissed, or she was confident we didn’t survive. I can’t wait to see her face when she sees we are fine. Indy’s hand tightens around my wrist as a van approaches.
“It’s okay, Klaus is driving.”
Her grip on me loosens as she sighs. “Good, because I’m not going back to that Witch ever again.”
“You may not, but she is coming for us.”
“Are you certain?”
“We just royally fucked her off. The moment she realises that we are alive, she is going to come looking for us.”
She glances up at the cliff top. “I wish we could have helped Amy.”
I cock a brow at her, “She pushed you, and you still want to help her?”
“She was confused and angry. We don’t know when she last got to see someone that wasn’t Thalia. You saw what Thalia did to all those people. You’ve seen what she has done to Silas. All the crap has probably made Amy be like this.” “How can you be so forgiving?”
“If I believed everyone was as bad as you make them out to be, it wouldn’t be worth living. I have to have some hope.” She gives me a smile as the van stops a few metres from us. “Otherwise, the world is just dark.”
Orion slides back the door and holds a hand out for Indy. He hadn’t looked at her the same since he had learned what she was capable of. She thanks him and takes a seat, “Coming?”
I climb in after her, and she shuffles over, making room for me.
“Let’s go.” Klaus snaps, turning the van around and speeding us away from the madhouse.
Indy sleeps a lot on the way to Black Shadow while Orion, Klaus and I take turns driving. Xavi watches Indy with interest. It wasn’t quite the same look as before. He was more relaxed, and now, it appeared he was curious. “He’s confused,” Klaus tells me when Xavi finally switches off.
“Because of the Witch thing?”
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