Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Probably with Blair in the gardens,” I tell him.
“Maddie seems to keep Blair from getting into trouble.”
He nods and turns back to Indy and Silas.
“Will you be staying?” I ask Klaus.
He looks at Xavi, “For now. This curse needs to be broken.”
“She needs to fucking die,” Dane growls.
Klaus rolls his eyes. “Xavi says, in the most glorious way possible.”
“That can be arranged.” Dane smiles and winks at me.
“Indy, you have to let him go.” Brax snaps.
“If I let him go, I might not get to hug him again.” Indy cries.
“What will you do if he recognises you? You are blood-tied to me, so you can’t do anything until we get that taken care of.”
“What?!”
I spin around to see Maddie and Blair. The pain is written all over Maddie’s face. Her eyes widen as her bottom lip quivers, and a tear rolls down her cheek.
“You blood-tied yourself to someone else?” she croaks as Blair drapes an arm over Maddie’s shoulders.
“Madison, can we go somewhere and talk about this?”
“You won’t even mark me, and yet you willingly blood-tied yourself to someone. Why would you do that to me, Brax? I thought… I thought we were good now. Is it because she is a Wolf? Do you think she is better than me?” “It’s not like I’ve slept with her.” Brax snaps. “You weren’t there, Madison. It was a life-or-death situation.”
She opens her mouth to speak but stops and shakes her head as she slowly backs away.
“Madison!”
Blair leaves with her, and Brax hurries after them.
“Yes, whenever Brax is involved, there is always drama,” Klaus mutters to Xavi.
“At least he isn’t killing anyone,” Dane mutters with a smirk as I watch Orion drag Indy away from Silas.
“Yes, twins,” Klaus confirms, nodding at Xavi.
I didn’t like only listening to one side of a conversation, but it must be hard for Xavi to only be able to communicate with Klaus.
“Lycans,” I add, assuming Xavi was asking about the boys. I glance at my boys, who are casually trying to reach Dane’s pockets, likely looking for snacks.
Evrin had grown a lot in the past week and was now a good few inches taller than his brother. He was definitely developing at a much quicker rate, and he even looked older He didn’t have the little round baby face any more. Yet there are still no signs of Logan shifting.
It shouldn’t worry me, but it does, especially when I watched Evrin shift almost nightly. Why could one twin shift now while the other can’t? Would Logan have to wait until he was thirteen? “Klaus, why don’t you take the guests to your place?” Dane suggests.
Dane waits until they have moved away and wraps his arms around me. “You need to stop worrying. You were the one who told me that it is normal for Lycans to shift at thirteen. Look at them both. Evrin is a miniature version of you..
velive shifted early. He is just following in his mother’s footsteps.”
“I know, but…”
“If Logan gets to thirteen and it doesn’t happen, then we will find out why.” He presses his lips to my cheek. Confident and unphased. couldn’t put my finger on it, but something just felt off when it came to the boys.
Mallory called it ‘mother’s intuition.’
Brax
“Madison, stop!”
Blair shoots a glare in my direction. Placing her hands on Madison’s shoulders, she stops her from looking back and pushes Madison forward. “Madison!”
“Fuck off, you traitor.” Blair snaps as I jog to catch up with them.
“You are a fine one to talk, and this,” I wiggle a finger between me and Madison, “doesn’t concern you,”
“She is my friend. How could you be so cruel?”
“You’re asking me why I’m cruel? You must be fucking joking, Lone Wolf?” I spit out the stupid name she once used.
Her eyes lock on to mine. “Don’t call me that.”
“Isn’t that what they always called you?” I sneer.
“Let’s go,” Blair mutters to Madison.
Madison tries her best to avoid meeting my eyes until I block her path. Her chestnut orbs briefly focus on me and then shift to something behind me. Her face was already blotchy as she tried to hold it together. I was expecting this. No one wants to know their mate has tied themselves to another.
“Blair, piss off and leave us to talk.”
“No chance. Right now, she needs a friend,” Blair snaps.
I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be spouting off to me if I had a gun pressed up against her temple. It appears she had become a little too comfortable since I had been gone.
Bare hands could do just as good a job as a gun.
“Do I need to remind you that you might be playing happy families here, but it doesn’t change what you did to my family.”
“Neah….”
“Neah isn’t here.” I stare her down. “And don’t even try to use the sibling card. I already know which side she will be on.” Her face hardens. “You wouldn’t dare.”
“Are you sure you want to pull at that thread?” I muse.
“Stop. Please stop,” Madison whispers. “Blair, it’s fine, you can go. I will catch up with you later.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, she is.” I snap.
Madison nods at her. “I will be okay.”
“I will be watching. The front door to Ryken’s is right over there.”
Madison takes a deep breath as Blair stomps away, swinging her arms. It was odd to see her care for someone other than herself.
“You don’t have to be so mean to her. She is trying.”
“Trying with everyone else.”I shake my head, “You have to realise I won’t ever be able to forgive her for what she did to my family or the situation she put my kid in. I tolerate her purely because it is what I have been asked to do. But if she crosses that line, there will be no stopping me.” She folds her arms across her chest and stares at me for a moment before dropping her gaze. Her red waves fall around her face as she squats to tie up her shoelace. “Why did you bind yourself to that woman?”
“We were in a life and death situation.”
She stands up and bobs her head, “Yeah, you already said that. It doesn’t explain why. Does she not heal? Were you trying to keep her alive?”
“We were trapped, with walls closing in on us. We were being watched, and we couldn’t discuss anything. The only way was to link one another, which we couldn’t do without the tie. We would have been crushed if I hadn’t calmed her, and it helped her tap into her abilities.”
She nods and looks directly at me, her eyes narrow, “Do you like her?”
“She’s been very helpful, and her soul is…”
“That’s not what I asked, Brax. Do you, Abraxas Adler, like her?”
“She is mated to Silas. You are mated to me.”
“Yet you won’t mark me. I know you are hesitant because I’m a Lycan, and you think you shouldn’t be with me.”
“I haven’t thought that in a long time.”
She rolls her eyes at me. “I don’t think that’s true. You have never considered a blood tie with me, but you did with her, and by the sounds of it, you didn’t even hesitate. I don’t understand why. Did I do something wrong? Are you that angry about my Lycan side? I can’t even shift.” Her eyes glisten with tears.
“It’s not… it was the only thing I could think of. You have not done anything wrong, I promise.”
She shakes her head. “I know you, Brax. You can talk your way out of most things. You have this way with words that either annoy people or somehow make perfect sense. But you haven’t answered the one question I need answering.
Slike you can’t, or maybe you don’t want to answer.”
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