Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
She groans and tries to sit up, freezing when she sees me. “I’m sorry.” “What are you sorry for?”
Her blue eyes flash around the room. “I’ve caused problems. I didn’t…. Qw. She holds a hand to her stomach and lies back down. “Raven stitched you up. It’s probably going to be uncomfortable for a little while. She blinks back tears, “Am I in trouble?” “Why didn’t you tell me?” “The pain con so quickly.”
“No Neah, I’m talking about your mate. Why didn’t you tellthat you didn’t you! were already mated?”
She drags her teeth over her bottom lip as she closes her eyes. “He m rejected me. He forcedto accept his rejection. He….” she hesitates as she peers though slits at me. X
“He beat you?” I finish her sentence.
She only moves her head slightly, but she confirms my question.
“Who?” “Beta Kyle.” She whispers.
‘But she’s ours now, right?’ Aero grumbles in a panic.
‘Letfinish!” I snap at him.
“How did you know that prick was your mate?” I study her face.
“I don’t know. I could smell him.” She screws her face up. “He was the first person I scented since I was a kid. I don’t know how or why. But he was so angry. So disgusted.” Neah hugs herself as she looks up at the lights in the ceiling. “He hatedand I paid for it.” ‘She could scent him?’ Aero mutters. ‘How if she was bound?’ ‘I’m getting to that if you will just be quiet for five minutes.’ “How old were you?” “It was my eighteenth.” She keeps her voice quiet and sighs.
“And he was the one who did that to you?” She looks at her stomach and shakes her head. “Luna Cassandra… I think.” She pauses, pressing her pink lips into a thin line. “Was it badly infected?” “You don’t need to worry about it anymore. The problem has been dealt with. It will heal properly this time.” Rising to my feet, I was about to tell her to get srest. But I couldn’t help myself. “Why could you scent him?” “I don’t know. I swear.” She shakes her head. “They boundfor a second tafter that. I haven’t been able to heal since.” I wanted to push for more answers, but I could see she was exhausted even after all the rest she has had.
“Get ssleep. I will be back in the morning.” Leaving the hospital, I find Eric hovering outside, just as I had asked.
“She awake?” Nodding, “She answered sof my questions. But I’m letting her get srest until the morning. Eric, she has been bound not once but twice.” “Twice? Are you sure?” He looks puzzled.
“I heard it from her own mouth.” “She must carry spowerful Alpha blood if she needed binding twice.” “She is possibly more powerful than Trey. What other reason could there be that would make them treat her like this other than fear? Why else would they set her up for the death of her parents?” I don’t sleep. Neah had only slept in the bed for one night and it already felt odd to not have her here. By six in the morning, I was back sitting beside her bed in the hospital. Watching and waiting for her to open her eyes.
She groans first, stretching a little before opening her eyes. I see how she panics before quickly remembering where she is too.
“Hospital?” she whispers, looking for confirmation.
“Yes.” I watch her as she pushes herself up on the bed, ignoring her pain, and I wondered how manym times she had to do that while living EN: in Moonshine. I wondered if she had ever gotten a break. If Trey and the others just let her be for a single night. Neah pulls her top up, studying her own stitches with a frown. “She made the wound bigger.” She mumbles. “Raven had too. At spoint between Cassandra injuring you andbringing you here. Kyle, blood tied himself to you.” “He what?” she asks, confused. She really didn’t know much about our kind at all.
“Blood tie. It can be a mate thing. It doesn’t have to be.” “I… I accepted. H…h… he wantedto accept the rejection. I did.” She stutters.
“I think because you were still bound to a certain degree, that the rejection didn’t work properly. Or at least not how it should.”
‘She’s our mate!’ Aero roars inside of my head. ‘He’s not having her I won’t let him.
him. I will kill the entire Moonshine pack if it means that she gets to stay with us!’ ‘Trust me, there is no way she is going back to them.’ X
Neah
It was a lot to take in. First the Blood of Wolfsbane and pack runs. Now a blood tie and still sort of being mated to Beta Kyle.
Flashing my eyes up to Alpha Dane, I lower them immediately. He was staring straight at me.
“I swear.” I whisper again. “I swear I don’t know what you are talking about.” “And that is the most frustrating thing, Neah. I know you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.” I wanted to ask why he was so angry, instead, I keep the question to myself.
“I don’t ever want to be near Beta Kyle.” I mumble and from the corner of my eye, I see his face relax, there was almost a hint of a smile on the corners of his lips.
“Good, I have no intention of giving you back.” He rises from his seat. “Raven has said you can cback to the house. Are you up for walking or would you prefer I carried you?” “I can walk.” I mutter Slipping out of the bed, I straighten myself up, only to feel a long sharp pain rip through my stomach. “Are you sure?” Alpha Dane asks.
I nod my head, I had been through worse. I had worked through worse. But he seemed almost disappointed that I was putting a barrier between us.
He letstake my time. Not saying anything even when I stop because the pain is so bad. They had said it would take a while for it to heal completely, but how long was a while? Stopping again, I glance back over my shoulder and realise I was barely fifteen metres from the hospital and still had a long way to go to get to the pack house.
Alpha Dane moves in front of me, “Lethelp.” “It’s…. I can do it.” “Neah,” His rough fingers gently tip my chin up to look at him. “I can see that you are in a lot of pain. Just lethelp.” He does that thing, where he changes the tone of his voice to basically tellthat it wasn’t optional. Reluctantly, I nod and he wastes no tin sweepingoff my feet.
He is pleased with himself as he carriesthrough the house and into the bedroom. But he doesn’t putdown on my feet, he putsstraight into bed.
“As I said, this is going to take stto heal. Blood ties are not the easiest thing to dissolve. The pain you are feeling now will likely increase.” “Increase?” Surely it couldn’t get much worse.
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