Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
He is heading towards the dungeons.
Running to him, I ask what had happened.
“Mallory escaped, there wasn’t enough tfor her to explain what happened. I had to get him away.” He gestures to Jenson. “The others stayed behind to see if she turned up.” “What did you do to him?” “Nothing, he has been like this since we found Mallory dragging him into the forest. She crashed a car.” I follow him into the dungeon, where he wastes no tin tossing Jenson into a cell. Jenson’s body rolls across the stone floor. Hitting the back wall with a thud. It remindedof the tthe sthing was done to Devon.
Dane turns to look at me, his crimson eyes lock on mine as he makes his way toward me. “You shouldn’t have let her go alone.” “She already had. Yesterday. I didn’t know until this morning.” “As soon as you found out, you should have told me, Neah. Maybe we could have planned for it. Handled it better than Mallory taking everything into her own hands.” He’s annoyed and I find myself nodding, like a scolded child. There were still certain things that tookright back to my awful childhood.
“Is Blair alive?” I ask quietly as I watch Jenson.
“Yes from what I have heard. She turned up in Lycan form.” His eyes glaze over, “And they are back.” Dane slams the cell door shut, locking it with a frown etched into his face.
Damien and Mallory are already in the house by the twe get back.
“That was a fucking stupid idea, Mallory!” Damien is snapping at her. “Of all the crap you have pulled over the years, you just walked straight into the lion’s den, without back up!” “I was just getting answers!” Mallory growls back. “And I’m alive. Are you not grateful for that?!” “Thanks to Neah.” Damien is glaring at Mallory when we enter the office.
“Really? It was alright for you to go hunting your brother for a whole month with no word if you were okay? You couldn’t even get off your high horse to contact anyone. Double fucking standards!” “This has nothing to do with me!” Damien snaps. “This is you trying to prove something. If you hadn’t been able to link Neah, you would be dead.” “No I wouldn’t” “And you know that for certain?” Mallory rolls her eyes at him. “Yes I do! Stop treatinglike a child, Damien. I’ve been doing this shit a lot longer than you have. Is it because I’m a woman? Is that it? You feel the need to save the fucking day.” “You know that is not what I mean.” He shakes his head at her “That’s enough!” Dane snaps over the both of them. “Can we just be grateful that everyone is alive. Mallory, what happened?” Mallory tells us everything except how she escaped.
“Did he let you go?” Damien quizzes.
She shakes her head and puffs out her cheeks. “I had help.” “Who?” “My mate.” We all look at each other, because as far as we were aware, she had no mate. She had no mark on her neck, so she hadn’t been claimed either.
“Your mate?” Damien presses.
She quietly nods at us, but keeps her eyes lowered. “He’s a Wolf.” : mutters “But he isntread m anyone. Because…well, because everyone in the pack hates me.” “He’s from my pack?” Dane asks, glaring at Damien She bobs her head again. “When I linked Neah, it turned out I linked him too, but he was closer by. He was the one who knocked out Jenson.” “Who?” Damien snaps.
“I won’t give you a name, Damien. I respect his decision.” “You would only be able to link him if he claimed you.” I mutter.
“I know.” She lifts her top, showing us a mark on her stomach. A really random place to have@mark. Had he marked her there to keep his identity e a secret? Because none of us would have known if it wasn’t for her telling us. “How long?” Damien growls.
“A couple of weeks.” “You never said anything.” Damien was so irritated that Mallory had kept something from him. “And it still doesn’t excuse the shit you pulled tonight.”
“Okay, but can you just hearout? When she was attempting to torture me, I kept pushing and Bushing, She wouldn’t shift so I assumed that she couldn’t. I pushed and pushed, expecting it to happen. When I questioned Jenson for information, he spilled that Blair is afraid to shift.”
“Afraid?” Dane asks. His eyes flicker to me.
“Because she can’t control herself when she does.” Her eyes shift to Damien. “We both know everyone struggles with the darkness in different ways.” She sighs, “But she did anyway, I mean, we saw it. She ate that deer that I crashed into. Devouring it like it was a drug.” “You still let her go.” Dane shakes his head in annoyance.
“Because she will cfor Jenson.” Damien tells him. “She will chere, looking for him because he is her mate. We can trap her, keep her hostage and find out what her plan is.” “Or we could just kill her.” Dane mutters. “What good is a plan if she is already dead?” Damien nods in agreement, but I still needed more answers. Answers that I would never get if they kill her.
“I need her alive.” I blurt out and feel everyone’s gaze on me.
“Are you sure?” Dane asks I bob my head. “She can’t be doing all this just because we share the sfather. Because that isn’t my fault. I think there is more to her story.” “We can see how much Jenson knows.” Mallory suggests. “Where did you put him?” “Dungeon.” Dane answers abruptly and walks out of the office.
I follow him to the kitchen, where he starts to fill a bucket with cold water. Pure anger is written across his face. He moves to the ice machine and chucks the ice in the cold water.
“Dane….” “We agreed no more secrets, Neah. I seem to be the only one that is doing that.” I feel my heart drop. “I know…This wasn’t supposed to happen.” I felt enough guilt already without him reminding me.
“I won’t lose you Neah. The boys can’t lose you either.” “I know.” I really hadn’t thought it through. “I just…. I finally feel that I have scontrol over my choices. This isn’t how I thought tonight would go.” He sighs and pullsinto his arms, locking them tight around me. “Cwith me, let’s try getting sanswers from the prick in my dungeons.
He grabs the bucket of water and hauls it out of the sink with ease.
“Why do you need that?” “Something to help him wake up.” Back in the dungeons, Jenson is still out cold. Dane unlocks the cell and steps in with the huge bucket of ice cold water and flings it all over him.
“FUUUUCCCCKKKK!!! Jenson throws himself up right as Dane steps out of the cell and locks the door.
“Where the fuck am I?” Jenson demands. His eyes try to focus on the room. “Where is that bitch? Where’s Blair?” “I don’t think you are in any position to be demanding answers.” Dane tells him. “What are you up to Jenson?!” Jenson bares his teeth at Dane as if that was going to somehow scare him.
“You have tried to beatmultiple times, believing that you should be Alpha. You have tried taking Eric out for the Beta position. You continue to lose. so what do you want?” “I did take out Eric, the moment I fucked his girl!” Dane smirks and shakes his head. “Did you know the kids were yours?” Jensons eyes narrow. “Of course I did.” “Salem killed them.” He shrugs his shoulders at Dane, unbothered and unphased.
“Seriously, they were yours and you don’t even care?” It bothered me.When I look at my boys, my heart feels like it’s swelling with the love I have for them. How can someone just not care?
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