Chapter 311 – The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West

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“This is beautiful!” She chirps.

High ceilings with walls that are littered in colourful stained glass windows. I hadn’t seen this from the outside. Almost like it’s some sort of secret part of the castle, or maybe that was the point. Who knows how Serkan and Thalia work?!

The room had clearly not been used for some time. Cobwebs appeared in every corner, and a thick layer of dust coated every surface. It made sense if it was Amy’s room.

“Is this your room?” Klaus asks Amy as Orion starts barricading the main door with random bits of furniture.

Amy pats her chest and nods at Klaus with a smile, “Mine.”

In this light, her skin is an odd shade of grey, and I see how she squints as the sunlight hits her face. Years of being trapped deep within the castle would do that to anyone. “Does Thalia know about the passageway?” I question.

“Witch!” Amy snaps, curling her lip up in anger.

Indy takes Amy’s hands in hers. “We know. Does she know about the secret walk-through?”

Amy cups Indy’s face. “No.” She pulls Indy’s face close to hers, “Baby girl, leave. You have to leave. She will kill you all.”

“It’s okay.” Indy smiles at her and gestures to us. “My friends, they are going to help.”

I move to the windows to try and work out our position in the castle.

Right below.us is the sea es oveline into the rocks that surround the cliffs with incredible force. Dangerous, though it was mesmerising to watch. Madison would love it.

“We are at the back of the castle,” I mumble to Klaus. “The only advantage here is that the Witch can’t send her minions around to et attack us.” I glance at Xavi, who is still purely focused on Indy. He really needed to stop.

“There has to be a way for us to get out,” Klaus frowns, “Or a way to lure Thalia away from the others.”

“You are the Witch Hunter.” I tut.

He rolls his eyes at me. “Xavi has been Witch-hunting a lot longer than I have and look what she did to him.”

“Well, what does he suggest? Because all it seems that he wants to do is kill Indy and slaughter Thalia. That doesn’t help this situation.”

“He won’t kill Indy.” He mutters.

“You can guarantee that, can you?”

“No, but he won’t hurt her if I ask him not to.”

Xavi moves towards us. Sitting and wrapping his tail around his feet. His amber eyes fixed on me.

“What’s the asshole saying?” I knew he had to be saying something. He liked me as much as I liked him.

“He has agreed that he won’t attack her unless she does something that causes a problem for the rest of us.”

“Does it not count that she has already tried to help us?” I challenge.

Klaus sighs and rolls his eyes. “Witches only do things for themselves.” He hated being the third person in the conversation and passing messages to me.

I glance over to Indy and Amy. Indy is pulling out clothes for Amy as Amy smiles and claps her hands like a toddler. Being locked up had really fucked her over.

Indy glares at us while holding up a finger and swivelling it around. We face the opposite way, giving Amy some privacy to dress.

“Does that look like she is doing things for herself?” I snap at Xavi, “She could have let me drown or let the river take me over the cliff edge, but she didn’t. She tried to stop you from going up the tower to look for those people. Every chance she has had, she has helped. She has answered questions. She provided us with a hideout, with food and water.” I pause and look at my hand. I had never defended anyone as much as I was defending Indy right now. Blood ties were fucking strong. “Can you not give her a break?”

“That is why he hasn’t done anything.” Klaus smiles. “I’ve told him he needs to understand that you see more than most.”

“I would like it to stay that way.” I turn back to Xavi, “You may kill Witches for a living, and we know how rare they are, but I have put more bullets in creatures than you’ve had hot dinners; I’m watching you.” Klaus sighs and shakes his head. “He says he is watching you.”

“Good. At least we know where each other stands.”

“When you are done arguing about me,” Indy tuts, ” You can turn around because Amy has told me there is another way out.”

“Where?”

She takes a deep breath, “We have to jump.”

Brax

I cock a brow at her, “Have you seen the rocks below?”

“Yes.” She pivots around to Orion, who is standing at another window. “It’s what she said, okay. The tide isn’t always this low and…”

“If we don’t hit it perfectly, we die anyway.” I tut.

“I know what she said sounds insane.” She stares at me with wide eyes. “Do we really have a lot of choice? The rest of the castle is surrounded by the people of White Cliffs. I don’t know what Thalia is capable of getting them to do, but I also don’t want to find out. We all know there is no way we are walking out the front door and surviving.”

“If we let her live…”

“She has a point,” Klaus interrupts. “If we leave any part of the castle that takes us out onto land, we are outnumbered. You said it yourself, Brax.” He moves over to the window and carefully opens it. The crashing waves echo around the room. I see what’s left of Amy’s soul light up at the sound. It was familiar to her, something she had heard every day and every night as she slept in this room.

“If we survive. We could go back to Black Shadow.” Klaus continues, “We would have the numbers. Neah is there. We have the Lycans and Wolves. We could come up with a better plan than hiding in a castle, waiting for death.”

“If we are doing that, would Orion and I be welcome?” Indy asks quietly. “I do understand that we are not from there. I don’t know what it takes to become part of it. I just….” She trails off, looking over at Orion. “We want a home. And it’s where Silas is.”

It wasn’t a question I could answer. It wasn’t my decision, and I couldn’t guarantee that Dane or Neah would let her stay just because I said she was okay. Klaus is also reluctant to respond after the whole Eris situation.

Eris. I hadn’t thought about her for a while. She said she was from White Cliffs, though she didn’t know Silas. How is that possible, given Silas’s role within the pack?

“What’s that face?” Indy asks. “Do you think we won’t be allowed?”

“We can figure that out later,” Klaus tells her.

“Different train of thought,” I mutter when she continues to stare at me.

“Just say it! Neah won’t want us there, will she?”

I lock my eyes on her golden ones. She had similar eyes to Eris, but that was all they had in common. Surely they couldn’t be another set of secret siblings? “Eris.” Indy frowns. “It’s Indy!” she snaps, tapping her chest. “Or are you just trying to wind me up?”

“No,” I scowl.” There was another young woman named Eris who was from White Cliffs.” The only thing she told the truth about and that was only confirmed by Damien’s rejection.

“I don’t know an Eris.” Indy turns to look at Orion, who shakes his head. “Are you sure?”

I nod

“But no one has ever gotten out unless they were allowed. No one. You’ve seen it. Orion and I have tried and tried. You must be wrong.”

“Jump, jump, jump,” Amy mutters to herself.

“She didn’t know Silas, but she was definitely from White Cliffs,” I confirm.

“Everyone here knows Silas.” Indy lets out a heavy sigh. “If only he remembered everyone.” “Cooper had her as a prisoner. He told her stories about an Alpha Silas.” Klaus mutters.

Indy snorts. “Silas is as Alpha as my pinky finger. Don’t get me wronge sometimes you can sense power around him, but that wasn’t ever what he wanted. You must be wrong about this Eris person.”

“She jumped. She jumped. Big waves.” Amy sings to herself as she fiddles with trinkets on a shelf.

“Amy,” Klaus catches her attention. “Did you know an Eris?”

She smiles and nods. “Trapped and escaped.” She points to the windows. “I said jump.”

If Eris were locked up like Amy, it would have explained her odd behaviour. She should have told us then she might be alive today. Being a prisoner of Thalias and Serkans would also explain why she didn’t know Silas. Maybe that’s why she was with Cooper. He got lucky when she appeared nearby, but being his prisoner wasn’t as bad as being the Witches.

Klaus shakes his head at me as a warning not to push further.

I look out at the viscious sea, “She jumped?”

Amy’s grey eyes are bright as she nods. “I told her, jump.”

“It looks like we are jumping. If Eris could do it, so can we.”

We take turns watching the sea, waiting for the tides to change, timing them. The sea here didn’t act like any other sea that I had seen. Thalia probably had some sort of spell on it.

As the water level drops, revealing the bare, jagged rocks, it becomes obvious that there is only one specific place to land, and that’s if we are lucky enough not to be dragged out to sea, or pushed into the rocks by the waves. The other problem was that there were six of us, and we wouldn’t be able to jump all at once, making it even riskier.

“Can everyone swim?” Indy asks. Everyone nods, but we all look at Amy. No one knew anything about her, and she didn’t seem to be able to give a clear answer, instead she smiles and mutters, “big jump.”

Indy grins at Amy, reassuring her by repeating the phrase as I turn to the barricaded door. The smell of burning wood and smoke seeps through the tiny gap under the door. Orion presses his hand to the door and immediately pulls it away. “Fire,” Indy mutters what I already knew.

Thalia knew we would come here. Did she plan this? Did she want Amy to bring us here? Or was this what she expected? So she could block us in with no way out.

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