Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
She leadsinto an empty room and asksto lay on the bed and to show her my wound.
Pulling up the sweatshirt, just enough for her to see the wound. Her eyes widen, a flicker of rage passing over them as she takes in the infected wound and the bruising that surrounds it.
Her fingers carefully press around the wound. “How long ago?” “A few days.” I mutter, though I wasn’t sure. Every beating blurred into another one. Any day that I wasn’t hit was a good day.
Raven shakes her head. “This is longer than a few days ago, the infection has had at least a week to develop. “Neah, you need to tell us the truth.” Alpha Dane orders ‘I don’t know.
“NEAH!” His deep voice rumbles throughand I close my eyes, fearing his anger. Anger brought punishment, punishment brought pain “I swear, I don’t know. The beatings, they happen so often that they just kind of…. I’m never not bruised.”
There’s silence and I was too afraid to open my eyes. Alpha Trey had said it over and over, that if anyone.
m ielelarel out he would make my lifea misery-more than it already was: “I used.te wonder who would ever find outthat didn’t already knowsNow here was, sitting in another pack’s hospital, revealing the truth. “Heal her!” Alpha Dane shouts after what seems like forever. He storms from the room, pulling a phone out of his pocket.
“You will have to forgive my brother. His temper is short, especially when it comes to things like this.” Raven mutters as she gently inspects my wound “Your brother?” I whisper, opening my eyes “Ah, I see he informed you. I’m guessing he didn’t tell you that Jenson is our brother too?” I shake my head, I’m guessing Jenson was one of the men that cto my brother’s house.
She chuckles. “Jenson is considered to be our brother’s Gamma.” ‘Gamma?’ I had never heard of the term
“Yep and Alpha Dane has a love/hate forworking here. He wantsterepresent our family, but he knows ppt of this is what I’m good aty she grabs a chan of cream from the cypboard. “Now this needsto be applied three times a day. It should clear up the infection, if it hasn’t changed i in a couple of days, I will take another look. My brother is waiting for you out front.” “Thanks.” I mumble, taking the pot of cream from her. I looked at the label, but couldn’t read it. I had never learned to read.
She bobs her head atas I hurry out to find Alpha Dane on his phone. snapping at someone. He hangs up as soon as he seesand asks what Raven said.
“Cream, three times a day.” I show him the pot and he takes it from me. “Good, come.” He strides off and I have to run to keep up with him. I follow him through the house and into the office “Show me.” He orders. pulling the lid off the pot.
It wasn’t going to be negotiable, not when he had used the stone moments before he ripped my dress open earlier.
Slowly lifting may sweatshirt, he crouches down in front ofand >> gently smothers the wound in the cold cream “Ndon’t want you to lies to me-Neah. Not ever. If you cati’t remember, that is what you need to telkme. Is that clear? I don’twant to Have to guess what you mean.” “Okay.” I couldn’t say anything else, I was too focussed on the warmth of his hands. One presses against my lower back, holdingsteady while the other gently rubs cream into my wound. The only touch I had received from another man was a beating “Stop holding your breath.” He tells me, getting to his feet. “I am not going to hurt you.” It seemed impossible to believe given my history. The act, the words coming from him, it just didn’t feel re X
Dane
She didn’t trust me. Not a single inch of her which only madequestion her history more. I wanted to know everything. I wanted to know her inside and out. I wanted to know who it was that had turned her life upside down all those years ago and why they had chosen to pin it on a child.
While she was being seen by Raven, I put in a call to my Beta, Eric, he was keeping an eye on the Moonshine pack and I wanted to know if there was anything that he had found out of place.
So far, the answer was nothing. which only madewonder how much they were keeping hidden from the world. How deep did their secrets run? Because until Trey reached out to me, I had never heard of the Moonshine Pack. A pack that lived less than fifty miles from us. I wondered if Neah knew that.
I told him to head back, the pack run is tonight and he needed to be here for that.
I culdn’t help but notice how Neah hadn’t smiled once since I had met her. Not once did her strange scent change to show that she was even a little happier. Something that I would need to change. especially if she is to be my mate.
Running my hand across her stomach, she holds her breath and keeps her eyes off of me, finding anything else to look at “Are you afraid of me?” I ask directly as she lets her sweatshirt fall down Of course she is, just look at her. Aero mutters as he paces in my mind.
I see how she bites the inside of her cheek as she thinks of something to say. “Everyone is.” She mutters breathlessly.
I cock an eyebrow at her.
“You have the biggest pack. You’ve gone to war and absorbed other packs. You have killed multiple Alphas. People ask for your help, you don’t ask for theirs. It would be stupid to not fear you.” I smile and I could feel Aero’s joy too, we had worked hard to becthe Alpha that we are.
Neah was smarter than what her brother made her out to be. “That’s not what I meant. I know my position in the world. I’m talking about you. Are you, Neah, afraid of me?” Quickly, her eyes fall to the ground. I wish she wouldn’t do that. I could stare into them all day.
“I am not them.” I announce when her silence continues. I would never stoop as low as them. I would never beat a woman for my own benefit. “Were there others like you?” Normally where there was one. there were multiples, hidden away from sight.
She shakes her head. “Only me.” It made it a hundred times worse knowing that they only hurt her. That everyone else was considered to be above her when she carried Alpha blood. “You are one person who never needs to fear me. I want you to know that.
She pulls the sleeves of the sweatshirt down over her hands. Hiding more of herself from me.
By nightfall, she still hadn’t spoken first. Every conversation cfromand always ended with her just nodding or shaking her head. She was. almost impossible to read, but I loved a challenge.
“You need to sleep.” I mutter, guiding her towards the stairs. She had no Wolf and would not be able to join us for a pack run. Her blue eyes move to the large clock hanging on the wall, still she keeps her mouth closed, keeping her thoughts to herself.
She followsthrough the house back to my bedroom. Allowingto put the cream on her stomach again. Just like before, she holds her breath, only this time, she doesn’t seem as afraid as she was earlier and watchesinstead of closing her eyes.
“Goodnight.” I mutter. As I lean in to kiss her on the cheek, she tenses up as her heart races. I was expecting her to run, but she stays rooted to the spot, her eyes squeezed tightly shut.
She lets out a little gasp as I walk back to the door. “You’re leaving?” she whispers, surprised “It’s a full moon tonight. I lead the pack run. I will be back in a few hours but you will most likely be asleep.” “Pack run?” she mumbles, her brow knitting together “You know, when the pack goes on a big hunt altogether.” Her eyes grow wider the more I talk. “Moonshine don’t do a pack run?” As far as I was aware, everyone did it.
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