Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
“I think she can help you.”
I open my mouth to respond, but all I could de is shake my head and frown at him.
“Neah, if you are carrying Lycans, we need somegite who knows more about thera? It’s still new to you, it’s> new to altof us here. She is not the persamshe once was. But she has beerttiving as one for a lot langer thar you have.”
Images of herappear in my mind. Her hands gripped around my face, her thumbs centimetres from my eyes e as She slams my head back over and over. Pain shoots up. fhe backof my head like it was oO ening right now.
“The others that have hurt you, they continued to hurt you. She left m because she couldn’t handle what she had done and she has lived with that since.”
“She toldthe sthing.” I mumble “You don’t believe her or are you choosing not to believe her?”
Raven Crap, crap, crap, crap.
My feet carryback and forth, along the corridor of the hospital. As usual it is quiet and givesstto think. ‘Will you just chill.’ My Wolf, Midnight, rolls her eyes at me.
I am mated to a Lycan! How can I be chill about that?’ Neah is a Lycan.’ She’s different. I like her. This guy, he’s friends with Mallory. That’s not a good sign. And look at all the others, they are all assholes! We are right in the middle of skind of Moon Goddess fuckery!”
Midnight laughs at me. I rarely showed anyone the panic I often felt inside. And thankfully, Midnight was savvy enough to makeappear calm. ‘We could talk to her?’ Midnight suggests Mallory? We can’t do that, it would look like we are not on Neah’s side. And I made it quite clear to Mallory that she is not wanted here.’ It might be the only way we get to meet our second chance mate.’ ‘And what if he isn’t as good as Salem? What if he is a horrid man? What if he hates us?”
Then we cross that bridge when we get to it. The hospital is dead as usual. Go find her!’ Stepping out, I could see Neah and my brother having a bit of a heated argument. Dane should know better. Neah was supposed to be resting She’s definitely becmore confident since she has been pregnant.’ Midnight muses.
Hormones and trauma history.’ I mumble back. ‘I just hope Dane is prepared for it to get a lot worse.”
Hey?’ Eric scares the crap out of me. I really have to start paying more attention and not just tune everything out when I’m talking to Midnight.
“Hey Eric, can I help you?”
“Have you seen Klaus?”
“No. He was with Neah for tutoring, so”
I gesture to the couple arguing, “I guess he has headed home.”
“Sure.”
“Have you seen Mallory?”
He cocks a brow at me. “She was down by her house earlier.
“Her house? He nods at me. “Dane has set her up.”
It was not what I was expecting to hear. I was still surprised he had brought her here after what she did to Neah. It wasn’t his usual style.
Eric walks withto showwhich house. He leavesstanding a few metres away as he heads off to find Klaus.
Three times”I go to knock on the door. Three times I turn around and almostwa k away. Just as I’m about to attempt a fourth time. She pulls the door open with force andglares atime. .> – “What?”
She scowls at me. “I’ve been watching you-through the window since youfirst arrived. You have > already rdade it quite clear that you don’t wanthere. So what de-you wantR Have you cto havea go ate? Callall the names under thé sun?”
I couldn’t smell his scent on her anymore. She had clearly showered and his scent had disappeared down the drain with the water. “The guy. The scent that was on you. Have you heard from him?”
“Now it makes sense.”
She smiles at me, “The questions about him, You are mated to him.
You could smell him onand that is why you chere. “Apparently!”
I tut “The last I heard, yes. Yes he is still alive.”
“He was killing the Lycans?”
Mallory nods at me. “The Rogues. Do you want to cin and ask these questions? I’m cooking and I don’t want or need it to burn.
My dark eyes move around to see if anyone is watching. I didn’t.
I didn’t want Neah to think I’m betraying her. I just wanted to know more about my mate. “Sure.”
Following her inside, she gestures to the small kitchen table.
‘Damien is-my best friend.”
Mallory. tells me. “We found each other afew months after he had been turned. By thatpoint, I had been a Lycamfor aliost a year. A very lonely’year.”
“He was bitten too?”
“By the sbitch that bit me!”
Mallory poursa coffee and slides it across the table to me.
“Damien is a good guy. He has a dark side like all of us Lycans. It’s funny, it’s like we could only beca Lycan if we had a bad past.”
She half smiles. “Fucked up, right?”
“You really believe that?”
“I saw the girl’s arms. Whats her name. Jess? Kids don’t cut themselves like that unless there is sseriously bad shit going on.”
“And you?”
“I watched my father stab my mother over and over in a frenzied attack. After I attacked your friend, all I could see was my father in me. I had becexactly like him. And that is exactly what Cassandra wanted, what she hoped for.”
She ruffles up her blonde hair. “Cassandra never chose normal, happy people. She always chose someone with issues. Peaple who would perform the cruellest acts.”
I feel my stomach drop. What was Damien’s past? Why had she chosen him? “And Damien?”
I was almost afraid to ask “It’s something he never talks about.”
“Never?”
“Never. I’m sorry, that’s not the answer you were looking for.”
I stand up to leave and glance back over my shoulder at her. “You should tell Dane and Neah what you told me.”
She snorts. “You think that will make Neah think differently of me?”
“She has a dark past too. The only difference is, she is a pure blood. The last living one. She has a hard ttrusting people after her history was built on lies.”
‘Well that was not what I was expecting!’ Midnight tellsas we make our way to the pack house.
Neah and Dane were no longer outside arguing and were most likely making up when she should be resting, but Jenson is sat out front. Maybe he could givesadvice.
“What were you doing at Mallory’s?”
He asks as I drop down in a seat next to him ‘I’m mated to a Lycan too.”
I didn’t have to look at him to know he was staring at me.
“Mallory? I didn’t think you were into girls?”
“No, not Mallory. Sguy called Damien. His scent was on her. You met him, right?” He nods “And? ‘I don’t know phat you wantto Say, Sis. He’sttall, maybe a little taller than Dane. He has tattoos. Abit => abrupt, 6 but he seems to like thats Mallory. Are you sure you are raated to hit? I could have sworn those we”
were together.”
00 4 “Yes. “Then I feel sorry for you. To know of him and you might never get a chance to meet him.”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence!”
I snap. “How’s Jess? He glares back at me.
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