Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
“She’s my sister, of course I know.”
He slapson the back. “Like I said, give her time.”
Her first mate was an idiot for rejecting her.
He heads back in the room and Raven takes his place. She stares atwith those beautiful dark eyes and I can’t help but glance over the rest of her. The blue shirt she is wearing, hides her frame. Yet the skinny black jeans shows off her legs and ass.
“You want to protect Neah?”
She asks quietly “Yes.”
“Why?”
She raises her brow atand presses her lips together. “She has Dane. she has the entire pack.”
“She is our life line. The only pure blood left.
“Right.”
Her brow creases as she folds her arms up over her chest. She sighs. “If you are gaing to reject me, can you get it over with? I have stuff to do.”
I keep my mouth shut and just watch her. I could see the anger bubbling up in her eyes, the longer I didn’t speak, the more irritated she grew. “Fucking Lycans!”
She growls and storms off With a quick glance back at the Alpha, I follow Raven. She marches across the grounds and into the forest. Is that what they do here, they don’t tell anyone where they are going? Trekking after her, I keep my distance. She winds through the trees, dragging her hands across each trunk. It tooka minute to realise she is marking them with her scent in case anything happens.
“He’s an asshole!”
She speaks openly to herself. “No.”
She mutters Who the hell was she talking to? There was no one here She makes her way to a stream. Pulling her boots and socks off, stie rolls upher jeans and wades into the water; Her eyes are glazed as she continues talking to herself. Mostly complaining about me. I listen to her One sided argument with amusenyent. She couldn’t be linking the Alpha. Only her mate and other LyCans could do that. Yet. its SOU nded like it was someone who knewowe were mated. So who I was shé talking to? 6 With her eyes glazed over, she is oblivious towatching her. Even when I step out from the trees in full view, she doesn’t noticeor the creature that is hunting her.
I had been so concerned about making sure the Alpha was protected when Raven seemed like she needed it more.
The crack of a twig draws her attention back. Her glazed eyes focus on me, but I hadn’t moved. I wasn’t the one responsible for the sound. “What do you want?!”
She snaps atI hold a hand up. Listening to the sounds of the forest. It takesa second to hear the erratic heartbeat. Shit, it must have trackedhere. “Raven, get out of the water and move towards me.”
She doesn’t move and glares at”Raven. You need to move now!”
She turns to look behind her. The leaves of the bushes start to move. Raven starts to back out of the stream in my direction Spinning her around to look at me, I see the panic written on her face.
“Run, find Dane.
She takes off running as the Rogue Lycan shows itself to us. It’s on all fours as it creeps forward. The Rogues had found it easier to move $t creeps that way, Using four limbs to propel itself even faster. Drool hangs from its bared teeth. The snout is wrinkled up as it growls at me. Its claws pierce the dirt as it slowly makes its way to the stream.
It sniffs the air “A whole place full of Wolves.”
It was something I should have told Dane. Not only had they becferal to the point that they could no longer shift back, but they had learned to speak.
“You are not welchere.”
I growl back. “You need to leave before you end up like the others! It laughs’at the my words, yet it it backs up into the bushes where it cfrom. The erratic heart fading until I could no longer hear it. “FUCK”
The surviving Rogue was the worst_ one of all. It ad a hunger unlike the others. I had seen it make its food last for days on end Enjoying thes screams of its victims, torturing”
themes it ate a tiny piece at atime. Butl\ was partly responsible for that. Isrought them food wher-they couldn’t find any. I hear footsteps. quickly moving through the forest. I smell Raven but she is accompanied by others. Dane appears first, closely followed by a couple of other men and Raven.
Her dark eyes scan me, like she is checkingfor wounds. “Where is it?”
Dane demands.
“It backed off.”
I mutter.
“You brought it here? It followed you?”
Dane presses “Apparently.
“Why didn’t you kill it?”
A man with long dark hair asksI sigh, only Mallory knew the truth but I had to tell them “He was my younger brother.”
Raven It had been two days since Damien had announced that the Rogue is or was his brother. He hadn’t said anything more about it, and could often be found following Neah around. Whether she wanted him to or not.
It made it impossible forto spend twith her, when I was constantly being distracted by his scent.
And still, he had barely spoken to me. He watchedwhen I was present. Still keeping his distance like he was concerned I was going to attack him. The moment Eric or Dane were around, he would disappear to Mallory’s home.
He’s being an idiot.’ Midnight mumbles as I enter the packhouse ‘Tellabout it!’ Midnight was more frustrated than I was.
“She’s getting dressed.”
Dane mutters towith a frown as he strides by and towards the front door. “Damien is outside the bedroom. “Are you really daing this? You are letting him guard her. We don’t know anything about him!”
He stops and rolls his eyes at me. The sway he had done for years when he thought I was panicking about nothing. I wish he knew how irritating it was.
He turns around properly and rests his hands on my shoulders. “Raven, speak to him. He is your mate.”
“I don’t understand why you are being like this. I thought you of all people would hate this. Especially after everything the pack has been through.”
“Things change. He isn’t here for me. He wants to protect Neah.”
He sighs, running a hand through his short hair “Whaat if he is like Devon. What if it’s a trap? And you are just walking away, leaving him watching her.”
“Just because he hasn’t explained the situation to you, it doesn’t mean he hasn’t explained himself to me.”
Dane tuts “Oh. He’s told you?”
I ask, surprised “Out of respect for my position. yes. Now go and spend smuch needed twith my mate before she has another wave of hormones.
I frown, but he just shakes his head and walks out of the door.
Damien is literally stood like a soldier in front of her bedroom door. His hands are clasped together and he stares straight ahead. I try to move silently, but his head slowly turns in my direction. He does not speak.
“I’m here to see Neah.”
I whisper. It felt like I had been caught trying to steal The way he stares back atmakes it sound like I’ve just told him I have a bomb.
He steps to one side, watchingapproach With one hand on the door handle, I turn my face to him. “Why are you treatingthis way?”
“What way would that be?”
“Like I’m skind of trash you just chucked out your car window? It’s not my fault you have been paired to me! I already told you, just rejectand get it over with!”
One side of his lips tug up, but the smirk quickly disappears.
‘Is this a joke to you?”
I snap “Do you know how mac itis drivingup the wall? Knowing that youare —. about. Snelling your scent < everywhere I go and yet you haven’t eventnade a move. I don’ know whether I’m coming or go ingwith yal Do you even want mézas a mate?”
My heart thuds in my chest as I rant at him.
“You hate Lycans?”
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