Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West >>
Damien is already staring at him, his arms folded across his chest. but his face shows no anger, no frustration, itis practically unreadable. A statement I had heard from Neah many times but never quite understood what she meant until now.
Salem’s eyes are on me. His snout pulled up into a warning. yet no sound comes from him. His eyes briefly move to the crutches before locking on mine again. I didn’t know what I expected to feel, but feeling nothing is worse “Ask him whatever you want.”
Damien whispers to me. “I am not concerned about what he once was to you.”
“You hurt me.”
I mutter as silence falls. “Why me? I loved you once and you loved me. I always thought you rejectedbecause of my brother?”
“I did.”
He pulls on his chains but it makes no difference, his chains had been shortened until he was practically pressed against the wall.
“You did? You didn’t rejectbecause you were a Lycan? “Both.
“You wanted her, but Cassandra was afraid you would reveal the truth. Wasn’t she?”
Dane asks as he locks Roans’ cell.
“And you ended up finding out anyway.”
Salem snaps. “Do you know why she wanted a contract with you? “You weren’t around when the contract was in place.
“Years you idiot. Years she was planning that stupid contract idea of hers.
“It’s true.”
Damien mutters. “A Wolf had discovered the pack. They didn’t have the numbers needed for protection.”
“Roan.”
Dane replies, glancing back at Rean’s cell. “Roan was the one who discovered Moonshine. Roan was the one moving in to kill you all. He admitted it to Neah.”
Dane tells us that Neah met Roan as a pup, though she can’t remember and he becinfatuated with her and their kind. “Are you….serious?”
I ask in shock.
Dane is too busy looking at Salem to answer me. He points to Roans cell. “Did he not mention that to you while you were making your little plans? If he had attacked Moonshine earlier, you wouldn’t exist.
“You don’t know that!”
Salem growls “They were strong. They manipulated an Alpha. “You mean a child?”
I snap, immediately jumping to Neah’s defence. “Your current Alpha?”
“She is not my Alpha!”
“Why are you trying to stick up for them, Salem” Damien demands. Can you still not see that Cassandra M e fucked you over. She promised. you the world and she gave you nothing apartfrom the desire to be a predator!”
Salem tugs atthe chains, growling, though it makes no difference. I’m ~N not sure what he hoped to m achieve but he wasn’t going anywhere. Dane had nvade sure of that. The dungeons would be the last t thing Satém ever sees.
After Salem rejectedand broke my heart, I questioned the Moon Goddess and her plan questibhed fate too. Wondering if it was juste word thrown around to make people feel-Hetter about themselvegand abéut the future. To give them hope.
But as I stood here looking at all the men, knowing how messed up all this is. I knew one thing for certain, we were all tied together because of Neah. All of us.
I stare at the beast that was once Salem. I don’t hear the voice I know. I don’t smell his scent. I just see an angry beast. Was I always supposed to be rejected by him? Was this the plan for me? Was I always supposed to have Damien cinto my life? My eyes shift from Salem to Damien “Are you okay?”
Damien whispers towith a frown “Yes.”
I mutter. “The smell is a bit much, I just need sair.
Liar’ Midnight mumbles Damien starts to follow me. I shake my head at him. “Stay, help Dane get answers. I’ve heard all I need to hear. I will just be outside.”
His frown deepens, but letsgo. I feel his eyes burning into the back of my as I hobble away on the crutches.
I drop on the grass outside, rubbing my bandaged thigh before laying back under the warm evening sun. I had been so angry at Salem for so long, but in there, standing in front of him. I felt nothing for the man I once loved.
I had spent so long trying to get over him when in reality, there was nothing forto get over. He had made his choice. I feel someone’s weight drop on the grass next to me.
“Are you okay?”
Klaus asks.
“Just questioning a few things.”
“The Moon Goddess?”
He asks curiously.
I prop myself up on my elbows and tilt my head to one side. “How did you know?”
“I would too, if I were in your shoes. And because I did.”
“Moonshine wanted a contract long before they asked for it. They had already started turning humans at that point. All because Roan discovered Neah when she was a pup.” I tell him He nods his head at me.”I had thought that was the case. Have you ever considered that this is what the Moon Goddess’s plan was. To try and right something that Neah’s family did to her? To give her a better life?”
He pauses and puts his hands behind his head, staring up at the blue sky.
‘I’ve had the squestions as you, Raven. The Moon Goddess can’t control what we do with our lives, that’s freewill, but she can put things in our path and alter our journeys. She can test us. But look at me, my parents boundonce and if Dane hadn’t broughthere, I would be living the sshitty life. She put Dane in my path and I’ve never once regretted it.”
“Thanks Klaus.”
I smile at him. “You have always been good at reassuring my mind when Midnight can’t.”
He winks atand gets to his feet. “Glad I could be of shelp. Do you want shelp getting up? “No, I’m just going to lie here and enjoy the evening sun a little longer.”
It’s not long before I’m hit with Damien’s scent. His frcompletely blocks the sun as he stands over me. “Did you fall down?”
“No.”
“Do you need help? “No.”
“Just give her a few minutes.”
I hear Jenson shout from nearby. “She’s weird like this.”
‘I’m not weird.”
I shout back, remembering how Salem always referred toas a weirdo before roughly slamming his lips against mine.
Damien is Still looking down at me. with his ¢ dark eyes, and for a brief moment, I was glad he hadn’t ¢ markedyet. I didn’t need, im to hear what was going on in. iny head.
He holds a hand out toas I sit up. Pullingto my feet with ease. His large hands quickly find my waist as he holdsagainst him We hadn’t had more than a few minutes alone together since I had woken up in the hospital and the tension between us was just that; tense. “Did he say anything else?”
I ask quietly while bathing in his sweet vanilla scent
“He’s just going around in circles. I think, in sways, he is too far gone tebe able to have astraightforward conversation. We are nly hearing snippets of his thoughts and knowledge. “
“Are you going to kill him?”
“No. Dane wants him to live for a little longer. He wants Mallory to talk to Salem.”
“Mallory? “She was the one who helped me.
I stumble back, almost out of his» grip, briefly forgetting that I needed to use crutches. He keeps his ands on ny ‘hips, stoppingfrom ‘falling any y further.
I don’t know why I didn’t see it sooner. “You fed on Wolves?”
“It’s not something I’m proud of His voice is low as his dark eyes stay focussed on me. “How? How were you able to turn back?”
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