Ch. 101..105: The Alpha Contract Chapter 101-105

Chapter 106

Dane is scowling and I have a headache brewing.

"It makes you nervous?" Dane mutters

"Of course it does."

I raise an eyebrow at Klaus. He was tall and wide like most of the men here. Though he wasn't like the others. Preferring to be shut away reading and researching. I don't think I've even seen him training with the others. There was a moment where I questioned Dane about Klaus really being a Wolf. He reassured me that Klaus went on every pack run and had done so since he had been in Black Shadow.

"You were bullied." I mumble remembering what I had been told. "You never knew when something was coming and that's why this is making you nervous."

His deep green eyes lock with mine. I knew my words rang true.

"I like you, Neah. I don't want to see anything bad happen to you."

'Tell him it won't.' Nyx murmurs

I repeat her words and Klaus sighs, like he doesn't believe it. His green eyes slowly move up to Dane. "What do you want me to do?"

****

The news of me accepting my position travels thick and fast. Dane was inundated with questions and spent most of the afternoon and late evening in talks with his pack.

He had pulled them back from the forest, insisting everyone gets a decent amount of rest and to fuel up while they can.

We didn't know when they would attack, we just knew they would. So Dane was telling them to sleep while they could. Though he was expecting a long night.

It was almost midnight when I'm pulled from my sleep. Panic tears through me, this was it, this was happening.

"Jensons awake." Dane mutters to me. He flicks on the light, almost blinding my tired eyes. "He wants to speak with you."

"I thought we were being attacked." My hand is pressed to my chest

"Come!" Dane grabs my hands, pulling me up into a seated position. He is already moving to the closet to pull out clothes for me.

We trudge across the grounds to the hospital and I couldn't help but notice how many Wolves were awake and moving around at this hour

"What are they doing?"

"Prepping the pups."

"You are letting the pups fight?" I ask in shock, disgusted by the idea.

"No, it won't be safe here for them and I need to preserve my pack. The elder Wolves are taking them to another location until it is safe to return." I breathe a sigh of relief. "Jess too?"

"That will be up to Jess. She is still an emotional wreck. And technically not part of this pack."

It wasn't what I wanted to hear. I wanted to know that she was going to be kept safe. She had been thrown into a life that she didn't deserve.

He presses his hand against my lower back, guiding me towards the hospital.

I could hear Jenson talking before we even opened the doors. He was demanding that Raven let him out.

"You are not fully healed yet!" Raven snaps at him as we enter the hospital. "Besides, you wanted to see Neah and she is here."

As soon as I step into his room, Jenson's dark eyes lock with mine. He doesn't speak. Had they told him? Did he know that I had accepted my position? 'He knows.' Nyx mutters

Seconds pass where no one speaks and yet it feels like hours. His dark eyes remain on me as if he was trying to figure something out.

"What are you thinking?" Dane asks him.

"It depends. How close are you willing to let them get?"

The idea of me being bait was changing. I knew it was me he was talking about. It's what they were after.

Dane searches my face before returning his gaze to his brother. "If they get close enough to touch her, you better be prepared for the aftermath."

There was that warning tone again. Low but spiked full of danger. A personal warning to Jenson that if his plan fails, Dane will kill him. It almost scared me about how far he was willing to go to protect me. Almost.

Chapter 0107

Dane

"But...."

"It's not negotiable!" I snarl at my brother. There was no way on this planet that I was going to send my mate to her own death.

"Dane, you brought me back here for this very reason!"

"There has to be another way!"

I was grateful that Raven had convinced Neah to go for a walk with her. She didn't need to hear Jenson and I arguing. Because knowing her, she would probably agree to his insane idea.

"They will know, Jenson. They won't be stupid enough to think that I've abandoned her. They will wait, they will know that some of us linger. They will know that I will not leave her unattended!" "That's precisely why it will work."

If he wasn't lying in a hospital bed, he would be feeling the full force of my fist.

'You were the one who wanted to bring him back!' Aero mutters

"Sometimes, the best plans are the most obvious." Jenson sighs while refusing to look at me.

"Well find another fucking way!"

I drop into the chair next to his bed. I don't know why, but I expected better from my brother. Surely he knew that I was not willing to play with Neahs life

"Just hear me out, will you?" He snaps back at me.

I wave a hand for him to continue knowing full well my answer would still be no.

"You can link her, right?" He asks

"Obviously."

"She won't be alone. We send her into the forest, while the pack picks the Lycans off."

"No. I am not sending her anywhere alone!" We were going around in fucking circles, my patience is barely hanging on by a thread. Why couldn't he get it into his head that this was not an option?

"Then I'm out of ideas, Dane because you didn't like the first plan either. These bastards won't be easy to take down. We don't know what kind of numbers they have. We have no idea how many they have turned. For all we know, there could be thousands making their way towards us as we speak." He rubs his temples. "Some could be as young as that kid at Eric's house. Because they can shift at what...thirteen?"

He pulls faces as he shifts in the bed.

"You are right." I mutter. "We don't know how many they have coming and look at you. One big fucker took you down."

He bares his teeth at me. "I was protecting your mate."

"Evidently!" I snort, "she was the one who killed it."

The colour drains from his face. "Raven said it was you and Klaus."

I shake my head at him. "Not only has Neah accepted being an Alpha, she fully shifted. Killing it the way she killed that other prick. The only thing I did was burn the body." "She went for the heart again, didn't she?"

"There's no coming back from a pierced heart." I muse. Twice now and the only thing she went for each time was the heart. Throats are what most Wolves go for. It was almost like I rise from my seat. "If they manage to get their hands on her, she won't survive."

"Don't they want her for an heir?"

I was ingrained in her what to do.

"It's different now. She's exactly who she is supposed to be and if they find someone to bind her again. She won't survive. Every road points to her death, Aero and I refuse to let that happen." He looks me dead in the eye, "So put a fucking pup in her!"

"We have had this conversation." I mutter tirelessly. It just didn't seem to be getting through to him

'I have told you time and time again. Your brother is stupid.' Aero shakes his head

"No." Jenson pushes himself up a little more. Screwing his nose up. "You are not following what I'm saying. They only have to believe she is carrying your heir. And so does everyone else." "You want to win this war by lying?"

"I'm just saying, all is fair in war. It's not like it's the worst thing we would have ever done." His dark eyes flash around the room as though searching for someone who might be listening.

"Play them at their own game. Isn't it what they have always done? I mean, they made her believe that she was one of us. We can call in every single pack that you have a loyal contract with. Because the Lycans won't just be targeting her, they will be targeting your pup." He pops the final p before adding, "She doesn't have to be anywhere near the fight. They just need to believe it."

Chapter 0108

"And if they attack in the next few hours?" My eyes flicker up to the clock on the wall

He follows my gaze to the clock. "They would be stupid to attack now knowing that you have done exactly what I said. If they know anything, they won't attack when there is a chance that everyone is fully rested."

"I need to speak to her first." I mutter. Neah isn't the greatest of liars. If I could see through it, then something tells me Trey or Cassandra will to.

"I'm telling you. If you want to keep her safe and away from whatever is going to happen, then this is the way." He watches me get to my feet. "If you see my twin, can you send her in?"

I roll my eyes, "She won't let you out until she knows you are healed."

"A Wolf has got to try."

Raven and Neah are sitting on the small bench outside, deep in conversation about something. They both fall silent as I approach. "He wants to see you." I mutter to Raven.

"I've already told him no. I know him, he will go straight back out there." She shakes her head and storms inside, ready to lay down the law with Jenson.

Neah is quiet, slowly picking at the wooden bench and avoiding my eyes.

"You are doing it again." I murmur, sitting where Raven had sat.

"Raven told me."

"Did she now? She certainly has a habit of doing that." I frown, she hadn't been inside when Jenson and I had spoken of the plan. "What exactly did she say?"

"I would be in the forest....."

"No." I cut her off before she has a chance to finish and pull her in against me. "Not a chance. But there is another idea of Jenson's that I need to see if you are okay with."

She tilts her head to one side, the moon reflects off of her blue eyes, reminding me of a time my father took the three of us to a crystal clear lake. That was the last time I saw my father and my step mother.

"Not here." I had no idea how she was going to react and I didn't need or want the attention.

'She won't agree to it.' Aero mumbles

'I have to try.'

We head back to the house, barely stopping to speak to those around us.

She sits in her usual spot in the office, pulling her legs up to her chest. Her messy dark hair falls around her face and she quickly tucks it back behind her ears.

Her eyes grow wider and wider as she listens to me explain Jenson's idea. As I finish talking, she blinks a few times and looks at me as if I'm crazy.

"You.....you want to put your pup in me? I thought....I thought we were going to wait a year?"

"That was the contract you wanted. I personally think we are long past that." I cock a brow in amusement, but she doesn't see it that way.

She snorts and blinks a few more times, only for the blue to steadily get darker. She was talking to Nyx or Nyx was at the surface.

"I can't." She mutters, keeping her gaze low. "I'm not ready for that. I'm twenty two. The only places I have ever been are here, Moonshine and the city. Which I only went to once. I still can't read properly and I definietly can't write. What kind of a mother would that make me?!" She shakes her head, "I'm sorry. I can't"

"In that case, you will need to lie." I keep my focus on her, trying to read her

"Huh? I can't lie about something like that." Her eyes meet mine with a deep scowl.

When I don't reply. She leans back, tilting her head over the backrest, eyes fixating on the ceiling. "He thinks it's the only other way?"

"Yes. Other packs who owe me will join the cause."

"Because they will think I'm carrying your heir."

I nod.

"I can't make a decision like that, Alph.....Dane."

'Told you.' Aero muses. He loved it when he was right.

"Look at me." I order. Her face slowly turns to mine. "This way, you live."

Chapter 0109

'He's saying that we are going to die.' Nyx murmurs. I couldn't tell if she was angry or amused. Either way, she sounds....content.

"I may be lacking in certain areas, but I know exactly what he means!' I snap at her

She sighs, 'We will have pups eventually. He is our mate. We are bonded to him. We might as well.'

Her words don't reassure me as I make my way back to the bedroom. In fact they just make me more anxious. 'Exactly.' I snap, 'Eventually!' 'Then lie!'

'I'm rubbish at lying!'

Nyx falls into silence. She had quickly learned when to back off, knowing that her words were falling on deaf ears. It was easier to think when I couldn't hear voices. Easier to get caught up in my own words as I try to figure things out.

I laugh to myself as I drop on the bed, still fully dressed. If it wasn't for Dane, I would have thought the voice would be a sign of me losing my marbles.

My eyes move to the clock, it was almost four in the morning. I was exhausted and something told me it was going to be a long day. Barely keeping my eyes open and rolling onto my stomach, I close my eyes, just a few hours, that was all I needed. Screams echo around me. People are running and shouting for help all while I just stood there, watching, caught in the commotion.

As someone moves, blood-caked faces come into view. My parents. My stomach plummets and my lungs shrink. My heartbeat is so loud it rattles through my head.

I wanted to go to them, but I couldn't move, my feet superglued to the floor. Their names don't even leave my tongue as I try to call out to them.

There's pure chaos around me and tears begin to burn my retinas until I see him. Trey, hiding in the shadows. A smile so big it made him look scary. He watches them, hidden from sight, he had been waiting for this. Fingers curl around my wrist until I'm being dragged away.

"She poisoned them!"

""Get her out of here!"

"Neah! What did you do?"

I stare into Cassandra's eyes. No emotion behind them as she pulls me away from the nightmare. I look up at her, but not as a child, but as the woman I've become.

"Stupid girl!" Her hand slices across my face. She says something else too, but I hear Dane calling me. How was he here?

My face turns in all directions, looking for the source. Cassandra's painted talons grip my face, squeezing my chin and forcing me to look at her.

"Neah, wake up! Neah, you are having a nightmare!"

I gasp as I'm ripped from the memory. My lungs seem to fight the oxygen that's trying to fill them. My heart races and I feel beads of sweat running down my face. "You're okay. You are safe." Dane whispers

"It....It wasn't a nightmare. It was...a.... memory?" I couldn't be sure if it was, what if I was just seeing what I wanted to see? What if my own subconscious is playing tricks on me. "Your parents?" He asks quietly,

I nod, tugging my sweat drenched top off. "I think....I think Trey was there that night. But I can't be certain."

Dane asks me to run through it with him while pulling me against him. His fingers comb through my sweaty hair and not once does he interrupt me.

"Is it just my mind, or do you think it's a piece I forgot?"

"You said it was like you were seeing it through adult eyes? There is a good chance that the memory is right. As pups, we tend to see what we want to see, blocking out what we don't deem as important. But nevertheless, it is still there and still present." They were the reason I never got to grow up with loving parents. And why? All to be in a position of power one that neither of them were entitled to.

"I want them dead, Dane." I want to see the blood pour from their eyes just as it did my parents. I wanted to be the last thing they see as their life fades away. But it would mean that I needed to lie, or I needed to let him put a pup in me.

Either option felt wrong.

'It will keep us alive.' Nyx whispers

"They will be dead soon enough." Dane murmurs in my ear

He kisses my cheek, slowly moving down to my neck. His teeth graze over my skin as he nips at my flesh and a quiet groan leaves my throat. He slowly moves down the bed, his lips trail over my skin, leaving spikes of electricity that make my nipples harden. Taking one in his mouth, his tongue flicks over the top, making it impossibly harder when suddenly he bites down, sending a strange new wave of pleasure through me.

As his eyes flash up at me, locking onto mine, I knew exactly what he was doing. He was taking the choice away from me and I didn't want to stop him.

I feel the warm trickle of blood leak down the side of my tit. His tongue works fast to capture any drops before he repeats the process with my other nipple.

The bite was harder the second time around, his teeth sank deeper like when he had marked me. I gasp which seems to make him suck harder. My hands lock in his dark hair as I arch my back, forcing my nipple deeper into his mouth while my panties become more and more drenched.

Chapter 110

A hand cups my wet spot, a finger slides back and forth over the fabric, teasing my need

His lips slam against mine as he forces me to taste my own blood. I grind myself against his hand, desperate for more than a grope. I feel him smile against my lips as his fingers move to my waistband.

He lifts my ass from the bed and quickly removes the joggers along with my soaked panties. His lips make their way up my inner thigh and his tongue quickly finds my clit,

My head throws itself back as I let out a long low moan as his teeth clamp down on my swollen spot. I grind my pussy against his face knowing that he was going to be covered in my juices as the spasms start to take over.

He doesn't stop. His tongue is quickly accompanied with his finger, bringing me to an explosive orgasm.

Before I have a chance to do anything, he flips me over, pulling my legs over his shoulders until he buries his tongue in my wet spot again

"Oh Dane." I moan as his tongue flicks against my clit from the new angle. My thighs clamp around his head, I didn't want him to stop as my body spasmed against him

"I want you to sit on my cock." He mutters as the orgasm leaves me blissful

Turning to face him, he already had it out. His hand runs up and down the length of it as he watches me. It seemed bigger, almost wider.

Dane pulls me towards him until I'm straddling his lap, the tip of his hardened length already pressing against my hole.

He grabs my chin, forcing my gaze on his. "Slow,"

I lower myself and it's tight, tighter than it had ever been before.

"Slower!" He mutters through gritted teeth, pulling my face towards his. "I want to make sure I put a pup in you."

The moment I hit his base, he seems to swell more, locking us together. I couldn't move even if I wanted to. His cock is buried so deep in me, I was certain I could feel it in my stomach.

His lips trail across my jaw and a hand locks in my hair, pulling my head back. His tongue flickers over the mark he gave me and seconds later I feel his teeth again, sinking deep into my flesh. A moan creeps out of my throat and the moment he hears it, his teeth sink deeper still.

He thrusts up into me, a mixture of pain and pleasure tears through my body, catapulting me into pure happiness.

As his teeth retract, I fall forward against his chest, unable to keep myself up right.

He quickly turns us over, resting himself on his elbows so his full weight isn't crushing me. As his eyes lock with mine, he thrusts into me.

"Again?" I whisper, my insides already throbbing.

"I told you, I need to be certain."

It was hours before he let me out of that bedroom. He had so much determination, it was like he was the one in heat and I was going to feel the results for days.

****

"I don't need to hear about you having sex with my brother!" Raven whines covering one of her ears as she hands me an ice pack.

I slide it between my thighs, grateful for the relief as I sit down. "I'm not telling you about that. I just need to know if it worked."

"It's too early to tell. Just be grateful that Trey and his crew haven't attacked. It means there is more of a chance of him getting you pregnant." She peers up at me over her coffee. "What made you change your mind?"

"It wasn't a change of mind. I just....." It sounded really stupid. "I couldn't make the choice between lying and just getting pregnant. I let Dane take control."

"Hmm, well, it would happen eventually, right?"

"That's what Nyx said. But what if it doesn't work?"

"Never in the universe of Wolves has it failed."

I feel my heart plummet "I'm not a Wolf. And Lycans are a dying breed."

There is a lapse of silence. Raven was lost for words and every time she opened her mouth, the words would disappear.

"I'm not.... I'm not trying to be negative, but we do need to look at the facts."

Nyx is uncomfortably silent too and that was not helpful.

"There's signs before it will even show on a scan." Raven mutters. "Your scent, it will alter slightly to compensate for the extra hormones. Your mood might change."

I almost snorted, she didn't hear the dark thoughts I had that always seemed to pop up and surprise me.

"You will pee more. Uh, some of the women complain of sore boobs. And then there is the obvious one. No period. It's just a waiting game."

"A waiting game." I murmur. Knowing that Dane wouldn't settle for that. He was already getting antsy about Trey not turning up. In fact it had been so quiet, no one had seen a Lycan. And that set me on edge more than anything.