Ch. 141..145: The Alpha Contract Chapter 141-145

Chapter 0141

"By this Damien guy?"

"Yes."

"After what she did to me?"

"What she did was horrendous, I am not disputing that. And I am thankful that she didn't kill you. But just like you are haunted by your parents death, she is haunted by what she did to you."

"Good!" I lie back and stare up at the ceiling. "She deserves to be haunted."

He doesn't respond and finishes his shower as I lay in silence. Eventually, he climbs into bed, pulling me in against him. "I am not asking you to forgive her. I am not asking you to become friends with her." "I don't understand why she is here." I mutter, fighting the tears

"She didn't have to help me find Jess, but she did anyway. If it wasn't for her. Jess would likely not be here."

"That doesn't answer my question."

He rests his hands on my stomach and exhales. "I don't have an answer right now. Or at least I don't have anything to say that will make you feel better."

Sitting up, I stare at him, "You always have an answer."

He doesn't speak. In the darkness, I watch his chest rise and fall. It wasn't like him. He always had an answer and that unsettled me as much as Mallory being here.

****

At the breakfast table, I sit my face in my hands. I felt like crap.

"Come on." Klaus speaks softly to me. "You are nearly done." He taps the book in front of me.

""Sorry," I mutter.

"Dane said you weren't feeling your best this morning." He offers a smile.

"No one warned me about this side of pregnancy. And I'm so fed up of fucking ginger biscuits!"

He grins and taps the book again. "Try to focus on this."

I read a few more sentences and look up at him. "Has he said anything to you?"

"About Mallory? No."

"But he's with her now." I glance to the window

"He said he is showing her around."

"Why?"

"I didn't get a chance to ask. But I assume it's so she knows where everything is."

"Do you think he is mated to her? Is that why he is welcoming her with open arms?"

"What?!" Klaus splutters his drink all across the table and the book I'm supposed to be reading. "It's just... I was mated to Kyle and Dane at the same time. He could have another mate out there."

"That explains why you look so tired. Were you up all night, thinking about that?"

I look away

"Neah, I don't know if it's your hormones playing tricks on you or you are genuinely overthinking it, but there is no way. Dane is an honest guy. You know how long it took him to find you." He closes the book in front of me. "Let's go for a walk." "I'm supposed to be resting."

"What good is rest going to do if you are just going to lie there stressing out?"

Stepping out into the warm morning sun. I see Dane, standing on his own. His arms folded across his chest as he observes the pack.

"You should be in bed if you are not studying!" He mutters as we approach him.

"Where's Mallory?" I demand and he cocks a brow at me.

"Settling in at her temporary home." His crimson eyes move to Klaus. "Can you give us some space?"

Klaus tells me that he will catch up to me later and gives me a wink as he walks away.

I take a deep breath and ask the question that has been plaguing me all night. "Is there something going on between you two?"

"I've been waiting for you to ask since I read your mind last night." He smiles, trying to break my tension.

"And?"

"No." He pulls me into his arms. "You are my only mate. You are the one I love. You are the one carrying my children." "Then help me understand because I feel like I am losing my mind!" I blink back the tears that are trying to escape. "I think she can help you."

I open my mouth to respond, but all I could do is shake my head and frown at him.

"Neah, if you are carrying Lycans, we need someone who knows more about them. It's still new to you, it's new to all of us here. She is not the person she once was. But she has been living as one for a lot longer than you have." Images of her appear in my mind. Her hands gripped around my face, her thumbs centimetres from my eyes as she slams my head back over and over. Pain shoots up the back of my head like it was happening right now. "The others that have hurt you, they continued to hurt you. She left because she couldn't handle what she had done and she has lived with that since."

"She told me the same thing." I mumble

"You don't believe her or are you choosing not to believe her?"

Chapter 0142

Raven

Crap, crap, crap, crap.

My feet carry me back and forth, along the corridor of the hospital. As usual it is quiet and gives me some time to 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 some kind 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 make me appear 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 become more 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 with me to show me which house. He leaves me standing 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 almost walk away. Just as I'm about to attempt a fourth time. She pulls the door open with force and glares at me.

"What?" She scowls at me. "I've been watching you through the window since you first arrived. You have already made it quite clear that you don't want me here. So what do you want? Have you come to have a go at me? Call me all the names under the 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 on me and that is why you came here." "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 come in 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 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 a few months after he had been turned. By that point, I had been a Lycan for almost a year. A very lonely year." ""He was bitten too?"

"By the same bitch that bit me!" Mallory pours me a coffee and slides it across the table to me.

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"Damien is a good guy. He has a dark side like all of us Lycans. It's funny, it's like we could only become a 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 some seriously 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 become exactly 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. People 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 time trusting people after her history was built on lies."

'Well that was not what I was expecting!' Midnight tells me as 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 give me some advice.

"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. Some guy called Damien. His scent was on her. You met him, right?"

He nods.

"And?"

"I don't know what you want me to say, sis. He's tall, maybe a little taller than Dane. He has tattoos. A bit abrupt, but he seems to like that Mallory. Are you sure you are mated to him? I could have sworn those two were together." "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.

"Don't claim you don't care for her. The moment you heard she was missing, you went after her." "She's okay, shut herself in her bedroom. Do you think the Moon Goddess is playing a prank on us?" "On you, maybe." I laugh

"It's weird right? All three of us being mated to Lycans?" He continues, ignoring my comment.

"The funny thing is, I said the same thing to Neah. If Jess and Damien were never turned, we would never have been mated to them. Does that mean we would have been destined to be mateless for the rest of our lives? Were we always supposed to be mated to Lycans?"

Jenson shrugs his shoulders at me. "You know me, I would have been happy without a mate."

I roll my eyes at my brother. "How you are still alive is beyond me!"

He rises to his feet, patting me on the back. "Love you too, sis!"

Jenson strolls off, leaving me sitting alone. Sometimes I was jealous of my twin's carefree attitude. Rarely did things phase him. Even when he was kicked out, he ended up taking it in his stride.

I sit watching the pack for some time. They move around, completely oblivious to me. I was pretty certain that if Dane wasn't my brother, they probably wouldn't even know of my existence.

Chapter 0144Dane

Curled up in my arms, Neah rests her cheek on my chest as my fingers trail down her back. The smell of our sex still hovers in the room.

No matter how we argued, she couldn't resist it when I started paying attention to the mark on her neck.

For a brief moment, her mind is silent. It felt like it had been forever since her mind had not moved a million miles a second. Over thinking, over analysing.

I feel her eyelashes flutter against my chest as her arms squeeze me. For a second, I thought she had fallen asleep.

"When will you kill Roan?" She asks quietly

"Soon. He will stand trial once we have finished torturing him."

My hand moves down to her stomach, there is already a small curve to it. Easily visible due to how slim my mate is.

Tipping her head back, she kisses me and repositions my hand so it is cupping her pussy. Her kiss deepens as my finger dips between her folds, feeling how wet she still is.

Pressing my thumb against her clit, her hips buck against my hand. A small moan comes from deep inside her as my fingers work quicker.

Her back arches just as someone knocks on the door. Neah lets out a little squeal and immediately freezes, pulling the blankets up around her.

Keeping my hand in place, I slow my fingers down, teasing her clit. She glares at me as I tell whoever is at the door that I'm busy.

Neah tries to hold still, afraid to be caught. She lets out a few quiet moans as I roughly force two fingers in her. As I slide them in and out, she grabs my hand, trying to hold me in place. Frantically shaking her head at me. "Dane, there is a man here. He says he knows you!" The deep voice comes from the other side of the door as I watch my mate silently fight an orgasm.

"Did he give you a name?" I call back as I knead my mates hardened nipples.

"He says his name is Damien."

Neah arches her back, her hips rocking against my hand as she grabs my lengthening dick. She bites down on her bottom lip, squeezing her eyes shut. "Keep him at the entrance. I will be there shortly."

As the footsteps move away, Neahs lips part as she lets out the long, low groan she had been fighting to hold while her muscles spasm around my fingers. "He's here." She mutters, trying to move away from me.

"He can wait. I need to finish what I started"

I rip the blanket back from her, burying my face between her thighs.

She gasps as I suck on her. My tongue flicks along her swollen clit as I spread her legs wide.

I loved that she was mine and I loved that I would be the only one to ever taste her juices.

As she starts to arch her back again, I slam my cock into her

"Dane" she mutters breathlessly. She closes her eyes again as her muscles clamp around my cock, barely giving me room to thrust.

Pulling her upright, I hold her against my chest. Our lips centimetres apart as I thrust up into her.

"Let me see those pretty blue eyes." I growl

They lock on to mine as I push myself up into her again. Her nails dig into my shoulders as her moans echo around the room. With one final moan she grips my cock and her body shudders while I fill her with my cum. She sits still on me, her arms looped around me as her head rests on my shoulder. Her breath is heavy, her heart thuds loudly in her chest.

"You need a shower." I murmur, combing my fingers through her hair.

"Are you trying to say I smell?"

I laugh. "Of our sex."

Her legs curl around my hips as I carry her to the shower, her lips edging along my jawline. Pregnancy certainly made her horny.

It was almost two hours before I finally left the bedroom and headed down to the packs entrance to meet Damien. He was busy arguing with several of my guards.

"Where the fuck have you been?" He snaps the moment he sees me.

"My mate had needs."

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He rolls his eyes at me

"I assume that if you are here. The Rogues are all dead."

His dark eyes just stare at me.

"It's fine." I tell the guard. "He is with Mallory."

"I take it that the female Alpha hasn't killed her then?" Damien asks curiously

"Not yet. Though there is still a good chance."

Damien sighs "Did she apologise like I told her?"

"From what I understand, she said something like an apology would be worthless."

"Mallory!" He mutters to himself.

He comes to a stop and I notice how his nostrils flare. His eyes dart about. I assume he is looking for Mallory and was just about to tell him where she was when I realise he is staring at my sister.

Raven is carrying something in her arms and drops them when she realises she is being watched. Quickly turning on her heel, she marches in the opposite direction with some speed.

"Wolf, right?" Damien murmurs

"Yes, that's Raven, my sister. She's not the greatest fan of you guys."

"Who is!" He shrugs his shoulders at me

"There are only four Lycans here. My mate, Jess, Mallory and now you. Raven is good friends with my mate. And she likes Jess too, but every other Lycan she has met has been a royal pain in the ass. Everyone else here is a Wolf." "Right." His dark eyes still scan the area as we walk towards the house I had set Mallory up in.

Before Damien has a chance to knock on the door. Mallory throws it open, flinging herself at him. "I'm so glad you are alive! But it was a mistake coming here. Now you are here, we can leave."

"I haven't met the female Alpha yet." Damien mutters, putting her back on her feet. He looks at me, waiting for me to respond.

"She is resting right now."

"I see. Maybe a tour then?" He asks hopefully and I see Mallory frown

"Are you up to something? Because I haven't got the time nor the fucking patience for that right now." I warn him.

Damien smiles at me. "If I were, I would have taken out those two guards that were keeping me at the front, waiting for you. In fact I probably could have taken most of your people out in the time you were fucking your mate. Because that can be the only possible reason you have for keeping me waiting for so long. Right?" "Damien!" Mallory snaps at him. "You can't speak to him like that. He is the pack leader."

Damien glances at Mallory and reluctantly, he apologises for the way he spoke to me. "Packs are not how I learned to be a Lycan. We didn't have a hierarchy."

"You didn't, but it sounds like you were the one in charge." I mutter. He had taken control over everything in the short time we were with them.

"I guess so."

"Why do you want to meet Neah?" I push as Mallory retreats into the house

"You said it yourself, Dane. She is a female Lycan Alpha. The last one. She needs as much protection as she can get."

"She has the pack."

"Yes, but they are not Lycans." Damien frowns

What he is trying to say, hits me. "The Rogues are alive, aren't they?"

"One got away."

"We can take it out." I mutter, I wasn't afraid of any beast.

"You have fought against Lycans, correct?" Damien asks

"Yes."

"But you haven't battled Rogues. They are darker and far more dangerous than those who shift between human and beast. They don't fight to win a battle, they fight for fun. They won't just rip throats out or kill, they will tear apart an entire body, dragging the bones and organs from the flesh while the prey is still alive. Feasting on them as they beg for death."

"How did you kill them?"

"Luck, but I've been studying them for years. I've provided them with food. They don't care for Wolves or other Lycans. They don't care for a chain of command. The thing they care about most is a full stomach."

"You killed them in their sleep?"

"I did what needed to be done."