Ch. 256..260: The Alpha Contract Chapter 256-260

Chapter 0256

"Oh."

With each thrust, he pinches my nipples until I start to bounce on his cock, taking the control away from him.

He drags his fingers along my thighs and up my stomach as he groans. His eyes flicker between looking at my body and locking eyes with me in the mirror. "So fucking tight!" He groans as I slam down on his cock.

Damien growls through gritted teeth, squeezing my tits tight against my chest and I feel him swell even more as my muscles clenched around him.

I throw my head back against his shoulder, riding the orgasm as he fills me with his load.

"You will get me into trouble." He mutters in my ear as his lips graze my skin.

"Then tell them we are trying for a pup." I say quietly

He grips my face, turning it towards him. His dark eyes filled with excitement but hesitation. "I don't want to lie."

"It doesn't have to be a lie." I murmur and kiss him

"Even with all the drama going on?"

I nod. I had been thinking about it for a few months. Waiting for the right time. But there was never going to be a right time and if Dane and Neah could do it when they are the centre of the problem, then why couldn't Damien and I do it. I could already see how amazing he is with Dorothy.

He kisses me. "Then definitely no more playing with yourself unless I'm present." He winks at me and leads me to the shower. "Better go for round two."

"I haven't stopped birth control yet."

He grins. "There's nothing wrong with a bit of practice."

****

"One condition." Dane snaps at me. "You take me or your mate."

I groan. I know Damien had warned me but I didn't actually think they would follow through.

"Why can't I take Neah?" I protest.

"Neah is with the twins. She....needs it."

"Oh. Well then Mallory can come with me. Jenson can't get to us and you have the key so we can't to him. If that's what you are worried about." "Why does everything have to be a battle with you?"

"It's not." I shrug my shoulders.

Dane props his elbows on his desk and rests his chin on his clasped hands. His crimson eyes settle on Damien. "Fine, take Mallory."

"Seriously?" Damien scoffs."

"She's right. He can't get out. They can't get in."

"Do I need to remind you that Salem escaped!"

"The bars have been made narrower since then. Anyway, the idiot is shifting in and out of Wolf form like a fucking mad man. Maybe his twin can get through to him. We've been trying for two days."

I do a small fist pump at the victory. I rarely won anything when it came to Dane.

He calls Mallory to come and meet me. She smiles at me, but refuses to look at my mate. I don't even understand why they were still arguing over who her mate was. It wasn't actually any of our business. "You want me to help?" Mallory asks in surprise when Dane tells her what we need her for.

"You don't have to do anything." Just 'supervise"" I make sure that both men see my air quotes. I loved them both, but their lack of trust in me was just frustrating.

"Sure. I can do that."

Mallory follows me across to the dungeons. We slip down the stairs quietly, but Jenson quickly becomes aware of my presence.

""Well it's about time sis!"

 

Chapter 0257

Raven

The way he spoke to me sounded so familiar. Midnight drops her guard too. It sounded just like the Jenson we know, the brother I loved. Not the mad man everyone is claiming him to be.

I hadn't seen him since the day Jess was killed. When Damien saw him in the street, the idea of seeing him had been more than I could handle and I had fled to the car.

I still didn't understand why he left the pack and I definitely didn't understand why he had chosen her. The very thing he claimed he hated.

"Don't." I whisper, feeling my heart break all over again.

"Don't what?" He speaks to me from the back of the cell. "Call you sister?"

I frown, looking at his tired and gaunt face. He had been handsome once. I mean all the ladies seemed to love him and he had no end of women hanging off his every word. But to me. He looked exhausted and withdrawn, not anything like how I imagined. A mate bond gave you strength, but from what I could see, it looked like his had been zapped.

I glance back at Mallory. She hadn't said anything, exactly like I asked.

"Why did you bring her? Stupid bitch is the reason I'm here." Jenson growls

Mallory rolls her eyes and I turn back to face my brother. "You know you are alive because of her and Dane. Dane brought you back here."

"And chucked me in the dungeons. Though he looks like he has made some improvements since I was last down here." He laughs. His thinning shoulders raise up and down with the deep sound. Surely Dane saw the same as what I did, that Jenson wasn't in the right frame of mind. That something wasn't right.

'Aspen is weak.' Midnight mutters. 'The rapid shifting has made him weak. Jenson isn't allowing enough time for the bones to heal. Almost like he is punishing himself.'

"What has she turned you into?" I ask, overwhelmed by sadness for him.

He stretches his arms out wide. "This is me, sis. I don't know who you are talking about."

"This isn't you. This isn't even a shell of you. You are not the brother I know and love."

He chuckles again. "Maybe my mate just showed me who I'm supposed to be."

"She's not your mate, Jenson. She is just some whore that you attached yourself to and she is using you."

""Jealous?"

"Of you? How can anyone be jealous of you, Jenson. I will always care about you, because you are my twin. But jealousy? You are on another fucking planet if you think I'm jealous! Do you not care about me, Dane, the pack?" "No."

One word. One single word that brings everything crashing around me. He hadn't hesitated. He hadn't paused to think over his answer. It just tumbled out like it was so final.

"She really means that much to you?"

"She's my mate."

"No she isn't. A mate isn't someone we choose. A mate isn't someone who forces us to do things that we don't agree with. A mate is someone who is selected for us because they make us complete." "Why would you think I don't agree with her? I went to her and she agreed to help me."

"With what?" Mallory mutters.

I glare at her and she pretends to zip her lips shut.

"It's mental that you act like she belongs in the pack." Jenson muses. "It's mental that you let them slip into our way of life."

"You have marked a Lycan! Why the hell is it okay for you, but not us?"

He rolls his dark eyes at me. "Oh Raven!"

'He has more than lost it.' Midnight murmurs

"I'm guessing she wants to kill Neah and you want to take out our pack, because you blame us for your idiotic moves! But if you don't believe in pack life, what's the fucking point?"

"What did you hope for, Raven? That you would come down here and find a way to save me? You are the one that needs your eyes opening."

I slink over to the wooden chair and sit on it. Mallory leans against the wall. She's picking at her fingernails, acting like she is no longer interested in Jenson's words.

"Do you have something to say?" I mutter

She frowns as she raises her eyes to meet mine. The look that basically said I had told her to be quiet so that was what she was doing.

I gesture for her to speak.

Mallory straightens her back. She takes a step forward into Jenson's direct line of sight. He growls straight away. But it doesn't stop her.

"I'm confused." She shrugs her shoulders. "I heard you tell Blair that you could use me. That you could gain information from me. Isn't that why you kept me alive. She was all set to kill me and you stopped her. Why?" "Fuck off!" Jenson growls

"Anyone would think you had a soft spot for me. Yet here you are, acting like I'm the world's worst villain."

Chapter 0258

"Bitch!"

"So you were going to play me? Try to convince me to join your little club, is that it?."

"Fuck off you dirty Lycan."

"Now that is something I don't understand." Mallory coils her hands around the bars and stares in at him. "Because at the end of the day, you were still fucking a Lycan. Jess was a Lycan. You know, your actual mate. Did you call her dirty too? Because if I remember correctly, she was bitten, just like me!"

He doesn't answer.

"Gotcha!" Mallory mutters. "Neah's lookalike convinced you we are dirty because we are not pureblooded."

"Shut up you dirty bitch!" Jenson snarls, his bones start to crack and we watch him shift into his Wolf. He paces the small cell, moving closer and closer to the bars. Mallory removes her hands milliseconds before he takes a swipe at them.

She laughs and paces just like him. Moving back and forth in front of his cell at exactly the same pace.

It was making my brother angry. He hated people mimicking him. Something that hadn't changed.

"You've let her poison you, Jenson." I mutter from the chair. "She wants something and she has made you promises that she can't keep and probably won't keep. Women like that don't care about anything but themselves."

I was running out of ideas. This was not how I thought the conversation was going to go.

'He's killing Aspen.' Midnight mutters, pain etched in her voice. 'He's forcing the shift to break Aspen's spirit.'

'What? Is that even possible?'

'It's the final piece of him that keeps him attached to us. If he breaks Aspen, that's it.'

"Jenson, please tell me why?" I try to hide the sadness in my voice, but you only needed to look at me to know I was feeling like I was losing him all over again.

The Wolf moves back and forth, every few seconds, he would slam his body into the bars, hoping that they would bend.

He shifts back to human form, tying his shirt around his waist to cover himself up. Every rib was showing, his collarbone jutted out and the skin looked as though it had been pulled tight and there was no room left. I'm sure if he turned I would see every bit of his spine. He was so fucking skinny and even Mallory takes a step back when she realise how ill he is.

The fitted suit had hidden it well.

"Is she starving you?" I ask in shock. Jenson was like me when it came to food. A bottomless pit.

"Don't be stupid. I love her and you lot will pay for keeping me hostage."

Mallory turns to me. Her brows knitted together and whispers. "I think she had him in some kind of hostage situation."

"Don't be stupid. He wouldn't have marked her."

"Maybe that's when it changed." She gestures for us to go up and out of the dungeon.

"So the first night I went there. He was outside the house. It was him asking me questions about why I was there. Claimed that Blair wasn't home, but her car was there. When I went back the other night. He was watching from a window. She had to call him to help her with me because he wouldn't come out, and even then he seemed a bit surprised by what to do."

She frowns, "For someone that can lead wars, he sure as hell couldn't get a grip on my legs." Her mind was working a lot quicker than mine at putting information together.

""What?"

"Raven, Humans lose their minds for all sorts of reasons. Trust me, I've seen it between my father and anyone he came into contact with and so do Rogues." "He's not a Rogue!" I mutter

"Not him. Her. She called him names, real degrading ones and he jumped to her every demand."

"That's not like him."

"And you have just seen what I have seen, there is no way he has eaten properly in weeks. When she turned up here, Jenson was in the car and to be quite honest, he looked like he was going to shit himself. He didn't want to be here." "That doesn't explain why he is being a dick now." I mutter

"Doesn't it? What if he is aware that she's listening to him?" She shakes her head at me. "There was a moment before.... Before my mate turned up, where I actually thought Jenson was going to let me go. He pulled knives out of my legs that she had pinned me to the chair with. He sent her away to the shower."

"Slow torture. We've seen Neah do it."

"He didn't hurt me again. Raven, and he has called me a lot of names, but 'dirty' is a new thing."

"He's angry. He can be a prick when he is angry and as his sister, I'm sorry"

She waves my apology away. "I think he might be trapped and in way over his head."

Chapter 0259

Dane.

"You see it too, right? I mean you have to. You are our older brother. You are his Alpha." Raven is leaning on my desk, staring at me with her dark eyes while Damien has his hands on her hips, trying to calm her down. "Which one do you think it is? It can't be both. He can't be trapped and trying to kill his Wolf's spirit."

"What if it is both?" Mallory mutters from the chair in the corner. She rises to her feet and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. Her brows are almost knitted together. "Like a weird cry for help. He knows that his Wolf and Raven's Wolf are twins. What if it's his way of asking for help? What if he is doing it in a way that means Blair doesn't know."

"That!" Raven points at Mallory as she glares at me. "That is what I mean."

"Raven...." Damien starts.

"No. I love you Damien, but I am not giving up on him yet. My gut is telling me this is wrong. He is skin and bones. He speaks differently, yet uses familiar terms, he even laughs differently." She pleads with me.

"Jenson chose to mark her."

"It's not like you have never made a mistake, is it? Are you forgetting about all those women that you dragged into contracts before Neah came along?" She snaps, smacking her palm against my desk. "And what about if things changed after that?" I see Damien cock an eyebrow at me.

I lean back in my chair to look at her. She had pleaded with me over the years for all sorts of things. But nothing like right now.

"You're the Alpha." Damien mutters. "Your decision."

My brother had caused so many problems over the years. I had bailed him out on multiple occasions when he had fucked up or gotten himself into trouble. For years I had put up with his excuses, letting them slide over my head until my mate walked into my life. And even now, he is still getting himself into shit situations. He hadn't learned anything.

"He's hurt too many people."

Tears spill down Raven's face. "You promised. You promised that you would look after us. You promised mum and dad."

"Raven, he isn't a kid anymore. He hasn't been a kid for a long time. Sometimes, the decisions we make will live with us for the rest of our lives."

"So what you are saying is that you are giving up?"

I sigh and fold my arms across my chest.

"She's killing him. I don't know what she is doing to him, but she is killing him." She shakes Damien off of her hips and storms out of the room. Damien follows her as she stomps up the stairs which is followed by multiple doors slamming shut. "She loves him." Mallory mutters.

"I know. He is her brother."

"He is more than that." She frowns "I know it's complicated and I know you are probably going to tell me to keep my mouth shut. But even you must see that he should have woken long before you chucked him in the dungeon. Wolves can heal just as quickly as us and those with Alpha blood, even quicker. But he didn't, which is weird in itself."

She blows out her cheeks. "I'm a watcher, Dane. I like watching people. I like learning how people work, how they hide things. It's something that I'm good at, most of the time."

"Most of the time?"

"Yeah, though trying to read Neah is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

I laugh, because it was true.

"Something just isn't adding up."

"You took her mate. That's why she shifted."

She cocks a brow. "I don't think so."

"Damien said you were pushing her."

"She had already shifted long before then. Probably the moment she realised that me and.... That I put Jenson in the car."

I cock a brow at her, she was trying so hard to keep her mates identity a secret. Though I'm pretty sure I know who it is.

"I already know you had help, Mallory. Honestly, I'm not bothered who you are mated too as long as you don't try to kill him." "What if he tries killing me?"

""Has he?"

She scrunches up her face like she has said too much.

"That's how you ended up with the mark on your stomach and not your neck?"

She nods. "He has been ignoring it for a while and just snapped. He attacked and somewhere along the lines, he claimed me."

Chapter 0260

"How do you feel about that?" She wouldn't be the first to be marked against her will.

Mallory shrugs her shoulders. "We are working on it. Anyway, I know I have no place to say this. Can you just hold off from killing Jenson for a little while, just let me puzzle things together first. If I can't come up with anything, then you can do what you want." "You are right, you don't." Truthfully, I didn't want to kill him either. "Forty Eight Hours Mallory."

Forty eight hours." She repeats and turns to the door.

"Say hello to Eric for me."

She spins around wide eyed, staring at me. "I didn't say anything."

"You don't need to, Mallory. He was supposed to be in the party to rescue you. Turns out he had already left the pack. I'm just grateful he wasn't out buying more alcohol."

"I said I wouldn't say anything." She splutters

"And you haven't. Just answer me this, is he still drinking?"

She shakes her head at me.

"Good. Forty eight hours." I mutter and she hurries from the office.

I sigh, spinning my chair until I'm facing the window. How had it come to this with Jenson? My father would be livid if he was here. I felt this overwhelming sense of failure when it came to my brother. Like I had failed him and my parents.

Jenson and Raven had been raised in exactly the same way. When they were children, they had rules to follow, just like everyone else. Where Raven stuck to the rules, he never did. Time and time again he would cause problems. This time, this time he had really fucked up and he might have just cost me my family.

Neah slips into my office. Her scent quickly replaced the others. She's quiet too. Waiting for me or maybe it was because she could feel my anger.

"You were listening?"

"I was sat on the stairs. Damien and Raven are arguing. Mallory has just run out the door, I don't think she even realised I was there." She pauses and even her heartbeat is quiet. "Forty eight hours isn't that long, Dane. You gave me longer." "You were scared shitless. You needed time to adjust when I brought you here and you weren't planning on killing us."

She moves in front of me, blocking my view of the window and sits on my lap. Her arms slipping around my waist as she rests her head against my chest. "You know your brother better than anyone. He has helped you get through wars, helped you build your contracts. Mallory said something isn't adding up. Did he really give you nothing when you were interrogating him?"

"The only thing he made comments on, was me bringing the Lycans here. I can't even force an answer from him because I am no longer his Alpha. I will give Mallory the agreed forty eight hours. Then I will make a final decision."

Her head bobs up and down, "And if Blair turns up?"

"Blair can be killed. To be honest, I'm surprised she hasn't turned up yet. It's already been a couple of days and there have been no reports from the guards."

"What's that saying Raven uses? No news is good news."

"In most cases, yes." I muse, "But when we are waiting for her to show up, it's the furthest thing from good. Where are the boys?"

"Sleeping. If you hadn't noticed," She points to the dark sky, "it's late."

"Will you stay here for me? I need to ask my brother a few more questions."

She nods and slides off my lap, staying in the office as I make my way back to the dungeon.

Jenson is in Wolf form. Laid on his side while his lungs struggle to inflate. It looks like Mallory is right, he is trying to kill his Wolf spirit.

"Look at me." I demand. But he stays completely still.

"Look at me Jenson!"

His body starts to shift to human form. It's slow and painful to watch, like it is using every last bit of energy to make it happen. He lets out a bloodcurdling scream as his back snaps back in position. He stays on the floor. Panting and screaming with each bone break. I had hurt a lot of people. Some of my punishments were beyond cruel, but this was horrendous and it isn't even my doing.

"She's coming." He mutters and passes out.