Ch. 381..385: The Alpha Contract Chapter 381-385

Chapter 0381

Neah

meant it.

It was weird to hear her pleading with me. I had heard it a little bit at her house. Yet now she is full of desperation, a million miles away from how she introduced herself to me. Maybe because she's surprised to learn the truth about her friend. Maybe because she genuinely 'We could just kill her.' Nyx grins gleefully. 'She keeps asking. And she was prepared to destroy our life. It only seems fair.'

Blair drops her gaze when I don't answer her question. "I get it, you're torturing me. Never letting me know when the final blow is going to come so I live in fear, waiting." She rocks in her chair. "It's a weird feeling, fear."

"You get used to it." I mutter back. It was a lie, you never get used to it.

She mulls over my words, "Jenson told me everything that happened to you, before Dane"

"I told you too, well some of it, but it didn't change anything, did it?! Even when you learned how bad things were for me, it didn't change how you felt. It didn't change what you thought I deserved or what you deserved. Only now, when you have lost your identity, you claim to have changed." She knew everything and yet she had still been prepared to ruin my life when she barely knew me. A half sister and she didn't even bother wanting to get to know me. Her eyes flick up to me. "You are the Alpha."

Nyx snorts, 'How can she be acting like she didn't know? That was her goal.'

"I.." She pauses for several heartbeats. "It's a bitter pill to swallow. But what I have learned is that I am not the person I once was. Everything hurts. Everything is different. I'm not who I was and I know you don't believe that." "You're right, I don't."

She sighs. "Maybe this was always the plan for me. You know, payback for the trouble I have caused and inflicted. Maybe this is punishment for Jenson. For you, for everything." She laughs to herself and shakes her head. "There is always someone worse." They had both said that. Blair and Samara. "Who has said that to you?"

"Cooper." She mutters. "The night he took me, maybe after. I think he was making a point, because he had outsmarted me. Though it seems it's not hard to do that anymore." Her brows knit together. "You can link him, right?"

I stare back at her, trying to decide if it's worth telling her what I know.

"Because he is a Lycan?" She continues. "You can link all Lycans. I heard it when you asked everyone to come here. So you must be able to link him and Samara if she is really a Lycan." 'Don't tell her, she doesn't need to know.' Nyx murmurs

"Unless you can't." Blair mutters, "But that would be impossible. I can hear you, I know Damien can and Mallory must have linked you. My mother and step father heard your request."

"I had a connection to Cooper. I check everyone when they arrive here." I tell her and Nyx groans. "But the connection seems to have evaporated. There isn't one for Samara either. Brax thinks they are working with a Witch. A powerful one that is able to sever the connection to me."

"Witches won't work with Lycan's. They will work with Wolves but not Lycans." Blair tells me. "Look, I may not be of use in the physical sense, not anymore, but I still have a lot of knowledge about Lycans. Knowledge that you might now have." ""A Witch worked with our father." I mutter

"Don't...." She starts as her eyes hover on mine. A small crinkle appears on her forehead. "You were bound as a child."

"Which could only be done by the help of a strong Witch because I already had my Lycan. Think about it, Blair. Cooper has the ability to take people's Wolves and Lycans away. He has been able to give Wolves something to completely hide their scent. Samara was able to conceal her identity."

'Tread carefully.' Nyx warns.

'I am.'

"I never saw any Witches in the prison. At least I don't think so. I wouldn't be able to tell even if there were." She shrugs her shoulders at me. "But there were women, 'nurses' Cooper called them. They weren't. They would bring food, water, change the drip bags and escort you to the showers. They never spoke and they always looked as if they were in some kind of trance. On autopilot."

Chapter 0382

"Wolves and Lycans?"

"I don't know. I can't tell anymore. They could be like me for all I know. People he has punished."

She was cooperating a little too well. She could be telling the truth or she could be buying time. What if Cooper had given her something as well so that she could mask her identity?

'Damien.' I link him. I knew he wasn't far away. 'Come and take her to the dungeons and bring me Samara.'

Damien appears and doesn't say anything. He unbinds Blair from the chair but quickly ties her hands back together.

"Where are we going? Where are you taking me?" She demands

"For a walk."

"Are you going to kill me?"

"I guess you will find out." He winks at me as he forces her from the office.

I blow out my cheeks when I'm alone. It doesn't get easier. The desire to kill her on the spot is so tempting. To cut her open and watch her intestines fall out is a picture I can't get out of my head. 'Well?' I mutter to Nyx while we wait.

'I am as unsure as you are. She is sharing, but it could be intentional. We should have kept Brax here.'

'Brax has probably gone to see Maddie.'

"Please don't...please...I've done nothing wrong." Samara's voice scratches at my ear drums as Damien tells her to be quiet.

""Just move." Damien snaps.

"I've done nothing. Why does know one believe me? I told Neah what I know. This is cruel."

He pushes the office door open and her mouth closes the moment she sees me. Her hands are bound just like Blair's, though she looked a little rougher, maybe she had been tossed around a bit.

He tries to put her in the chair but she fights back against him. Damien laughs, pressing both hands on her shoulders and forcing her down. One by one, he binds her wrists to the chair as she growls at him. Her scent was definitely making a comeback and still, there is no connection to her.

Her grey eyes lock on mine. "Why are you doing this? We haven't done anything."

"No?"

"We came here to tell you about Cooper so why are you treating us like this?"

Was she unaware that we could scent her? She had to be or she wouldn't keep up this act.

Damien rolls his eyes at her.

"What did you hope to achieve by telling me about him?"

"That you would do something about him. He can't be allowed to get away with it. We don't deserve this. We don't deserve to lose our Lycans!"

Nyx laughs, 'She really has no clue we can scent her, does she!'

'Maybe not, but if we can scent her, there is a good chance she can shift.' I reply. 'Those ropes won't keep her in that chair.'

"Blair showed you where our pack was?"

"Yes. She told me you are her half sister. I couldn't believe my luck that you are the Alpha. I've been trying to find ways to bring Cooper down for years."

"It does sound like you are lucky." The intensity of my need to kill was growing by the second.

"You were hidden for so long." She mutters, avoiding eye contact.

"I wasn't hiding."

"I didn't mean it like that." She shakes her head, trying to get the blonde strand to move off of her face. "I mean you were hidden away for so long and then this happened to me and then I had no way of finding you, not until Blair." "And it just so happened that Blair is my half sister." Hearing myself call Blair my half sister out loud made my insides crawl

"Right! Pure luck." She smiles

"Not a setup at all."

I watch the colour drain from her skin. "I don't know what you are talking about. How can it be a setup? Why would I give up losing my Lycan?"

'She keeps playing the same tune.' Nyx growls

Damien watches me from behind Samara. Maybe he knew I was seconds away from ripping out her heart. But maybe, just maybe, we could use her to lure out Cooper.

 

Chapter 0383

Abraxas

Madison is asleep when I get to the hospital. She had been in and out of sleep for the last couple of days, well, mostly asleep. Klaus insisted she just needed longer to heal and it was her body's way of making it happen. It just feels unnatural, having to wait this long for someone to heal.

The others had it handled with Blair and Samara, if they needed me, they would know where to find me.

I sit by Madison's head. Her face is scrunched up like she is in some sort of pain. Her knees are tucked up to her chest and she lets out tiny whimpers as her fingers twitch at the pillows. She wasn't in pain though, every time she slept, she relived what happened. I had managed to get bits of information in the short slots of time she was awake. Cooper had taken her. He had guided her towards the edge of the pack forest. Then pinned her down and thankfully she put up a fight. She might not have done so a few months ago. He still managed to inject her with something. She had told me her body became heavy and felt like she was losing control. He took her to a building and beat her until she was black and blue. Those bruises, still evident on her body. She didn't remember everything. She said it was fuzzy but he did tell her it was all because he saw her with me. He told her that she was broken. That a Lycan shouldn't be with a Hunter and that he was going to fix her. That she was being punished for her actions.

He had chosen her, not me and that makes me think he's far weaker than he makes out.

He wasn't wrong about our kind being together, but to do this to her, it was disgusting. I shake my head, I was already planning to skin him alive. Slowly and with a very blunt tool.

Klaus comes into the room with a new IV bag and I push all the dark thoughts from my head. There was plenty of time to daydream.

"Still asleep?" He asks. There was definitely no way he would make it as a Hunter.

I gesture to her, because it was pretty obvious.

"It's a good sign. It means her brain is giving her body the best chance." He changes over the bag of fluids. "She just needs time."

"She will never be the same, will she." I state

"Are you mad at her?"

I shake my head. I couldn't be mad at her. Though this should never have happened.

Madison moans and stretches out. Her chestnut eyes peek out from under her lids, until everything falls into focus. She stares at me, her chestnut eyes full of sadness and pain. Her fingers move to her face, just like they did everytime she woke. Feeling for the stitches and making sure it wasn't just a dream.

She winces as she touches them and her eyes become watery. "I made it?"

"Yes." She asked the same thing each time she woke too. Looking for confirmation she was safe. It had become her little routine.

Reaching for my hand, her fingers curl tightly around mine and she tugs me towards the bed, just like yesterday.

"I will leave you to it." Klaus takes the empty bag with him as I settle on the bed next to Madison.

She buries herself into my chest, snuggling in as far as she could. Within minutes she is asleep again. Her chest rises and falls against mine in a continuous rhythm. Her lips part as her body relaxes, but her fingers remain in place, clinging to me and preventing me from leaving.

I sniff her hair, hoping for some sign of her jasmine scent but there is still nothing. She smells just like any other Human.

 

Chapter 0384

become a Lycan's safe person.

I stay for a few hours, just watching her breathe. Every now and again she would do like a double breath and a tear would leak from her right eye. It was always her right. I wiped away each and every one as I tried to figure out what I wanted to do. I had unexpectedly If my parents were alive, they would be roasting me.

Dane knocks on the door and Madison stirs a little but doesn't wake. "How is she doing?"

"Her soul has more cracks than yesterday," I mutter. "She already had some issues that she was working through."

"You told me that if they connect, it will tear her apart. Is that close to happening?"

"If more keep appearing." I comb my fingers through her red waves. "And I don't know if there is a way to reverse the shit this prick has pulled."

He frowns. "I need you to do me a favour."

"Another one." I cock my brow at him, "I feel like I have done more than enough for you."

"Samara is being taken to Neah." He tells me

""And you're here?"

"She doesn't want me there."

"And what's that got to do with me?" Madison presses herself into me and I squeeze her a little tighter.

"Blair is in the dungeons."

"You want me to kill her? I will be more than happy too, I've been waiting for this for a long time."

"No." He pauses. "Out of curiosity, why haven't you just killed her?"

"Neah asked me not to."

"Thought you didn't listen to Lycans."

"Normally, I wouldn't, but she has her reasons and oddly, I respect them. She isn't like any other Lycan. She sees more than most. She listens. She doesn't piss me off." I give him a sarcastic grin.

"What do you mean 'she sees more than most?"

I shrug my shoulders. "There's no real explanation for it. Maybe it has something to do with the way she was brought up. Maybe she feels more settled now she knows who and what she is. I don't know, but she isn't a prick and I don't feel the need to jam a bullet into her head like I do with others." He smiles at me. "Or maybe, you just realise that not all Lycans are assholes."

I roll my eyes at him.

"Anyway, I was hoping you would come down to the dungeons with me. I want to ask her some questions and I want to make sure I don't miss something useful."

Madison was probably going to be asleep for a while if the last couple of days were anything to go by. She doesn't stir as I pull my arm from under her. In fact she appears to be in the deepest sleep ever.

I follow Dane across the grounds to the dungeons. Blair is sitting in the corner of one cell, her hands bound together. Her legs folded up in front of her. She looked broken. It brought a small piece of happiness to my cold heart.

"This is it, isn't it." Her brown eyes flicker up to mine. I still found it uncanny how much they looked alike, though the brown eyes and the shock of short black hair made them noticeably different.

"You must be shitting yourself, waiting for death." I mutter

She squeezes her eyes shut. "I'm ready."

"He's not going to kill you." Dane tells her

"Yet." I add with a smile, though she doesn't see it with her eyes screwed tightly shut.

I watch her gulp, her fear is more than evident by the way her body is trembling. She was actually fearing for her life. Interesting.

 

Chapter 0385

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