Ch. 471..475: The Alpha Contract Chapter 471-475

Chapter-0471

Cooper mutters words under his breath in a different language but it doesn't seem to do anything. With one final blow, Samara knocks him out cold. Her Lycan is strong, even after all the time she has spent in the dungeon.

Splatters of blood litter the carpet around Cooper as Samara gets to her feet, almost hitting her head on the ceiling. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. Samara wasn't supposed to attack him, but we could use this to our advantage and take him back to Neah. Slowly, Samara's eyes lighten until they are back to their usual grey tone. "Blair probably still has clothes upstairs." I tell her. She nods at me and hurries out of the room. Her footsteps heavy as they make their way up the stairs.

Looking for the chains Cooper had bound me with, I find some syringes in a drawer. Full with a thick yellow liquid. Without missing a beat, I take one and stab an unconscious Cooper in the neck.

His scent disappears in seconds and my heart finally stops pounding.

"Klaus?" Samara is quiet as she peeks around the kitchen door.

"He's alive. You didn't kill him." I confirm. "And I have drugged him. He won't be able to fight us or Neah now."

She bobs her head. "There's something else." She looks behind her and slowly moves forward until I can see all of her. She wasn't alone. Samara steps to one side. Another woman is standing behind her. Long obsidian hair hangs around her face and probably doesn't finish much before her navel.

She has a very faint scent, like one that is trying to break through. Though it is so weak that it explains why I hadn't even noticed she was in the house. Rope burns mark her wrists and ankles. Her trainers are scuffed and she needed a goos scrub.

"She was tied up, upstairs." Samara tells me. "This is the right thing to do, right?"

"Of course it is. What's your name?" I ask softly

"What's yours?" She asks

"Klaus."

""Eris." She whispers back. "Eris Neoma."

"Funny name." Samara smiles at me.

I nod, hoping that her name didn't actually represent her personality. It literally means chaos, new moon.

"Are you a Wolf?"

"I was." She keeps her voice to a whisper, but turns her face towards Cooper. I still couldn't see her eyes. "He took it from me. And now, I don't know what I am."

She reaches for a knife and my instinct is to grab her wrist. "We are taking him back to the Alpha. You can come with us too." I offer. I was certain Dane would let her in if she needed help.

"The Alpha," she asks from behind her dark hair. "Does he shift to look like her?" She points at Samara.

"One of them does." I tell her. Sometimes I forget there are still people in the world that don't know of Lycan's existence, even when there are probably more of them than us. They had been living in plain sight for so many years. "I don't want to go."

"We have a couple of other people like you. Ones that had their abilities taken away. They are Lycans though, like her." I gesture to Samara.

"Lycans." The word rolls off of her tongue.

"Yes."

"Did he take their abilities?" She nods at Cooper and as she brings her face back up, her hair falls to one side, allowing me to see her golden eyes. "Yes."

"But they haven't got their abilities back?"

"No."

"A little scent?" she frowns

"They smell like Humans. Did he drug you?"

"No. He muttered something over me." A brow crinkles into a small frown "What is your Alpha going to do with him?" She stares me down.

"Skin him alive." Samara blurts out. I glance over to her, her eyes are wide and her lips are curved up into a smile. Somehow, it seems like she felt a little more free. Maybe hearing the truth from Cooper cleared her confusion. "You won't do that. I heard him. He called you his sister." Eris mutters.

"I just helped you, you don't need to be a bitch!" Samara snaps back.

"I'm not trying to be." Her golden eyes flash to me. "Would I be safe?" "Safer than being here."

She shakes her head. "Hmm, I think it's better if I'm on my own."

"Where's your pack?"

She screws her face up. "I was running from them when he convinced me that he was my mate."

 

Chapter 0472

Klaus

"Why?" Samara asks Eris

"It's a long story. I would rather not get into it."

Cooper moans from the ground and my eyes move to him. "There must have been a reason. How did he find you?"

"Can we not." She turns away. "I get it, you are curious. I would be too if I had just stumbled on someone that was tied up. But I don't need anyone else involved in my shit. Just tell me that he is going to be dealt with and I will be on my merry way." "If you are running from someone, they will find you in the end."

Her golden eyes lock on mine. "Then maybe, I will just become a ghost."

I should just let her go. She had made it clear that it was what she wanted. But she was right. I was curious. Why did Cooper have her here?

He groans again and his eyes flicker open. The realisation on his face brings a smile to mine. A taste of his own medicine would be just the beginning.

"What have you done to me?" He demands as he pushes himself up.

"I thought you would appreciate the irony of being injected by your own potion."

Samara laughs and his eyes settle on her. "You stupid bitch. Just you wait. I will make you pay for this."

Samara squats down in front of him. "I've believed you every other time that you have said that. I don't this time. This is it for you Cooper."

He turns to Eris. "Eris, let me go."

"And why would I do that? You've kept me here against my will. You made me believe a lie."

"That's what he does." Samara adds. She stands and turns around to Eris. "You are not the first to believe that you are mated to him. It's what he does to lure you in. He prays on people that he thinks needs correcting."

"I figured that out from all the shouting." Eris mutters. "I just don't understand why you haven't killed him yet. You look like some kind of mutant monster. Pretty sure you could kill everything in your path."

"Klaus told you." Samara murmurs. "The Alpha wants him."

"Come on, Sam. You are not really going to take me to them, are you?" Cooper shuffles himself to the wall and leans back against it. His eyes are searching the room, looking for the best exit, but he was the one who had made it to be one entrance and exit. "He doesn't stop, does he?" Eris mutters

"Because he likes to have control and he knows he has lost it."

"Klaus," Cooper whispers my name. "You won't do this to me. I mean too much to you."

"What is he talking about?" Eris demands

"He thinks we are mates."

She cocks an eyebrow at me, "Are you?"

"It wasn't too long ago that he was holding me prisoner here. He drugged me and tried to mark me, yet kept me in chains."

She turns back to Cooper, "Bit kinky? All I got was thick ropes."

Samara looks away as she stifles a laugh.

"You don't seem bothered that you were tied up." I frown

"I should be, shouldn't I? But he fed me, and I had a decent bed to lie on. And because of the lack of scent, it meant my pack wasn't able to find me. Silver lining." She shrugs her shoulders. "But it doesn't mean I'm happy with what he did to me. Or by the sounds of it, what he has done to others. That is just fucked up."

She wanders off to the kitchen and roots around in the cupboards.

"Do we just go?" Samara asks in a whisper. "What do we do with her?"

"She doesn't want to come, I can't make her. She doesn't want any help. And we have him to deal with."

"Okay."

"You won't win." Cooper smirks at us. "Do you think it just ends with me?"

"Yes." I pull him to his feet and he tries to push me. But that strength I had felt when he slapped me, was long gone.

 

Chapter 0473

"We're leaving." I call out to Eris.

Her head pops around the door with a spoon in her mouth. She steps into the room with a jar of jam in one hand as she carefully scoops out another spoonful.

"Oh, you are actually going through with it?" She licks the spoon clean. "I just thought because of how long you were taking, you weren't actually going to go through with it." She puts the jar on the side and licks her lips, smacking them together. "Wait, can someone at least tell me where I am? He took me in the middle of the night and I haven't got a clue."

"Few miles from Black Shadow."

"Wait, that's it? That's as far as I've made it." She turns to a smiling Cooper. "You absolute prick."

"What is it?" I ask

"I'm from Nightfall."

"Nightfall, where is that?"

She casts a glance at Cooper. "It used to be called Ashburn city, but the new Alpha renamed it."

"Alpha Ryan renamed the pack?"

"Alpha Ryan has been dead for a long time. The new Alpha is Alpha Silas. He slaughtered the Alpha and took his place, moved his men in."

"He wasn't someone already in the pack?"

She shakes her head. "He was an outsider."

I turn to Cooper, "And you didn't think he was worth punishing?"

He just smiles at me. I might have to ask Neah to remove his lips first so he can't do that anymore.

"He wants to rule the Wolves." Eris tells us

"Well, he took the pack."

"No, you don't understand. All Wolves around the world. He thinks they should fall under him."

"Why?"

She shrugs her shoulders at me. "The same as anything I guess. There are some people in the world who are just so power driven that nothing else matters. The problem is, there are a lot that agree." "Get what you want, mate?" Cooper asks

"You are not my mate." I tell him for the hundredth time. "What did you do, Eris?"

"Well, I sort of made a promise that I never planned on keeping."

"What kind of promise?" Samara asks, she was so invested in what Eris was saying, excited by the gossip

"Honestly, it's not that bad. He just...it didn't exactly go down well and if he gets his hands on me, he will, without a doubt, kill me."

"It must be bad." Samara scoffs

"You are all so dramatic." She throws her hands up and walks over to the sofa. Puffing out air as she sits. "I aborted the Alpha's pup. I had a one nighter with him, before I even knew who he was. The contraception I was taking clearly failed and then he attacked. It wasn't just Alpha Ryan that died, so many others did too. He spared me only because he recognised me from our night together and I knew right then, I couldn't keep it."

"I spent days in the mansion with him. He made all these promises to me and asked me to make them back to him, then he slaughtered my best friend. So I did what I had to do. I found a Human hospital because I couldn't go to our doctor, because it would be a sin and I probably would have been killed that day. So when I could, I slipped out. I had a decent gain until he found me."

"And that's why you took away her abilities?" I snap at Cooper.

"I have my reasons."

"You should tell your Alpha about Alpha Silas. If you live nearby, you will become a victim. I guarantee it." Eris tells us

I keep my mouth shut, she didn't need to know how many Wolves and Lycans there are in the pack.

"Come with me." I offer again. "You can tell them yourself."

"Why? You don't know anything about me!"

"We have someone that will be able to tell if you are lying."

""I don't understand."

"If you are telling the truth, you have nothing to worry about."

Chapter 0474

Neah

"Why haven't we heard anything?" I ask Damien. The sun would be rising soon and we had heard nothing. Neither Klaus nor Samara had linked us.

I look back over my shoulder. We were about a mile out from home and Dane must be still asleep otherwise he would be in my head, questioning my location.

"A little while longer." Damien mutters. "Unless you can get in his head."

"Tried." I sigh. "It's like it always is, non existent. I just... I want him dead. I have this need to end him."

"There is still time. Klaus knows what to do."

"How are you so sure everything is going to work out?"

"I have a hunch. Maybe you need to talk about something else."

I nod, "Did you know Dane was a twin?"

"No I did not." He furrows his brow. "What happened to them?"

"Stillborn. Klaus told me." I probably shouldn't be talking about it until I had spoken to Dane, but Damien was right, I needed something to occupy my mind and Nyx was not being helpful in any shape or form. "And you are worried?" He asks

"Well, everyone keeps going on like I'm automatically carrying more than one. What if it is more and that happens?"

"The boys are healthy." He tells me through a yawn.

"This doesn't stop." I point to my head

"It's good that you are concerned. I would be worried if you weren't." He smiles at me. "You will find out soon enough and then if you are worried, you just have Klaus do more scans." "Klaus is leaving."

"Since when?"

"He told me he was leaving after we have killed Cooper. He wants to find his place. I don't want him to leave, but I understand." I sigh.

"We all want to find our place in the world, Neah and it's not the same for everyone."

We stand in silence, hidden by the trees as the sun rises. "We should go after them." I mutter

"No, we don't need to." He points up the road. Klaus is pushing Cooper forward. He stumbles about, trying to keep himself upright. Samara is talking to someone too, another female. "Who is that?" I ask quietly

"I have no idea. Definitely a Wolf, but her scent is weak."

"She's not from this pack." I mutter

"No, she isn't." He confirms and keeps his dark eyes on the road ahead, watching them gradually come towards us.

Three times Klaus has to pull Cooper up off the ground. By the looks of it, Cooper was purposely falling over, looking for a way to escape.

Damien stands slightly in front of me. It was his standard reaction when he felt a threat.

"Who are you?" He demands, his eyes settling on the long haired woman.

Her golden eyes are wide. Maybe she wasn't expecting such an abrupt greeting. It's how Klaus and Damien differed.

"Her name is Eris." Klaus answers for her. "Cooper was holding her hostage and has taken away her abilities."

"Not all, because she still has a little bit of a scent." Damien glares at her.

"He didn't do it in the same way as he did the others." Klaus tells us

""A spell." Eris adds

"And you brought her here?" Damien asks

"We are not inside Black Shadow yet." Klaus replies. His deep green eyes settle on me. "Are you or Dane aware that Ashburn city has changed their name to Nightfall?" "No."

"It was a forced name change." Eris adds. "It wasn't our Alpha. It's what the new guy does. He takes over."

"So you thought we would take her in?" I ask with a frown. I didn't want any part of it.

Klaus doesn't answer me

"It's fine." Eris tells us. "I understand." Her gaze shifts to Klaus who is holding Cooper steady. "I told you this was a mistake. I'm better off alone. I can figure it out."

Chapter 0475

Cooper grins and the grin irritates me so much. I step around Damien, squaring up to the half Witch. Our size difference was obvious as he stared down at me. If his hands were not being held back by Klaus, then I would probably be too close. "What are you smiling at Cooper?" I push the tip of a claw into his stomach just below his belly button. The smile disappears and I see the flash of pain in his eyes.

"I injected him with the same thing he injected everyone else with." Klaus tells me. "He can't project. He can't heal. He can't do anything."

"Is that right?" I push the single claw a little deeper. Cooper presses his lips together and tries to breathe deeply. The pain must be excruciating, but he hid it well. "Tell me Cooper. Why do you think you have the right to do this to so many people?"

His lips move a tiny little bit, just enough for me to hear the word 'punishment'.

"Then what should your punishment be?" I retract the claw and he hunches forward, muttering under his breath.

I hear Eris whispering to Samara, "She can control her shift?"

"Yes."

"Holy shit!"

Damien snaps his head up to her, but doesn't say anything.

"I've already been punished." Cooper mutters to me

""For what?"

"Doing the Moon Goddesses job." He growls at me

I see Samara shake her head and roll her eyes.

I stab another claw into him and he hisses at me. "I can do this all day."

"Fucking kill me then you whore."

Why did they always resort to calling women whores?

Cooper stumbles sideways as Damien right hooks him, cracking his jaw. My claw slices through his stomach like butter. He falls to the ground as Klaus lets go of him. Pressing his hands into the ground. Cooper forces himself upwards, blood soaking through his already stained tee. "Remember, Neah, there is always someone worse." "Who are you talking about?"

He grins at me again, blood coating his perfect white teeth

My eyes move to the women standing behind him. Samara has her eyes locked on us while Eris has a hand over hers.

Cooper spits a mouthful of blood at me, laughing when it lands on my cheek. "I should have come after you, though you were never my target. The precious last female Alpha. You would have made an excellent trophy. Such pretty blue eyes. It's a shame you are female." He presses his hands against his wounds and drops back to his knees. Continuing to call me different slurs. Klaus grabs Cooper's head. His hands firmly gripped either side and he twists until we hear his neck snap.

Klaus lets go and for a moment, Cooper's body is perfectly still. Stepping back, a breeze catches him and makes his body fall the small distance to the ground.

Samara gasps as Klaus stares at me. "It was always supposed to be me, Neah and I couldn't listen to him talk to you like that anymore."

I nod at him, mostly because I'm speechless. I never thought Klaus would actually go through with it, but he showed his true loyalty.

"Okay, I thought Alpha Silas was a mad man, but I think you lot may have just beaten him in that department." Eris splutters.

Samara comes forward and leans over her brother. "You finally got what you deserved, Coop. I told you years ago, you would mess with the wrong person." Her grey eyes move to mine. "Thank you."

"So now what?" Eris asks. "We just stand here over......." She sniffs the air. "I can smell you. She turns to face Damien, pointing a finger at him. "And I can smell you."