Ch. 486..490: The Alpha Contract Chapter 486-490

Chapter 0486

Neah

"Are you sure there is nothing I can get you?" Dane asks softly as he sticks his head around the bathroom door.

I glare at him as my stomach churns and he silently retreats. Apparently I can watch someone have their foot hacked off, I can take part in skinning them alive and rip out their heart without a single desire to throw up and yet the smell of chicken has me rejecting the tiniest amount of food I had managed to eat.

"Dane, you are the Alpha, but you are not a woman. Let me go in." Mallory mutters.

"Just tell her I'm going to speak to Damien." He replies as Mallory scoots in around the door.

"Shit, you look horrendous." she muses

Apart from the sweat, I was still covered in Cooper's blood. Dane had picked me up off the chair and Mallory had come in with a freshly cooked chicken and since then, I had been in the bathroom, practically hugging the toilet. My throat burned, my stomach hurt and yet I was so damn hungry.

"I remembered these helped you last time." She hands me a packet of ginger biscuits. "Not sure if they will this time, but it's worth a try."

I take one from the pack and nibble on it and it seems to do the trick, for now. "This is worse than last time." I mutter as she sits on the floor next to me

"I'm sure it will get better."

"I'm sorry. This is probably the last thing you want to deal with."

"Don't be silly and I have Luca now. But maybe it is time for you to get checked out. Just to make sure everything is good."

"It will be too early to see anything. Raven told me that the first time round."

"But didn't she find something?"

"Fine, let me at least shower first."

"I will be right outside if you need me." She gets to her feet first and offers me a hand.

As she closes the door, I turn the shower on and strip out of the shirt. The hot water is refreshing as it hits my skin. For a moment I watch the streaks of red disappear down the drain, washing away the last of that asshole.

'Neah, something is wrong.' Nyx murmurs as I feel the pounding beat of my heart against my rib cage.

'With the baby?' I didn't want to end up on bed rest again. Especially not this early.

'No. Us. Call for Mallory.'

I turn the water off and struggle to wrap a towel around me as my hands shake. "Mallory." She comes into the bathroom as black spots appear before my eyes. I reach out to the wall to steady myself, but it's further away than I thought and I start going down. "Hey, hey! I've got you!" she stops my head hitting the floor as the pounding of my heart echoes in my head. I hear her call for Eric and then nothing.

***

Steady beeps make me wince. It was a sound I knew like the back of my hand. I was in the pack hospital.

As my fingers twitch, I feel Danes hand tighten around mine. I didn't need to see to know that it was him. Light sparks ignite my skin as his thumb moves in soft cicrles across my knuckles "Neah?" he whispers as I struggle to open my eyes. The lights are bright and I slam my eyelids shut. "Neah, you are okay."

"What happened?" I murmur, squinting at him.

'You didn't eat.' Nyx murmurs

"Your blood sugar was dangerously low. You passed out."

"That's what you get for not letting me eat." I mutter with half a smile. It had happened all the time when Trey and the others had starved me. "Why didn't I just heal?"

"Because even Wolves and Lycans suffer from it. Why do you think we are always eating? Especially after we have shifted. Besides, with the babies on board, you need to be eating more.

"Baby." I mumble. Until it was confirmed otherwise, it is just the one that I am carrying. "And how am I supposed to eat if I'm throwing up?"

"Babies, and Klaus has suggested those milkshakes that you like if it means getting food in you. For now, you have that." he points to the bag that is connected by a tube to my arm, drip feeding a liquid into me.

I prop myself up on my elbows and wince as I knock the tube in my arm. "He scanned me, didn't he?"

"Yes."

"One?"

He shakes his head with a smile

"Twins?" Please, no more than two.

"Yes." He leans forward and presses his lips to my cheek. "Told you."

"I thought it was too early."

 

Chapter 0487

He shakes his head at me, "There is something else."

"Don't you dare say bed rest!"

"Klaus wants you to take it easy, just until you are consistently okay."

I feel Nyx's annoyance. She hated bed rest as much as I do. "Does he remember that we have two little boys, one of which can shift and escape his cot on a regular basis."

"I think he probably means no shifting. It takes a lot of energy."

"I guess I can do that. Have you spoken to Damien about the other thing?"

"No, I had only just made it to his when Eric linked me to say you had collapsed."

"I believe I heard my name." Damien raps on the door. His dark eyes settle on me. "You good?"

"I'm fine, just everyone else being dramatic." He raises an eyebrow at me as he smirks, but doesn't say anything.

"Could you close the door." Dane tells him. "There is something I need to discuss with you."

Damien slowly closes the door. "Is this something to do with Eris, because that girl is nuts."

"Have you rejected her?" I ask

"No. To be honest she came in for an attack which surprised me. Then Dottie was dropped off so I didn't get a chance."

"Where is Dorothy?"

"Samara is keeping an eye on her."

"You left her with Samara?" Dane asks, surprised

"Dottie likes her and Samara isn't that bad once you get to know her. She is trying to make sense of a lot of things and until Blair, it seems like she was on her own for a while, well partly with Cooper, but we all know he didn't tell her everything." "Brax will hit the roof." Dane smirks

"I don't really care what he thinks." Damien mutters. "So do you need to talk to me about Eris?"

"You heard her mention Alpha Silas?" Dane asks

"Yes" He rolls his eyes. "She had a bit of a tantrum, said something about your eyes, Klaus and a trap. To be honest, she was just having a massive rant about everything. But one thing she said that I can agree on, she shouldn't have come here." He shakes his head and seems appalled by her. And I don't think she is going to be able to change that.

"So who is Alpha Silas?" He asks

"If it is the same Silas. It is my twin."

Damien's eyes move to me and then back to Dane. "The twin that was stillborn?" "Yes."

He takes the empty chair by the door. As Dane tells him the same thing he told me.

"Are we sure it's the same man?"

"Your mate freaked out when she saw Dane's eyes. Kept saying it was a trap. That Klaus had brought her here. She said she would never have come if she had known Dane's eyes were red." I tell him

"Please, don't call her that. I had a mate and Eris isn't her." He shakes his head.

"Is she running from him?" Dane asks

"I'm not entirely sure. Samara told me that she had found Eris tied up. Eris told them that this Alpha Silas took over the pack she was in, killed the Alpha, renamed the pack and moved his Wolves in. Maybe he had issues with Alpha Ryan? Who knows at this point! But what I do know is she is..." he holds his hands up like he wants to wring her neck.

"Irritating?" I offer

"Beyond irritating. I don't think I have ever met someone as annoying as her and that includes Brax. Which speaks for itself."

I had to hold in my laugh, Eris had really gotten under his skin and it takes a lot to be able to do that to Damien.

"Back to this Silas. Do you want to do anything?" Damien asks Dane. "Does he know who you are?"

"I don't know."

"Can you sense him?" I knew my boys could sense each other and I knew Raven and Jenson had been able to.

He shakes his head at me. "I don't know if it's because we were separated at birth or what." He scratches the stubble on his jaw. "He could be a risk, or Eris could be making everything seem ten times worse than what it is. He might not know me or want anything to do with me and yet he could be forced to come here because we have Eris here."

"Where is she?" I ask, "I will talk to her."

"She stormed off after I told her that I was finding it impossible to see the positives of being mated to her." Damien mutters.

"She wouldn't have gotten very far. Everyone is keeping an eye on her."

 

Chapter 0488

Brax

"Hey, you!" A woman with hair darker than night comes running towards me. I stop in my tracks, sighing. I was supposed to be having dinner with Maddie.

"Yes?" She was the stray that had come back with the others. Full of so many lies.

"Can you help me?"

"That depends." I mutter

"On what?" She cocks a brow at me

"What is it that you want?"

"Can you help me get out of here?" She pleads

"Yes."

She stares at me for a moment. "Will you help me get out of here?"

"No."

She's taken aback by my refusal. "Why?"

"Dane has questions and I believe Neah does too."

"So I'm not allowed to leave?" she scoffs as she narrows her golden eyes. I didn't answer, it was pretty obvious.

"This place is fucked up." She mutters

"Not as fucked up as you running away from your problems." I smile and she glares at me

"Have you spoken to Klaus or that bitch that's at my mates house?"

"No."

"Then how did you know.... Do you see things like that kid?"

"I assume you are talking about Dorothy. Dorothy is my daughter."

She takes a step back as her eyes remain on me. "Two Dads. You are the other Dad."

"That's how she likes it, yes. I take it that you don't like him having someone that calls him Daddy? I kind of agree, but my daughter is happy. She's with him now?"

"When I left, yes. That bitch was there too."

"Calling someone a bitch doesn't mean I know who you are speaking of." I mutter

"Samara."

"Excuse me?"

She shakes her head, lowering her gaze. Unaware of my anger.

"I went there to talk with him and Samara was already there." Her face screws up, "Parading around in his clothes. I could smell her scent on him, but he denies it. He is supposed to be my mate. Mine!"

"One, if he had slept with her after knowing you're his mate, you would likely be dead. Two, the clothes could be because she was a prisoner that had nothing else and she did have a hand in killing her brother. Three Damien isn't like that." "Like what?"

"Not someone who jumps into bed with everyone. And I can see that you have already taken the time to get to know him." I mutter sarcastically

I stretch and her eyes catch a glimpse of the gun in my belt. "Why do you have that?"

"Just in case I need to put someone down. Or maybe," I move quickly, pulling it from my belt and pressing it against her temple, "I use it as a warning to liars."

She freezes. "What are you doing?" Her eyes move to the side, focussing on the gun. "Please don't kill me."

"Why are you running from this pack of yours?"

"It's dangerous."

""Bullshit."

"I swear."

"What story did you tell Klaus?"

"The truth."

"You lie."

I watch the gulp as a lump forms in her throat. It happened to everyone I had held a gun to apart from Maddie. She had been ready to die.

"It's the truth." The woman splutters

"No it isn't, it's a story you have cooked up. One that you think will pull on the heart strings of others and you sucked Klaus in. I see it, you are full of lies, weaving your own web of shit. What did you tell him? It must have been something good to make him feel sorry for you."

"I swear."

"You keep doing that, but you are not actually telling me what you said to him."

"Daddy?" I turn around to see Dorothy holding Samara's hand. Samara's grey eyes shift between me and Eris and the gun.

"I can tell you what Eris told us." Samara tells me

"Bitch, you better keep your mouth shut." Eris yells at her

I push the gun harder against her temple. "Now now, that is not your choice."

"I don't want anyone else to know."

"Then you shouldn't have told them. Or is it because if other people know your lie, you will find it harder to cover it up?" I smile at her. "Dorothy, cover your ears. I don't want you to hear this. What did she say, Samara? And please don't leave out any details."

I listen to how this Eris allegedly had an abortion because of an Alpha. That he found out and she had been running from him until she met Cooper. Samara tells me other things about how Eris was tied up. How Eris told them she didn't want to come, but that was before she told them the lie. How she was from Ashburn city, but they had recently changed their name.

Chapter 0489

Klaus would fall for something like that. I didn't blame him, if it had been the truth, I would have helped too.

"So Cooper just happened to find you?" I ask

"Yes." Eris mutters. "He made me believe we were mates. But i know that was a lie."

"Where did he find you?"

"Running through a forest. I had to get away. I had too..."

"But you knew nothing of Lycans?" Ashburn city knew about Lycans. Blair had already informed me of that because it was where they killed Damien's brother "What's that got to do with anything?" She frowns

"My curiousity."

She shakes her head at me. "Not until he told me. Everyone smells the same. And then he took everything from me. He locked me up, injected me with something." "No." Samara scowls. I glance at Samara who is shaking her head. "No, you said he muttered a spell over you."

"He did after he injected me with something."

"But Klaus asked you if you had been drugged and you said no." Samara presses

"I thought you meant like pills or something." Eris mutters

"Samara," as much as I hated what I was about to ask, I needed Dorothy not to see what was about to happen. "Can you take Dorothy back to the house with you?"

I keep the gun pressed to Eris's temple as Samara leads Dorothy away. "You don't need to do this!" Eris whispers.

"I wouldn't normally, but I'm giving you one last opportunity to tell the truth."

"Brax." Dane mutters from behind me. "Put the gun down. Neah wants to speak to Eris."

"She's lying."

"That may be so, but Neah still wishes to talk to her. And I know you respect Neahs requests."

I slowly lower the gun in frustration and watch as Eris breathes a sigh of relief.

"How is Neah?" I ask. I had watched them race her across the grounds to the hospital. I thought the twins might have already been putting to much strain on her body. "She is okay. Just needed some fluids and food."

"The twins?"

He pauses, because I hadn't said anything. "They are good too."

"She's pregnant?" Eris mutters

"Yes. Feeling bad about lying now?" I ask

She doesn't answer

"Eris, come with me." Dane instructs. I watch her walk over to him. She regularly tosses her hair over her shoulder and gives me one final glance as they head towards the pack hospital. I should go inside to Maddie, but I needed to check my daughter was safe.

Knocking on the door, Samara answers. Her body stiffens a little. "She's in there." She pulls the door further back and steps to one side. My eyes move to her hand where I see a unicorn sticker. ""She likes you?"

"I think so." She mutters and briefly smiles at the sticker.

"Dorothy?"

"In here Daddy!" She calls back.

I make my way in and find the room decked out in sheets and blankets. Dorothy sticks her head out "Do you like my den? Sammie made it for me."

Looking over my shoulder, I see Samara standing further back, cautious. "You seem different."

"I doubt if you would believe me even if I told you, but Dakota has helped me understand a lot of things and still is."

"Or maybe with Cooper gone, you have become free to be who you were always supposed to be."

I follow her to the kitchen as she offers to make me a drink. Her soul was healing. It wasn't quite there, but it will be. "You like Damien, don't you?" I ask

"He's kind to me. He didn't have to let me stay here. He didn't have to lend me his clothes. He didn't have to do anything." "You know that's not what I'm talking about."

She places her hands on the counter and tips her head back. "He is mated to someone else. I can't do anything about that."

"Do you know that sometimes, the mate bond isn't for everyone."

"What do you mean?"

"Not everyone who is together is together because of a bond. Obviously it is better that way, ninety percent of the time. But not always. Some people choose each other because they fall for each other." "Why are you telling me this? You hate me. I know you came here to check that your daughter is safe around me."

"Because I can see when someone is trying to turn their life around."

 

Chapter 0490

Neah

"Can't you just let me leave!" I hear Eris before I see her. Damien rolls his eyes as he sits across from my bed.

'Does she ever shut up?' Nyx mutters

'No.'

"You really can't stand her, can you?" I whisper to Damien

"Could you if she was making ridiculous comments to you every time her mouth opened? It's not only that, one minute she is begging to leave, the next she expects me to do exactly what she tells me." The door swings open and her eyes move straight to Damien. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to support my brother and my Alpha's." He tells her

"Sit!" Dane commands and she shuffles to the empty chair.

"I don't know what you expect from me. I've already said what I need to say." She tells us.

"Well," Dane starts. "Brax seems to think that you are lying."

""Brax?" I ask

"He was questioning her and he has made it very clear that our guest is full of shit!" Dane frowns

I stare at her and she lowers her gaze. Brax was never usually wrong about someone lying.

"Why were you speaking to Brax?" I ask

"I was seeing if he could help me. I didn't expect to run into the other father of your kid!" She snaps as she glares at Damien. "That's some messed up situation."

"Remind me again why I should accept you as my mate?" He snaps back and Eris closes her mouth into a pout

"What about Alpha Silas?" I mutter

She straightens her spine.

"You were running from him?"

"Yes." she murmurs

"Why?"

"I've already told Klaus."

"And I'm guessing that was a lie. Otherwise Brax wouldn't have held a gun to your head."

"You couldn't have seen that." she scoffs

"I have eyes everywhere." It was only Samara that had linked me but Eris didn't need to know that.

She slouches back and keeps her head low. "I was running from him." She drums her fingers on the chair. "But the story I gave them was a lie. I thought... I don't know what I thought. Safety maybe. A chance to find someone who understands. Someone who will help me. I didn't expect to find my mate."

"Understand what?" Dane demands "If you don't give us any information, how do you expect us to help or trust you."

"Alpha Silas is a menace." she whispers

'She can't even look directly at us when she is talking.' Nyx growls 'And she doesn't seem to have any fear.'

'She is lying.' I whisper back.

"Is he, or are you just looking for an excuse to cover your ass?" Damien frowns at her

"When he killed Alpha Ryan, it was unexpected. A shock. Alpha Ryan didn't have enemies. Alpha Silas came in the night. Slaughtered Alpha Ryan in his sleep. And I'm not talking about just slitting his throat. They ripped him open, spreading all his organs out on the bed around him. I found him."

'Pack takeovers are not unheard of.' Danes voice echoes in my head. 'But they don't happen like they used to.'

"I sounded the alarm and when Alpha Silas discovered it was me, he promised to make my life hell. I became a slave to the pack I once knew. He would make me do stuff." She shivers

"What kind of stuff?" I ask

"Do I really need to answer that?" she frowns "I'm pretty sure you can figure it out. I escaped by the skin of my teeth and just ran. I ran and ran until I scented Cooper. He was watching me and offered me safety."

The words fall from her lips so easily, yet none of it felt like the truth. She kept her gaze off of me. She couldn't even properly look at Dane or Damien. It was all crap, but I wanted to see how far she would go. "Call Alpha Ryan." I tell Dane

"What? No, wait. You can't, he is dead!" She panics

"Then it will be Silas that answers, won't it?" she stares at me in horror. "If Silas answers, we don't need to confirm you are here and it will tell us that you are partly telling the truth. If Ryan answers, then we will know that you are lying." "Please don't. He will know I'm here."

"Who, Ryan or Silas?" Damien presses

"Alpha Silas. He keeps everything tightly wrapped up. People don't get to leave the pack and if they do, well.... I'm pretty sure you can figure that out." 'That's twice she has said that.' Nyx mutters

"He keeps everything locked up. He doesn't want anyone to find out that he is there. And if someone calls, you will become his next target." Eris tells us