Ch. 91..95: The Alpha Contract Chapter 91-95

Chapter 0091

Dane

The bastard had killed eight men. They all had families. Some were older with children of their own, some were younger, freshly graduated and wanting to prove themselves as warriors. It should have been a simple task, protecting my mate.

None of us knew. It was the down side of shifting under a full moon. We were at our strongest, yet we got caught up in the haze of hunting. Drowning out everything that isn't related to what we are tracking.

As I sit here, watching her turn her hand over. Her big blue eyes study the smallest of marks, trying to figure out where the claws come from and where they have disappeared too. I couldn't help but feel annoyed with myself. Yes she had protected herself, and it is what I've wanted her to do since the day she arrived. But that niggling feeling I have just won't go away.

And yet she doesn't seem upset.

Raven had confirmed that everyone had been dead for a while, and I could tell by Neah's blue tinged toes that she had been out in the cold for a long time. So maybe she had come to terms with it. Or maybe this Nyx had helped her process it. I just knew that she didn't seem phased which was unsual for someone who had just experienced their first kill.

'The bodies have been dealt with,' Klaus links me. 'Eric has checked in on all the kids and the elderly. No one has been touched. It just seems to be those who were guarding the house.

"I want both of you in my office in ten minutes.' I tell him.

Neah rub's her toes with the blanket, trying to warm them up.

"What brought Nyx to the surface?" I ask curiously.

"My period." She answers quickly, no hesitation or stuttering. "She said it's what was needed. She says she should have been present when I turned thirteen, but I never went through full puberty. My body was too weak."

She brushes her tangled hair back from her face. Grabbing her brush off the cabinet, I hand it to her and watch as she rakes it through her long dark hair, smoothing out the knots.

She sighs as she drops the brush on to the bed next to her, rejigging the blanket to cover herself properly.

"I know you are mad, Alpha Dane."

"I'm not mad at you."

"I know." she murmurs. She goes to speak again, but frowns and closes her mouth

'She's talking to Nyx.' Aero mumbles. 'Look at her eyes.'

'I worked that out.' I reply But as focus on her eyes, I see something that I haven't seen before. A dark ring around the blue.

"Neah?"

Her eyes flash up to mine and the ring disappears

"I need you to come with me."

"Where? Am I in trouble"

"Only downstairs to the office, I would leave you here but I don't feel comfortable leaving you alone right now."

She follows me through the house to the office, keeping the blanket tightly wrapped around her. Parking herself in her usual seat, she automatically pulls her knees up to her chest, hiding her legs under the blanket. Klaus and Eric appear, arguing about something.

"We all fell for it." Klaus snaps, "And from what I hear, you were having nightly visits with him."

They stop when they spot Neah. Eric's arms fold up as Klaus watches her curiously.

"Can we just get past the fact he played us all!" I snap "He kept up this fucking charade for a long time."

"Why would he help me kill Lycans if it was a set up?" Eric scowls

"Because he knew that we would have been on to him. It would have blown his cover. He had to make us believe that he was a good guy, that he was on Neah's side. He wouldn't have gotten away otherwise, not that he did."

"He said he was going to call Trey." Neah whispers. "That he just needed to let them know I was ready for collection. The doting brother, it was all lies."

Oddly for Neah, there is no emotion in her voice.

"He deserved it." she murmurs without looking at any of us. That subtle darkness raising its head again

"You killed him?" Klaus asks in surprise.

"I did. I ripped out pieces of his heart and then pushed him over the edge." She mutters, unapologetically.

"You?" Eric is shocked. And I could see why, she was small, she looked weak. You just wouldn't expect it from her. But then again, they don't see the darkness, bubbling under the surface like I do.

"I don't understand." Klaus mutters. "He looked just like you. Same dark hair, same blue eyes. There are even similarities in the way you both smile."

The final comment was an odd one. Was he interested in my mate?

"Everything was a setup!" I snap, drawing their attention to me. "And we fell for something as obvious as that." It was like Neah had said, I wasn't angry with her. I was angry at myself. I had seen all the tricks over the years. I had heard all the plans and still, I fell for it." 'You should have trusted my instincts!' Aero grumbles.

He was right. I should have. I fucked up and I lost a bunch of my men tonight, but she was still here and she was still alive.

My fist hits the desk, startling the men, but Neah just stares at me. It's probably the longest she has ever held eye contact with anyone.

"I'm calling Jenson back!"

Both men cock an eyebrow at me. Neither say anything and Neah just watches me.

"I know what you are probably thinking. I banished him, but you both know as well as I do that he is skilled in the art of war and he probably would have seen all this a mile away. This is his area of expertise and we are lacking in it."

I had ultimate control, my pack trusted me, but we all had our strengths and we needed him.

I look at Neah, "He won't come near you!" I was trying to be reassuring, but it came out as an order. She bobs her head at me.

"Nyx said she will kill him if he tries anything." Her answer is deadpan and both men cock their eyebrows at her

"Who the fuck is Nyx?" Eric demands.

"Nyx," I mutter, "Is Neah's Lycan."

"No, Devon said it wasn't possible." He splutters

"Devon also spewed a lot of other shit. All the crap he said about Neah not remembering him, don't you see that it makes sense now. There was nothing for her to remember, he didn't exist!" I shout at him. Whatever thing he had going on with the guy, he needed to get over it. Devon had screwed us and that was the end of it.

Chapter 0092

Standing out in front of the house, Alpha Dane's fingers were entwined with mine. It had been four days since the incident and he barely let me out of his sight, even training and tutoring were out of the question and there was no room for debate. I knew that he was silently

questioning my every move while everyone else was feeling the brunt of his anger.

It had been years since they had lost a pack member to anything other than old age or at the hands of Alpha Dane. It put the whole pack on edge. There were meetings constantly. New measures were being put in place. And apart from Jenson, no one else will be granted entry to the pack, not for now at least.

"Are you okay?" Alpha Dane asks without even looking at me

"Uh huh." I stare out at the grounds. The snow had stopped and spring was on its way.

He asked me if I was okay multiple times a day, like he expected me to spontaneously combust at any moment.

Alpha Dane looks out the corner of his eye at me. A look I was getting used to, because it wasn't just him. Everyone that I came into contact with in the last few days, gave me that same look.

It wasn't quite blame, because that is a look I would recognise anywhere. One that I received regularly at Moonshine. Here, I couldn't quite figure it out, but it was definitely something and Nyx didn't help, challenging anyone who she didn't like the look of. She would hurtle herself forward, taking control for just a second and I couldn't figure out how to stop her and she wouldn't tell me either, like it was some massive secret.

A fancy car starts making its way towards us. It wasn't the one Alpha Dane had sent Jenson away in and as I look up to him, I see the heavy set frown. He didn't want his brother back, but what had happened four days ago gave him little choice.

Jenson gets out of the car, slinging a bag over his shoulder. His dark hair had grown out since I had last seen him and was almost shoulder length now.

Jenson stops less than a metre from us, dropping his bag on the floor. His dark eyes settle on me. "Well you have caused quite the problem, haven't you." He didn't know everything.

Alpha Dane suddenly slides his hand into my hair, pulling it back to reveal my neck. More importantly, the mark he had given me. It was a silent warning. "Interesting." He grins at me. "Big bro has finally found someone to settle down with." His dark eyes don't leave mine.

'Fucking douche!' Nyx mutters

"Office." Alpha Dane mutters to his brother, "There is a lot that we need to discuss." The coldness in his voice sends a shiver down my spine and not in a good way.

I sit quietly in the corner of the office as Alpha Dane breaks the news of my ancestry to Jenson. Though he doesn't mention that I'm supposed to be an Alpha.

Jenson says something that surprises us both.

"So they do exist?"

"You've heard of them? Why have you never mentioned anything to me?" Alpha Dane demands

"It was a comment I heard in the city, ages ago now. At the time I just thought I had too much to drink."

"When?" Alpha Dane presses

"A year, year and a half. I thought that I had too much to drink. That my mind was playing tricks."

Alpha Danes' crimson eyes flashed to me and I knew exactly what he was thinking, it was the same thing I was. They had been recruiting for a lot longer than we thought. Maybe Devon was one of the recruits, maybe he had been changed a long time ago, long enough to have learned everything about me. "They are surprisingly decently skilled. Compared to that first one anyway." Alpha Dane scratches through the stubble on his chin. "One took out eight of my men."

Jenson turns to look at me. "Eight?"

"It was a trap... He... he was going to hand me over to Trey." I mumble

"I see that you haven't lost your stutter yet." He winks at me. "Some things never change."

"I suggest you focus on something else." Alpha Dane growls. "I didn't bring you back so you could hit on my mate. This is a chance to prove yourself Jenson."

Jenson turns away from me. "You mean if I am willing to help, you will let me come home."

"That is the deal."

"Are you going to write a contract for me too?" I hear his sarcasm and Nyx calls him a douche again.

"That can be arranged, but I would prefer that you do something for your family other than just think of yourself!"

"I said I would help." He mutters, "But I also get the feeling you are not telling me everything. I can't work without all the information."

Alpha Dane looks over to me and Jenson does the same.

"They want me... they want me so they can put a pup in me." I mutter in disgust because it still made me feel gross

Jensons eyes narrow, "But you are marked. It will kill you if they try anything."

"They don't know that, well we believe they don't. I'm not entirely sure what they do and don't know. There is still alot of missing informatio surrounding them and it depends if the traitor shared any of the information we learned." Alpha Dane murmurs

Chapter 0093

"Okay, then just show them the mark." He states as though that was it. I thought that would be the answer too, but Alpha Dane said it's not as simple as that. If they find a way to kill him first, I would be free from my bonds. The same as when he killed Kyle. Alpha Dane tells him exactly that.

"For argument's sake, let's say they do find a way to kill you." He mutters to Alpha Dane "Why are they so hellbent about putting a pup in her? Surely there are other females in the pack."

"She doesn't just carry Alpha blood, she is an Alpha!"

Jenson's dark eyes find me again, hovering on me for longer than before. I shift in my seat, and lower my gaze.

'Prick!' Nyx snaps

"I will help." He mutters eventually. "Like you said, Dane. This is my home too."

He swans from the office, muttering something about taking up his own room.

"You didn't tell him." I whisper

"About Nyx? No, I thought it would be more interesting to see how you respond to him, now that you have another spirit residing in you."

"You mean you want Nyx to surprise him?"

He smiles. The first proper smile I had seen in days. "It might remind him to stay in his own lane."

"Someone will tell him, it's not a secret."

"Perhaps, or maybe they will expect him to know. What did she think of him?"

"She called him a prick."

Alpha Dane laughs. "Finally a female who can see right through him."

He leans back in the desk chair, folding his arms across his chest. "I know I haven't been easy to live with for the last few days. But something like this just doesn't happen to my pack." "I know and I'm so...."

He holds a hand up, stopping me from finishing my sentence. "You have to stop apologising, Neah. I know you are sorry, but you can't feel guilt for something that was out of your control. I was the one who put you in that situation. I left you with just a few guards and the man who claimed to be your brother. You have to stop blaming yourself."

I don't think I can. Years of being made to feel guilty can't just be washed away. Some one could stub their toe and I would probably find a way to convince myself it was my fault.

I look up at the ceiling, trying to blink back the tears. I was expecting Nyx to comment on my weakness, but she too is quiet.

She had told me she could see everything. Every little memory I had and she hated that she wasn't there to protect me. She claims that she would have slit their throats while they were sleeping. And I wasalmost jealous that I hadn't had the balls to do that. "Hey." Alpha Dane had moved around his desk and was now standing in front of me. "I won't stop until he is dead. I won't stop until all of them are dead."

He cups my chin, running his thumb along my bottom lip, freeing it from my nibbling teeth. "Let me handle this."

My head moves up and down and his hand moves from my chin to my throat as he smashes his lips against mine.

He suddenly pauses, resting his forehead against mine, closing his eyes and a low growl comes out

"What's....what's wrong?"

"I am being summoned. We will finish this later." He tells me

He takes my hand, leading me from the office and out the house. We head directly to the forest and not to someone's house like I was expecting. "Where are we going?" I ask quietly

He glances at me with his crimson eyes but doesn't speak. Dread begins to fill my body. Nyx was becoming more and more restless too.

"Where are you taking me?!" I snap at him and instantly feel regret. Nyx was going to get me into a lot of trouble if she kept forcing herself forward.

There's a curiosity in his eyes that I didn't often see. "I just want you with me. A Lycan has been found in my forest and Klaus called me to check it out. Don't worry, he is dead." He pauses, looking at me, "I told you, I don't want you out of my sight. But it is nice to know that you are showing yourself." We move deeper amongst the thick trees until voices could be heard. Particularly Klaus who was busy snapping at someone.

A half shifted man was sprawled out on the floor. A man I recognised, that would come and beat me regularly, a man who liked to use the metal of his belt as his form of torture. I didn't know his name, but I had never forgotten his face.

"He wandered in." Klaus mutters. "Trying to claim he was a human and had lost his way. As you can see, he was killed mid shift."

I couldn't take my eyes off of him. Someone had torn out his throat. And I could think of nothing else, but to wish that it had been me that had killed him.

Chapter 0094

Dane.

Neah can't take her eyes off of the dead Lycan. A small smile sits on her face. Day by day her darkness seems to be seeping out a little more.

"Do you know him?" I ask.

"He was one of them." Her eyes hover on the belt buckle around his waist. His trousers had started to split from the shift, but he had been killed before he could complete it. Though the belt buckle remained in place. She stared at it like she had seen it before. "He used to hit me with that." Her voice is low and she continues to fixate on the dead man. I couldn't help wonder if she had stared at Devon in the same way when she killed him. "Do you know his name?"

She shakes her head, her eyes barely leave him to look at me, but I see how dark they are, the blue is barely present. Nyx was right there, waiting to break free. "Just his face." Neah mutters. "Are there any more?" I ask Klaus

"No, he seems to have come alone." Klaus mutters. "A stupid move."

"Unless it is intentional. Maybe Trey thought one would be able to get through." Devon had been alone when we had found him.

"He wandered in?" Neah mutters. She knew everyone available would be on guard, but it still didn't stop her being concerned.

Klaus points over to the trees that signal the boundary for this end of the pack. Less than two metres from where we are standing. "He didn't make it far, Neah. That's our pack edge on this side." Her shoulders drop in relief at his answer.

But it made me question if the pack was being watched. Of all the forest, it was where the boundary was closest to the house. Not only that, something Neah had said about her interaction with Devon. That he would call Trey to come, meaning he must be close by. I was trying to keep my concerns to myself, but she was starting to notice.

"Get rid of the body." I mutter. "I don't care what you do with it. But get rid of it."

The two men that are with Klaus drag the Lycan to the boundary line as I turn Neah away and take her back in the direction of the house.

"It's satisfying isn't it?" I murmur

"What do you mean?" She asks, carefully stepping over a fallen tree. Her balance was certainly getting better.

"Seeing someone that has harmed you, dead."

She doesn't answer me, pretending to focus on the uneven ground.

"You judge me when I kill someone, but I see the enjoyment on your face. You work hard to conceal it, but the curvature of your lips give you away."

She still doesn't speak and I didn't need to read her mind to know that she was embarrassed. The pink tint of her cheeks gave her away. And it just made me want to fuck her, right here in the open forest.

"They creep in." She mutters, focussing on her feet. "I don't.... I don't always think like that."

"I know. There is a piece in all of us that wants revenge for our past."

"I'm not....." She tries to deny it.

"I saw the look when I first met you. The glance at Kyle. The flitter of rage that crossed your face. Like I said, you hide it well, only now, your Lycan is making it harder for you to conceal it. How deep does the darkness go, Neah?" I pull her hips towards me, I wanted her. She stares at me, her eyes are a complete pure blue as her lips part a little.

"Or is it that you have just needed someone to tell you it's okay?" I brush the back of my fingers down over her cheek.

Her lavender scent quickly mixes with the scent of her arousal. A small gasp escapes her as I run a finger along her waist band. Her eyes darted around the forest. This was too open for her. The risk of too many eyes and ears catching her or us, was intimidating. I lean in close to her ear and drop my voice down until it is almost husky. "I want you more than I've ever wanted anything. I want you here and now."

The air catches in her throat and she gasps just as I push my hand down the front of her jeans. Just as expected, she is already wet and dripping for me.

Chapter 0095

"If you don't want to be caught, don't make a sound," I challenge her. She usually has the freedom to make as much noise as she wants. This is going to be hard for her.

Pushing a finger into her moist pussy. She keeps her eyes locked with mine, fighting against the need to make a sound. She grabs hold of me, pulling my face against hers, kissing me as she gasps into my mouth. "You will have to do better than that." I keep my voice low, pushing her back and up against a tree.

Her fight to prevent a noise from coming out just made things more challenging. Wet and throbbing, she pushes her hips down on my hand and closes her eyes as if that was going to help.

She was desperate for release, but I wanted to make this last for as long as possible and watch her cum over and over.

Her mouth makes that o shape, the one she couldn't control when her muscles start to contract. An almost silent gasp leaves her throat as she grinds against my hand. As her body slows, she opens her eyes. Thinking that she had won. "We are only just starting." I mutter, pulling her around until her back is up against my chest.

My fingers start circling her swollen clit again. This time I let her have what she wants, tracing her neck with my tongue, flicking it over her mark. She moans as my teeth scrape the mark. Sometimes it was just as sensitive as her clit and she couldn't get enough. "Quiet," I whisper. "You might attract some eyes."

Pulling her top up, I slip her bra up over her breasts, her hard nipples are easy to find, begging for my touch. Skimming over them, her back arches, pushing her pert tit into my hand.

Just as she's reaching her point, I pull out my fingers to be met with a shocked gasp.

"You've made a mess." I muse, holding my hand up in front of her face, her juices still on my fingers.

To my surprise, a tongue darts out and she flicks them over my fingers, tasting herself. I was hard before, but her willingness made me ready to burst and desperate to sink myself inside her and she knew. Her very own tease for me. "You are playing a dangerous game."

She doesn't say anything and pushes her ass back against me pressing herself against my cock.

"This is what you want, isn't it?" She mutters in barely a whisper. "You want to tease me until I can take no more. You want me to wait until the last minute, making me suffer, knowing that I'm desperate. And then you want to fuck me, right here, to prove a point." "And what point would that be?" I plant little kisses along her jaw line, knowing it was sending little electrical spikes through her that she was finding hard to resist.

"To show that you are in control."

"Then bend over and let me fuck you."

She leans forward, holding onto the tree for support as I lower her jeans and wet panties. She is still moist and ready for me and pushes herself up on to tiptoes as my tip enters her. I was more swollen than normal, turned on by her dark attitude and the desire to challenge me.

A muffled squeak breaks free from her as I slowly slide into her pussy. My hand grips her hair, pulling her head back a little so that I can see how she reacts.

I'll fuck her until she comes and then finish in her mouth.

She tries her hardest to not make a sound, eventually giving in and growling my name as she orgasms.

"Turn around." I mutter, she watches as I stroke my own cock. "On your knees."

She knew what I wanted and takes my length in her mouth, wrapping her tongue around me. Her sultry eyes lock on mine with the same intensity she had when she was in heat.

It doesn't take me long before I fire my load back her throat. She sits back on her haunches, licking up any remaining beads of cum from the tip of my cock.

Pulling her to her feet, I fix my lips on hers, locking my hands in her hair. We were more than a match for each other. We fitted perfectly together in every way.