The Alpha’s Contract

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Damien

She stares back at me from her cell. Samara had been staring at us both for a while. But since her grey eyes had shifted to me, I seemed to be all she could focus on.

‘Rogue?’ Dane asks through mindlink

‘No. Brax would have scented it a mile off and so would I.’

I look in the cell. All the claw marks at the top made sense when she was probably over eight feet tall, though it was hard to tell while she was still sitting. The rest of us were probably around the seven foot mark once shifted.

“Can you talk?” Dane asks her and for a second her eyes shift to him before returning to me.

“Maybe we need Neah.” I mutter

"I will ask her to come over." Dane frowns

Samara gives me a sharp nod, like she knew that was who she needed. She doesn't move as we wait for Neah, but she does not stop watching me either and it is starting to creep me out.

Neah's footsteps are soft as she creeps down the stairs. "What did you....?" She stops as she spots Samara's Lycan. "She shifted again?"

"She doesn't seem to be able to control it." Dane tells her.

"But she knows it's coming in time for her to remove her clothes?" She points to the discarded clothes in the corner

Dane sighs. "Yes, it seems that way."

Neah suddenly holds a hand up to Samara. "I am talking to my mate."

I look in the cell to see Samara has dropped her head in submission. It was new. She had been angry, frustrated, even tearful but to accept dominance was different. Maybe it was the Lycan in her, maybe she couldn't refuse, or maybe she was starting to see that she couldn't win. It had taken long enough.

"She just shifted?" Neah asks Dane

"She screamed and wanted us to leave, then this appeared." Dane gestures to Samara

"We all knew she was a Lycan." I murmur and Samara's grey eyes flicker to me. "But she is a lot bigger than the rest of us. Could she be something else?"

Neah moves closer to Samara's cell, yet Samara keeps watching me until Neah speaks to her.

"Who are you?"

"What do you want?

Neah is silent for a moment and then tells Dane and I to turn around. "No one wants to be watched while they are shifting if it hurts."

We turn and face the opposite cells. A growl turns into a howl that is quickly replaced with a Human screaming and crying.

"Get dressed." Neah mutters. "You need to give us clear answers."

"I can't." A whispered reply echoes around the dungeon

"You mean you won't." Neah presses

"No, I can't. I didn't lie. I came here for help. That is my truth."

"First you said you came for help and then you said it was your brother who wanted you to come here. Now you are back to saying it was for help. Which is it?" Neah dehands

"Help. I need help." Her voice cracks

"Then why did you threaten us with your brother?"

"You were going to kill me and he always said he would protect me. Now this, the monster.... It hurts so much. Is that what he was protecting me from?"

I turn around to see Samara sitting on the floor. One leg folded under her at an awkward angle while she hugs the other. Tears fill her grey eyes

"Cooper followed you here?" I ask

She points to her neck. "I think he put something in me. I think he does it to most people, to keep tabs." 'A tracker?' I link Dane.

'Possibly." He replies, but he is deep in thought about something else. "The farm? You or Cooper?"

"Coop at first, to stop anyone running away, Blair was not the first but she was the first that I liked. That's why Thelped her. She reminded me of me and I just thought that maybe he wouldn't net away. The other's they, bet miss one. I could just help one.get different, dangerous even without Wolves and Lycans. I had to keep them busy until Coop came for them. That was my job and I got to stay on my little farm."

Her eyes settle on Neah. "Blair told me who you were. I thought....I thought this would be it. But I knew I had to lie. To her, to him, to everyone." "That's the trouble when there are too many lies." I tell her. "You unravel and you end up in even more shit. The kind that gets you killed." "What do you want?" Neah demands.

"I just wanted to get here. It took so much time to convince Blair to come here and I really thought she was going to walk away after we had come so far. I knew there was a chance that you would kill her. took that risk because I thought if I could just get her to show me where you were, then maybe I could convince everyone she is not who she once was. I didn't think that my death would be a possibility. I thought... it doesn't matter anymore. I know you won't help me."