The Alpha’s Contract

"Damien found you just outside the gates." I confirm

Tears creep out the corner of her eyes. "Get some rest, Dane and Brax will probably want to ask more questions."

Lying back, her eyes close and I step out of the room. Sitting behind the small nurses station, I wait for Dane. I had already alerted him and when he arrives, Brax is right behind him.

"She spoke to you?" Dane queries

"Yes. Though she didn't say much that's different from her previous conversations. She said she had a message and that she is the message but I get the impression she doesn't remember everything."

"She is the message?" He asks

"A warning." Brax mutters. "So he is telling us how easy it was for him to do that to one Lycan, and how easy it would be to do it again?" His hazel eyes land on mine. "Is she still awake?"

"No. And I might as well tell you now that she got out of bed when I was doing a stock check. I found her in the bathroom and she had ripped her stitches. I've fixed her up, no harm done."

"No harm done?" He glares at me. We had been getting on fairly well until he learned of my background, now it seems that anything I do or say tends to rub him up the wrong way.

"She is fine, Klaus has confirmed that." Dane glares at him. He turns to me. "How much longer do you think it will be before we can have a proper conversation with her?"

"Normally I would be able to answer that, but I've never dealt with anyone in this state. It could be days, it could be weeks."

Brax starts pacing while rubbing his temples. "We need more information on this Cooper guy!"

"Do you think you are the only one to think that?" Dane mocks him

"Neah can't link him?" I frown.

"No, somehow, he has no ties to her." Dane tells meThis text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.

“Are you sure he is a Lycan?" It was a long shot, but I throw it out anyway. I was trying to add the pieces together and it was one of the things I could actually come up with.

Both men stop to stare at me.

"Of course he is, I could smell him when he was here. Blair said she could scent him the night he took her." Brax tells me.

"But didn't you say that Samara

completely masked her scent to the point you couldn't scent her." I reply and he scowls at me. He didn't like feeling outsmarted, he had told me that himself when we went out looking for answers for Neah. I ignore him and continue to speak to Dane. "So what if he has found a way to trick the mind, completely?"

Dane nods at me. "We did think Neah was just a bound Wolf. But Neah has confirmed there was a link to him before all this shit went down and now, it's gone."

"Think about it, what do we know?

We know that Cooper has somehow managed to take Maddies Lycan

abilities away and Blairs. We knowet

he convinced Blair that he was her

mate We know Samara was able to conceal her scent to the point we thought she was Human, ts she a Lycan or a Wolf?"

"A Lycan."

"So she achieved something that is unheard of and we know that Cooper probably helped her achieve that. So what's to say that he hasn't figured out how to make his scent smell like something else? And also figured out a way to make Neah

believe there was a link to him. For a moment I was thinking Witch, but what if he is part Witch? Or maybe a powerful Witch? He likes to punish Wolves and Lycans, it almost makes sense."

Dane grins while Brax looks like he has just chewed a wasp. He liked figuring things out and seeing what we couldn't see, but maybe that was the problem, he needed to use his brain more rather than rely on what his senses tell him.

Dane grabs my shoulder. "Come with me, I will call one of the nurses to take over here." "Are you sure, Maddie is still out of it."

"I will stay." Brax mutters through gritted teeth.

I tell him that I've just changed her IV bag and that nothing else needs doing other than monitoring her.

He gives me a sharp nod and disappears into her room, though I'm pretty sure I have just become his new target.