The Alpha’s Contract

Chapter 0485

She pauses over her doodles and slowly lowers her pencil. She pushes her small frame off the floor and moves towards me with her brows knitted.

"The lady outside?" she asks casually

"Yes. I saw the way you looked at her. I know you were reading her."

"She isn't happy. She was a long time ago and something changed. It's not dark, but it isn't light." Dottie pats her chest. "She hurts but she doesn't want anyone to know."

"Why did you run inside?"

"Um, she um," Her eyes drift to Samara. "She is your mate but she doesn't like that you have friends or me."

*Dott....."

*She will take you away from me." Tears are creeping down her face as she blurts out the words.

I try to reassure her that no one is taking me away, but she runs to her bedroom crying.

"Do you want me to go talk to her?" Samara offers.

*No. Thank you for the offer, but it's me that she is worried about."Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

"I don't understand. How can she read people like that?"

*She is a Hunter. She is biologically Brax's child.

She frowns. "That was the child Blair told me about."

"Yes."

*You have a Hunter in your house and you are not worried? Should I be worried?" she asks as her brows shoot up her forehead.

"She isn't exactly like Brax." Content belong to NôvelDráma. Org.

"Why does she call you Daddy if she is Brax's child?"

"It's a long story."

"I'm happy to listen," she offers "It beats listening to my own narrator."

"Dakota?"

*Yes. She likes to talk, alot. I don't mind it, it's different and sometimes weird that she knows exactly what I'm thinking, but it's reassuring too. Does that make sense?"

*Neah told me the same."

"But we don't all have the inner Lycan?"

"No, it's to do with carrying Alpha genetics. At the end of the day, you carry Kitson blood."

"Still a lot to understand." she murmurs. "But tell me about Dorothy. I would love to understand more."

She listens carefully as I tell her how Dottie came into my life. She doesn't interrupt me and smiles at me when I finish. "You helped her."

"I like to think so."

*Can I ask you a question?" she murmurs

"Sure."

*Do you think Salem knew she was there? Do you think he left her purposely for you to find? Did he slaughter those people because of what they did to her?"

"Yes. There was no way that he didn't know she was there. Rogues have a stronger sense of smell and Dottie saw him. Whether he chose to leave her there for me to find, or to use her as an opportunity to get further away is a different question and one that I will never know the answer to." I turn my face to the ceiling. "She is far stronger than most people realise,"

"I agree, she is."

My eyes lock on hers, "What did she say to you when she was in here, alone with you?"

Samara smiles at me. "She told me that she could see I was a good person deep down. That I just need to get out of the trap that no longer exists."

"Anything else?"

She shrugs her shoulders, "Only that she likes me." she points to the back of her hand where a blue unicorn sat." She gave me a sticker. Told me that Neah would know I was a good person. But I know it will take more than a sticker for Neah to believe that. I keep expecting her to knock down the door and come and take me back to the dungeon."

"It's not going to happen. I've already told her you are here with me and I am keeping an eye on you."

"You don't have to do that Damien. As much as I am grateful to not be sat on a concrete floor, you don't have to be nice to me." She wiggles herself back into the sofa, letting out a soft sigh as she enjoys the comfort.

*You are right. I don't have to do anything. I'm choosing to let you stay here."

She looks at me with wide grey eyes. "Thank you." she whispers. "You should talk to Eris though."

"I will if she is willing to listen, but she seems to be stuck on it's her way and her way only. Maybe she got away with that in whatever pack she came from, but that doesn't work with me."

*Ashburn City."

"Hmm?"

*Ashburn City is the pack she has come from. An Alpha has moved in and taken over, killed the old Alpha."

"Who is it?"

"She's already mentioned him. Alpha Silas."