The Alpha’s Contract

Chapter 0492

Dane

I cock an eyebrow at my mate. It was not the answer I was expecting. Shifting my gaze to Eris, I sigh as she remains curled up, sobbing. She reminded me of Raven and how she had been after rejection. The difference, I felt sorry for my sister whereas I felt nothing for this woman.

She had only been here for a short time and already she was a pain in my ass.

Pressing my lips to Neah's forehead. I tell her I will be back in a little while.

"Get up." I mutter to Eris.

She doesn't move and continues to whimper in pain, but she had brought it on herself. Damien would never be happy with her.

"Get up!" I snap, pulling her to her feet by her elbow.

"Where am I going?"

*There is no place for you here. You get to leave, just like you wanted." I tell her

"Really?"

I nod and guide her through the hospital. We pass Klaus but he doesn't say anything. He had done what he could, but it just wasn't going to work out. It would be too much of a risk to let her stay here. And she doesn't acknowledge him either.

She shuffles along at an awfully slow pace and I had to keep tugging her forwards.

"Wait, this isn't the direction of the gates." she protests. "The gates are over there." she points in the opposite direction.

"We are not going to the gates." I direct her into the forest. Content belong to NôvelDráma. Org.

"Why?"

*Too many eyes. And Damien doesn't want to see you." I murmur

"Okay. You will have to point me in the right direction once we get to a road. I'm getting all turned around."

I nod. She was already all turned around. "Cooper spoke of Silas?" I ask, wondering if I could get a tiny bit of truth from her.

"Yes. At first I thought they were made up stories, but after a while, I knew that they must be true."

"How?"

*Facts, small details. They never changed."

"Why did you panic when you saw me?" I ask

*Because you are the picture Cooper painted in my mind. You might look like him, you might not. But I do know

from the stories, he has eyes just like yours. Strange and weird for a Wolf."

"And you could be lying." I mutter as she scoots around a tree stump

"It's hard sometimes."

"What is?

"Everything." She frowns as she ducks under a low tree branch

"Are you just saying it to try and get some sympathy votes, because that won't work on me."

"My mate just rejected me."

"I was there, I saw and heard everything. But what does that have to do with everything being hard?"

She stops and her golden eyes find mine. "Because people never see me for me."

"Understandable when you lie to everyone."

She scowls at me. "And you haven't lied?"

"I didn't say that, did I? Now keep walking?"

"He could have had me. I could have been his perfect mate, but no, I am not good enough."

"No, no you couldn't have. You are too much of a liability."

*Excuse me?!"

*Damien was right. It's impossible to tell what is a lie and what is the truth when it comes to you. You are all over the place. Scattered."

"I am not!"

*Then tell me who are you running from?"

"I told you."

"You did. Then you admitted it was a lie. That you had never met Silas. So who in White Cliffs are you running from?"

"No one."

"White Cliffs are not a local pack, they are far north. So you travelled a long way before Cooper."

"Why do you want to know?"

*Just curious. Plus I need to know who to alert about your death."

She tugs her arm free. "What?"

"I love my mate and usually, I would agree with her decision. But lately, things have become too problematic to allow you to live."

"You can just let me go. I won't say anything. I promise."

"That's the problem, Eris. You might be more believable if you had just told everyone the truth in the first place."

"I mean it." She begs, her voice going all squeaky. "I really won't say anything and I won't come back here. It will be like it never happened."

She takes a step backwards. Holding her hands up. "Neah said I could go. I heard her."

"Yes, she did say that. But did you not take notice of her surroundings? She was in a hospital, exhausted. She wasn't necessarily clear in her thinking, but I am."

With each step I take towards her, she backs up until her body crashes into a tree.

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She freezes as a gun goes off, not even a second passes and I see the small bullet hole in the centre of her forehead. A tiny trickle of blood runs down between her eyes. The light dimming from them before her body slides down the tree trunk.