The Alpha’s Contract

Chapter 0253

“Afraid?” Dane asks. His eyes flicker to me.

“Because she can’t control herself when she does.” Her eyes shift to Damien. “We both know everyone struggles with the darkness in different ways.” She sighs, “But she did anyway, I mean, we saw it. She ate that deer that I crashed into. Devouring it like it was a drug.”

“You still let her go.” Dane shakes his head in annoyance.

“Because she will come for Jenson.” Damien tells him. “She will come here, looking for him because he is her mate. We can trap her, keep her hostage and find out what her plan is.”

“Or we could just kill her.” Dane mutters. “What good is a plan if she is already dead?”

Damien nods in agreement, but I still needed more answers. Answers that I would never get if they kill her.

“I need her alive.” I blurt out and feel everyone's gaze on me.

“Are you sure?” Dane asks

I bob my head. “She can’t be doing all this just because we share the same father. Because that isn’t my fault. I think there is more to her story.”

“We can see how much Jenson knows.” Mallory suggests. “Where did you put him?”

“Dungeon.” Dane answers abruptly and walks out of the office.

I follow him to the kitchen, where he starts to fill a bucket with cold water. Pure anger is written across his face. He moves to the ice machine and chucks the ice in the cold water.

“Dane….”

“We agreed no more secrets, Neah. I seem to be the only one that is doing that.”

I feel my heart drop. “I know…This wasn’t supposed to happen.” I felt enough guilt already without him reminding me.

“I won’t lose you Neah. The boys can’t lose you either.”

“I know.” I really hadn’t thought it through. “I just…. I finally feel that I have some control over my choices. This isn’t how I thought tonight would go.”

He sighs and pulls me into his arms, locking them tight around me. “Come with me, let's try getting some answers from the prick in my dungeons.

He grabs the bucket of water and hauls it out of the sink with ease.

“Why do you need that?”

“Something to help him wake up.”

Back in the dungeons, Jenson is still out cold. Dane unlocks the cell and steps in with the huge bucket of ice cold water and flings it all over him.

“FUUUUCCCCKKKK!!! Jenson throws himself up right as Dane steps out of the cell and locks the door.

“Where the fuck am I?” Jenson demands. His eyes try to focus on the room. “Where is that bitch? Where’s Blair?”

“I don’t think you are in any position to be demanding answers.” Dane tells him. “What are you up to Jenson?!”

Jenson bares his teeth at Dane as if that was going to somehow scare him.

“You have tried to beat me multiple times, believing that you should be Alpha. You have tried taking Eric out for the Beta position. You continue to lose. so what do you want?”

“I did take out Eric, the moment I fucked his girl!”

Dane smirks and shakes his head. “Did you know the kids were yours?”

Jensons eyes narrow. “Of course I did.”

“Salem killed them.”

He shrugs his shoulders at Dane, unbothered and unphased.

“Seriously, they were yours and you don’t even care?” It bothered me. When I look at my boys, my heart feels like it's swelling with the love I have for them. How can someone just not care?

“Kelsie didn’t want me to have any part of their lives. She insisted your Beta believed them to be his own. I thought he might have figured it out way before now.” He laughs to himself. “Idiot.”

“Bastard.” Dane mutters

Jenson ignores him and looks me up and down. “Was the Lycan right? Did your kids turn out to be Lycans too?”

Dane sticks a hand out in front of me. A warning not to give him any information. Instead, I ask, “What are you and Blair up to?”

“You will find out soon enough.”

“Does it change things now that she has shifted?” I ask, wanting to annoy him as much as he annoyed me

There is a glimmer of fear in his dark eyes. That fear quickly turns to anger before they glaze over.

“You can try and link her all you want, little brother. She is too wrapped up in finding food to eat.”

“You’re wrong. She will burn this fucking place to the ground to find me.”