The Alpha’s Contract

Chapter 0428



He stares at me, trying to mask his annoyance.

"You are missing the point, Brax. This is not a situation we can just blast through and win. Do you not see that? He has been working on this for a long time. Whatever this is. Blair isn't his first victim and Maddie won't be his last. Blair said there were others in the prison with her. We still don't know what he wants."

"At one point, we thought it was me and yet he went after your mate and then there is Samara. The asshole has abused her and she can't see that. Cooper is using her and she is just going along with it because he has somehow convinced her that he is keeping her safe."

"So you want to help her?"

I frown, "I am saying I need time to think. There's not just one thing happening in the pack is there?" I snap, as I think about the little Lycan that is fast asleep in his cot upstairs. Shifting while asleep was not something I thought was possible, but Evrin had done it.

"Where is Dane?" I ask

“Last I saw him, he was speaking to Eric. He said something about wanting to speak to his Betas. I'm sure he will be back soon."

I nod

"I know I'm an asshole, but if you need to talk about something, I am all ears." Brax relaxes into the sofa. "Maybe I can shed some light."

"It's nothing."

He cocks a brow at me. "You are a rubbish liar. Did you know that?"

"And you can be really irritating! And you are worse when you haven't killed anyone."

"Think of it as keeping me sane. It's getting harder and harder for me to be who I am. I'm a Hunter, you know that. I used to go out and kill nightly. Being here, around Madison, you and even Mallory is making it almost impossible to be the man I was raised to be.”

"See, not all Lycans are assholes."

He smiles at my comment

"That's why you want to go after Cooper? You need to kill?"

He nods. "I need blood shed. Hunter's thrive on it."

"Klaus doesn't."

"Are you sure about that?"

"He's not really a killer."

"He likes to help in the hospital a lot, doesn't he? Maybe he just thrives in a different way. Though I don't think he would make a great Hunter, he is too.... relaxed. But there are elements of it in him. Excellent diversion tactic by the way."

"I wasn't trying to divert you."

"And yet you succeeded. You may not be a good liar, but you are good at digging out information. So come on, what's plaguing your mind?" I shake my head at him.

"Come on, I told you something about me, it's only fair that you return the favour."

"Samara?" I puff my cheeks out.

"She linked me in her sleep. No one has done that before. It was strange. I could feel everything she was

feeling as she slept. The mom ne

like

she woke up, it was gone. It was she didn't know she was doing it and yet it feels like she knew she was."

"Like her mind connected to you of its own doing?"

I nod.

"Almost like it wasn't her, it was someone else?"

I nod.

"You have Nyx because you are an Alpha. The same as Dane having Aero. Evrin has his and no doubt Logan will too when the time comes. "Wait, what? Evrin has who?"

"His Lycan spirit.” He smirks at me. "I thought that was obvious after he shifted."

Nyx doesn't say anything and I feel her retreating, though it wasn't like she had anywhere to hide.

'You already knew, didn't you?' I snap at her

'I didn't want to worry you.'

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"She doesn't carry Alpha genes." Brax continues "Because you are the last female Alpha." He takes off his ring and fiddles with it. "You are an only child, correct. Well minus Blair."

"Yes. Only child from my mother."

"If she were a sibling, you would have already known." He turns the ring faster and faster. He had resorted to it after I had told him to keep his guns out of sight.

"Did your mother have any siblings?"

"I don't know. I don't remember. I just remember Trey. He was raised to be my brother but was really my uncle... my father's brother. I don't, remember meeting anyone on my mother's side. I'm pretty certain there was no one. Ironically, the best person to ask would be Klaus. He has been researching my family for years. Is that what you think it is? That somehow Samara is family, like a cousin or something?"