The Alpha’s Contract

Chapter 0444

Damien

Brax's hands automatically move to his jeans, preparing to grab his gun. It takes him a millisecond to realise he didn't have it and he growls in response.

He was actually following Neal's rules. If I wasn't preparing for him to charge me, then I might have congratulated him on it.

"I don't care what is going on with you two." Dane snarls. He pushes his way between us as he looks at Neah. "Tell me more."

"She said she could hear a voice. But it's not Cooper, it's another female. She has a Lycan. Dane. Just like how I have Nyx."

"That's not possible. You are the end of your bloodline. You saw it in the family tree."

"Actually..." Klaus pipes up. "It's not finished."

"What do you mean it's not finished?" Dane demands. "There's more?"

"I think so, I just ran into a dead end."

"Are you telling me that I have another sibling?" Neah stares at him in disbelief. "Because Nyx is one hundred percent certain Samara is not my sister."

"No, no, definitely not. Only Blair. Klaus confirms. "You were your mother's only child, but some birth records that I managed to get hold of, indicate that your grandparents had another daughter after your mother was born."

"She still would have carried the Alpha gene." I mutter. "In the exact same way as Jenson and Raven did." Her name leaves my tongue with a bitter taste. I hadn't thought about her much and she was quickly becoming a distant memory. "The grandparent would have passed it down to any children and so on."

"Do you think the prick knew?" Brax asks with a frown.

"Samara is unsure. Her father told her that her mother wasn't ready to have children. But she still carried Samara to term and then handed her over to Samara's father. He raised her right up until he died."

"Cooper kill him?" Dane asks

"Surprisingly, no. He had a heart attack. Cooper has raised her since she was around the age of twelve."

"Before she could shift?" Neah mutters. "That's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?"

"It is." Dane confirms

I shift my eyes to Brax. He is frowning and pacing. With his eyes narrowed and with the creases on his forehead, he looked absolutely fucking livid. Possibly because Neah is right about him getting things wrong. But how had he missed so much when he claims to see their souls?

"But Cooper has to know this about her, right?" Neah asks. "The way he spoke. The way he was pissed with Klaus for telling us not to let her out."

Everyone nods their heads.

"What if he projects himself into the prison and lets her out?" Neah frowns and turns to Klaus. "You said he had to be strong to be able to wield a blade while projecting. So in theory he could appear in the dungeons and open her cell? Is that how his ability works?"

There's silence

"Someone say something!" Neah snaps

"I will watch her." Brax offers

"Fine, go. Don't fucking kill her." Dane wams him

"Is that wise?" I ask as Brax leaves the house.

"I imagine he is trying to figure out how and why he managed to miss so many signs." He takes Neah's hand in his. "For now, we need to work out if Sarmara is definitely connected to my mate and how."

"She doesn't know, I don't know." Neah mutters. "Like I said, Nyx is certain we are not siblings and Klaus said my mother never had another child."

"I think that it's time to return to where all this started." Dane tells her.

I watch fear fill her blue eyes and she tugs her hand from Dane. "Moon.... Moonshine?" she whispers

Dane nods. "Maybe we can get more answers there."

"We haven't been back there since..." Neah trails off. I watch her try to process what Dane suggested. I hadn't seen this much fear since she learned she might become Rogue. The confidence she normally has just vanished.

I knew the circumstances of how Dane had met her, I knew what Mallory had done to her in that house, but I had always kept myself away from knowing the finer details.

Dane cups Neah's face. "Technically, it is your land now."

Neah's eyes drop to the ground. "No one is there anymore." She mutters to herself and I

watch her take a deep breath. "Okay, but I'm not taking the boys."

"Fine. Damien, Klaus. You two are both coming too. Pack some things, we leave in an hour."

"An hour? Not in the morning?" Klaus asks

"It's a few hours away. Might aswell get a headstart."

Dane disappears into his office to make some arrangements as Klaus heads for the door. Nesh doesn't move, almost like she is glued to the spot.

"Are you okay?"

"I haven't...um... I haven't been there since they tried to kill me." She folds her arms across

her chest and sighs. "Did Cassandra ever take you there?"

"No. I was not that privileged. But Dane is right, no one is there anymore."