The Alpha’s Contract (Taylor West) novel Chapter 172
Dane
“Neah?”
She falls into silence. Staring back at me with her mouth partly open. “Can we please find Jess and Jenson. I know she is dead. I just… I need to say goodbye.”
“You’re deflecting.” I mutter.
“I just need to deal with one thing at a time.” She mumbles with a frown. “Please?” she adds, practically choking on the word as tears fill her blue eyes.
I link my brother, he doesn’t answer immediately. Though I feel his pain through our link.
‘Jenson, where are you?’ I ask again
‘Leave me alone!’
‘Jenson!’ I snap through the link
‘Fuck off!’
‘Don’t you dare speak to me like that! Where are you?’
‘You let them come here. You let them invade our home.’ His anger through the link was rising to levels I had never felt before.
‘Jenson, where are you?’
‘Far away from you.’ He snaps, ‘You put her in danger and I can never forgive you for that!” He takes a deep breath. “I, Jenson Black, former Gamma of the Black Shadow pack, reject all ties to Black Shadow from this moment onwards.”
‘FUCKER!’ Aero roars
I feel the breaking of our connection, just as Raven lets out a scream. She would feel it too, because he would be rejecting her as his twin too.
Neah’s eyes are wide as she stares at me, waiting for me to speak.
“He has rejected the pack. He has left. He left and he has taken Jess’s body with him.” I mutter in annoyance
She blinks back the tears. “What does that mean? Why would he reject the pack?”
“He blames me for Jess’s death.”
“Where will he go?”
“I don’t know.” My face hardens. “But he has made his choice and he can live with it.”
“You are giving up on him, just like that?” She asks in shock.
“He doesn’t want my help, Neah. He doesn’t want his sister's help.”
Neah looks back to the kitchen door where we could both hear Raven sobbing. Tears that she hadn’t shed in years are probably drowning her face.
“Go to her.” Neah whispers softly. “She is your sister.”
I hold my hand out to her, “Are you coming?”
She looks up at me, a small smile, creasing her lips. “Maybe it doesn’t have to be a completely bad day.” She takes my hand and places it on her small bump. I could feel the movement underneath. Only slight, and more like fluterrings, but still movement. It was enough to keep me focussed and deal with Raven.
Raven, as expected, is in floods of tears. She is on the floor, gripping on to Damien like her life counted on it. He is talking to her but even I knew it was falling on deaf ears.
“Will someone tell me what has happened?!” Klaus asks
“Raven, I know you are hurting. Jenson has made his choice. You wouldn’t have been able to change his mind. No one could have.” I glance back at Klaus who sighs.
She doesn’t speak. Her eyes are glazed and she stares at a spot on Damien’s shirt, unblinking, unmoving while great big fat tears roll down her cheeks. Maybe Midnight was trying to offer some comfort, but then again, Midnight had lost her twin too.
“I will take her upstairs.” Damien mutters, rising to his feet with Raven cradled in his arms.
“I think I will rest too.” Neah murmurs, her eyes shift to Mallory though her mouth remains closed.
I stop her before she leaves. “Tell Nyx to drop the block.”
She nods and her eyes briefly darken. I could feel all her emotions come flooding in. I never thought the day would come where I wouldn’t feel normal because I didn’t feel my mate. Somehow, after all these years searching, she was the only one who made me feel complete.
In that second, I understood Jenson's reaction. He had gone from woman to woman until he had a mate who made him rethink everything because she was too young for him to act on it. Grief had hit him like a brick wall.
“Is she okay?” I ask Klaus about Mallory as Neah leaves.
“It was close according to Raven. He sliced her stomach up pretty well but somehow, she didn’t lose much flesh. Raven was able to put it all back together. It might just take a while for her to wake up.” He pauses, “I am sorry, Dane. If I had known it would come to this, I would have told you.”
“I know. It’s in the past. What we have now is a Rogue on the loose. And I have no idea who its next target is. Did Roan say anything about the Rogues' plans?”
He shakes his head at me. “I would say Lycans, but it went after Raven first." He shrugs his shoulders. "Maybe it is whoever is fair game because it doesn’t seem like it's here just to piss off Damien not anymore.”
“No, but what else do the first two victims have in common?”
“Neah, but that doesn’t explain Mallory.” He gestures to the unconscious woman on the kitchen table.
“Death.” Mallory mutters huskily, her eyes still closed. “He wants to bring death to everyone.”
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