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Dane
She scowls at me. "Is that.... Is that even a possibility?"
"Right now, it seems like anything is."
"Because I'm a monster?"
"You need to stop calling yourself that."
She rolls on her back, staring up at the ceiling. Sighing, she rests her hands on her flat stomach.
"They will all react like that." She mumbles, puffing out her cheeks. "You...you are the only one that doesn't seem......"
"I'm not bothered by what you are. All I care about is that you are mine and why are you still insisting on wearing clothes to bed?" I pull her in against me. She lets out a little gasp as my hand goes up under her oversized tshirt and grazes her lower back. Unexpectedly, she pushes me away.
"I can't." she whispers and tugs the tshirt back down over her hips.
She was fighting hard to try and not think of something. Trying to keep her mind clear so I wouldn't know what the problem is.
Pinning her to the bed, I drop my weight on top of her. "What's wrong?"
"You're....crushing my.....lungs."
I ease my weight off of her just a little. But not enough that she can escape from under me.
"Are you still feeling a little tender?"
She closes her eyes.
"And you are embarrassed?" I drive a leg between hers, forcing her thighs apart.
Her head shakes a tiny bit,
"Uncomfortable." she whispers
Kissing the mark on her neck, I tell her I will let her be, just for tonight. Only then, does she relax. She drops off to sleep before I do, curled up into my side.
'We need to stop Trey and Cassandra.' Aero mumbles. 'They almost caused a war in the neutral zone.'
'I know.'
'We both know there are others out there that are desperate to knock us down a peg or two.'
'I know.' I mutter again, running my fingers through my mates dark hair.
'You know how angry I've been, Aero.
I wish we had been there or that she had never gone.
But I can't change what has happened. I can only make sure something like that never happens again.' Looking down at Neah, her eyelashes fluttered on her cheeks as she slept peacefully.
Seemingly unaware of the anger that was growing inside of me.
'I need to run.' I mumble to Aero, slipping myself out from Neah's grasp.
'I think we should speak to Devon again.' He tells me
'He didn't know that Neah was going into the city.'
'No, maybe he can give us a better understanding of what they might be planning now. Or maybe he will at least be able to predict their plan.'
Pulling on a pair of shorts, I make my way through the house and out into the falling snow.
The cold beneath my bare feet offered some relief from the constant warmth of my body.
Walking through the snow to the dungeon, I see a guard, leaning against the door, bored out of his mind.
"Any problems?" I ask
"No, keeps himself to himself." The guard mumbles, stepping aside to let me through the door.
The guard closes the door behind me as soon as I turn on the lights.
"Really, it's the middle of the night?" Devon mutters. He apologises when he sees me.
"I'm not the greatest when I haven't had sleep. What can I do for you Alpha Dane?" He stretches out his limbs and yawns.
"Neah." I mutter
"You are going to need to give me a little bit more information than that." He rubs his eyes.
"You keep talking about Neah, being this Alpha."
"She is."
"Right. What is she capable of?"
"No one knows for certain. I've tried researching, but the most I came across is how someone in her position will be of great power. They just need to know how to tap into it." "Are you talking magic? Like a Witch."
"Honestly Alpha Dane. I don't know. I just know that she will be able to get us back to our rightful status in the world."
"And that's why they fear her?"
"At the moment, I don't think it's so much as they fear her. They fear what she might be able to do."
"Particularly Trey and Cassandra?"
"They are the only leaders left, what do you think!"
"What would Trey want to remind Neah of?"
"What do you mean?" He rises to his feet and stands face to face with me. Only the bars keep us apart.
"What does Neah need reminding of?"
He cocks an eyebrow. "I don't know what you are asking, Alpha Dane. Is she in some kind of trouble again? You have to let me out of here. You have to let me help her."
"She is my mate."
"I am aware, but she is surrounded by Wolves. She needs someone who is her own kind. Someone who gets what its like to be us."
"We have been over this, it's her call."
"She doesn't know you are here, does she, Alpha Dane? All these late night visits and she is blissfully unaware as you lot try to figure out her past."
"Late night visits? I've been down here a couple of times since you have been here."
"Your bestie comes down here a lot. I believe he is having relationship issues."
"Why is Eric talking to you about his mate?"
"Sometimes a third opinion is better." He shrugs his shoulders
"Do you speak about Neah?"
"Nope."
"What do you talk about?"
"Like I said, his problems and in return for me listening, he brings me things." He gestures to his cell that now had a stash of fizzy drinks along with the bed, clothes and reading material.
I would need to speak to Eric about this, not once had he mentioned it.
Devon's fingers curl around the bars. "I swear to you, Alpha Dane, I am not here to hurt her. You know you can make the decision to let me out. You don't have to wait for my sister to decide."
'I still don't trust him.' Aero mutters
"Why would Trey and Cassandra go into the city?" I ask, ignoring Aero as well as Devon's pleas to be let out.
"I'm not following."
"They've kept themselves to themselves. Hidden away from other packs. None of us knew of your kinds existence and now, they are going to neutral territories. Why would they do that?"
"I'm guessing for the same reason everyone else goes there. Looking for something or....someone. Neah had a run in with them, didn't she?"
"Eric got her out."
Devon grins at me, "The hero. I knew he was a good man."
"He's not interested in men." I tell him again.
"Everyone can be swayed, Alpha Dane They just have to have that....uncertainty." He winks at me. "Anyway, for Trey and the whore to go into the city, there must be a big reason. A plan of some kind." "Could they find her?"
"Not Cassandra, but possibly Trey."
"Because of the blood connection?"
He nods his head at me.
"But they would have already had to have been nearby to know she was there. The same as me finding Moonshine. I told you I could sense it, but it grew stronger the closer I got. It's how I knew I was going in the right direction." He places his hands on his hips and struts around the cell, muttering to himself. He comes to a stop and his blue eyes flash up to me. "Who knew she was going?"
"My sister, her tutor, and a couple of other females. And obviously me and Eric."
"All Wolves, right. You haven't got any other Lycans hiding here?"
"Apart from Neah. Is it possible she could have told him, by accident, like open up a link between them?"
"Unlikely. The only other option is that they were already there for something else and Neah walked right into it. They won't come here, purely because you have the numbers."
I stare at him, remembering how he had
explained to us how Lycans had come to exist. He said it was a story and no one actually knows, but what if it was the truth? "Devon, can they create more?"