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Neah
I could hear them. Their voices sliced through the thick fog in my brain. Raven and Alpha Dane are arguing about the Witch who bound me.
I could hear Raven defending the Witch, not for what had happened in the past but for what she had done now.
"She knew exactly who I was, Dane!" She snaps "She knows you are my brother. I don't think she needed a degree to figure out why I was asking for it." "Guys, guys." Devon calls out.
"I still can't believe you went to her." Alpha Dane snaps
"If I hadn't, Neah would be dead!" Raven snaps back
Death. Maybe that was why I was here. Maybe death was what I was made for.
"Will you guys shut up!" Devon snaps. "Take it outside, she doesn't need to hear this."
"I'm sorry, Dane. I did what I thought was the best thing for this pack. I did this to protect us. Why can't you see it?" Raven stops shouting. "I did this for Black Shadow." "How much?"
"It was nothing."
"She always has a price. How much?"
"I will pay you back."
"Raven!"
I don't hear what she says and I prefer it that way. But from the collective gasps, I assume it was a lot more than what anyone would pay.
"I have it now. She gave me a list of ingredients and the directions to make it myself."
There's silence and I feel myself slipping away into my own fog. Wrapping itself around me like a blanket as it cocoons me.
"She moved!" Devon's voice drags me back out of the fog.
"She's been twitching since yesterday." Alpha Dane mutters
"No, she moved. Her hand opened and closed."
Alpha Dane grabs my hand, and short little spikes of electricity fly up my arm, jolting my heart.
"Did you see that?" Raven asks. "There was a spike in her heart rate."
"Neah? Neah?" Alpha Dane calls my name
Had he felt it too?
I try to speak, but nothing comes out.
"Take your time, I'm right here." Alpha Dane murmurs. He squeezes my hand and I feel the sparks again.
My eyes creep open to the bright lights of the hospital, which forces them closed again.
"Turn the lights off," Alpha Dane orders as he reads my mind As my eyes open again, I don't recoil from the dimly lit room.
"Hey," Alpha Dane cradles my head. "How are you feeling?"
A raspy sound comes from my throat as I gaze at him.
"It's okay, take your time." Raven mutters
"You scared the crap out of all of us." Devon mumbles
I don't turn to look at him, instead choosing to keep my focus on Alpha Dane and his strange crimson eyes. It was a relief to see him. For just a second, I had thought it had all been a dream. Who? I wanted to ask. Who did this? The last thing I remember is listening to Alpha Dane send Eric and Devon into the city.
"Veronica." Alpha Dane mutters, reading my mind. "She injected you with Blood of Wolfsbane. Raven had an antidote."
I knew the bitch was going to try and kill me.
I see Alpha Dane smile. For just a second, I forgot how easy it was for him to read my mind
"She's dead, you don't need to worry about her anymore." He confirms.
"And a good thing too, Otherwise I would have had to kill her." Devon mutters.
Now there was just Trey and Cassandra to deal with.
Alpha Dane doesn't say anything, I knew he was listening to me. What was he not telling me?
"Can we have a minute alone?" Alpha Dane mutters to the others.
They leave, though they are not happy about it.
He shuts the door behind them and rolls the blind down. It was serious.
"Eric and Devon did go into the city." He tells me, "And just as we predicted, he is creating more Lycans. He may be doing it just so he can attack us, but at the same time, it will piss off other Wolf packs." My voice sounds like a knife being scraped on a plate as I ask why.
He frowns, "Talk to me through your thoughts."
I nod and he continues to tell me how packs will feel threatened by Trey's ability to turn humans.
"It's the same as Vampires turning a lot of humans in one go. They do it to invade an area and then kill the ones they turned"
'Vampires?'
"Sorry," he mumbles, "There are a lot of other species in the world. Though you will never see them here."
'I don't know what a Vampire is'.
He narrows his eyes at me and I shrug my aching shoulders at him
"Blood feeders. That's all you need to know."
The way he barely speaks of them, made me pretty sure I didn't want to meet them anyway.
Shifting a little on the bed, Alpha Dane presses a button and the whole bed begins to move, pushing my back up until I am sat up, looking at him.
He had a serious expression, his lips pursed a little as a small crease appeared on his forehead.
"You need to tell me when something doesn't feel right."
'I..... I thought I was just really, really tired. My head felt a little fuzzy, it still does.'
He leans over me, placing his fists on the bed, inches from both sides of my hips. His face is close, his scent is wildly intoxicating.
"I can't lose you." He mutters in a low voice. "I won't lose you."
His crimson eyes bore into mine. My thighs involuntarily clamp themselves together as I gaze back at him. He had this ability of making you want to obey him.
My head bobs up and down and he grabs my face, kissing me. His tongue briefly skims mine, and he quickly pulls away
"I have to let you rest."
He sounds annoyed and disappointed. I spotted his swollen bulge and I wondered how difficult it was, having to restrain himself right now.
"If you were here for anything else, I would fuck you, right here, in this bed." He murmurs
He moves away, sitting in the chair and watches me. He doesn't speak, but his gaze tells me everything. When I'm given the all-clear, I won't be leaving the bedroom.
It's hours before Raven lets me go. She puts me through loads of tests. Asking my full name, where I was, if I could tell her what day it was, and then there were the physical challenges. The more tests and questions she asked, the more impatient Alpha Dane grew. "Raven, surely you have all your answers by now?" He snaps. He still hadn't left other than to use the bathroom.
"I'm just being thorough. I don't need you biting my head off because I missed something.
He frustratedly waves at her to carry on.
I do everything she asks, but she still insists that when I go back to the packhouse, I rest.
"I'm okay." I whisper
"I'm not taking any chances." She turns to her brother, folding her arms across her chest. "Nothing physical for a couple of days."
His crimson eyes find mine. His lips curve up a little, he was going to find a way around her instructions which scared me a little. Especially when I think of our last time together.
We walked slowly back towards the house, just like the first time I had been in the pack hospital, I refused to let him carry me, insisting that I needed to stretch my legs.
Devon hovers closely behind too, like they were both expecting me to drop at any moment or maybe they thought that I was going to be drugged again. Alpha Dane glances at me. He was still listening to my thoughts.
"Just take your time." He murmurs. "I'm not going anywhere. I know you are aching."
Trey and the others would never have cared about something like that. They would have forced me to work through the pain, ensuring I suffered more. "And I will make them suffer too." He adds
"You will have to beat me to it." Devon mutters from behind me. "Even that Veronica I would have made her suffer more than just feeding her to the Wolves."
I freeze at his comment. Fed her to the Wolves? Did he mean actual wolves or the pack?
"You don't need to worry about it." Alpha Dane mutters to me and I see him glare at Devon
"Sorry, I will keep my mouth shut." Devon sucks in his cheeks, avoiding making eye contact with me.
I should have expected it to turn out badly for her.
And I knew there was a dangerous side to Alpha Dane.
I should have put two and two together to realize that when he kills someone, it's never simple and straightforward. Kyle's death was probably the easiest kill he has ever had.
However, it did make me wonder about the other women's deaths. Alpha Dane doesn't say anything and I decide not to question him.
He was listening to my thoughts anyway, but by the look he gave me, it would suggest that the others died in the same way.