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Neah
He grips my elbow, pulling me into the house. His crimson eyes search mine, trying to figure out if I was definitely ready to do this. I didn't even know if I was ready.
But something had to be done. It was getting too much. Everything was too much and now kids were being turned.
"Beta Eric needs to.... He needs to warn Jess." I mumble as Alpha Dane steers me into the office.
"If it works, she will be able to hear me too. It will freak her out." I am twenty two and it still weirds me out when I hear Alpha Dane's voice in my head. Not to mention Nyx "I've told him. He is having the conversation with her right now."
I still didn't know what this would achieve. If anything, it seemed like it would piss them off more.
He guides me to the chair, telling me to sit down. I could see it in his eyes now. He knew there was every chance that this wouldn't work.
'Accept the role.' Nyx murmurs
'Will it work?'
'We will find out once you accept it.'
'Fine, I accept it!' I wanted it over and done with. I wanted to see their heads on spikes. I wanted..... I trail off realising how dark my thoughts go
'You will have to do better than that.' Nyx laughs
I look up to Alpha Dane. He is watching me. He said he could always tell when I was having a conversation with Nyx.
"You've got this. And I am right here." He smiles at me
"I accept," I mutter out loud
Alpha Dane shakes his head at me. I knew what he was saying, I had to put it all together.
"I, Neah Kitson, accept the role of..." I trail off again, could I really do this?
'It's in our blood.' Nyx murmurs
I slump back in the chair.
Devon had kept pushing for me to take my Alpha role back.
To take control and lead Moonshine.
He had really pushed for it too.
Insisting that it is what they all needed.
But they all believed a woman shouldn't be in charge. "Keep going." Alpha Dane insists. "You can do this."
"It's a trick." I mutter
"Neah, you are panicking." Alpha Dane speaks with a calm voice
"It was Devon who told you who I am. He pleaded with me to lead the Lycans. To take control. He said they needed me. But he worked for Trey."
I had been so stupid. I hadn't seen it.
"You think this is what he wants you to do?"
I swallow the lump forming in my throat. "They never wanted me to lead. This is a trap. This is why Devon was sent here." I blink back the tears. I was so stupid.
'Fuck!" Nyx snaps. 'That's what they have wanted us to do all along.' She was annoyed to have not figured it out. Her pacing in my mind was not helping at all. She hadn't been there until the very end. She hadn't heard all of our chats.
"His plan is better than we thought." Alpha Dane mutters. He loops the desk and me, scratching through the stubble on his chin. He pauses and leans on the table with his knuckles. "What if you accept it anyway?"
"I don't... I don't follow."
"As an Alpha, I can block out my pack's voices. Choosing who I listen to, choosing who I link. The plan was for you to link all of them. What if you start singling them out? One at a time. Getting inside their heads to learn the information we need?" "And what if it doesn't work?"
'He's right.' Nyx mutters. 'I can help with the block.'
Alpha Dane stares at me, waiting for my response.
I sigh because neither of them is going to like my answer. "We find another way."
"Neah..." Alpha Dane starts
"I never wanted it, Alpha Dane. Maybe if I was raised differently, yes. But this.........I don't want to be a leader to them. I don't want them to be able to use it as a way to drag me back. And I don't want them to put their fucking seed in me!" I was practically yelling by the time I was done. Something that I don't do.
"N...."
"Don't!" I snap, storming from the office. I was furious and Nyx thankfully kept her mouth shut
Trudging over to the hospital, I hoped Raven would be around. I just needed someone else to talk to or maybe it was silence that I needed.
"Hey." She mutters without even looking up. "Dane said you might be heading this way. What's he done? He was very cryptic in the link." "He wants me to accept my role."
"As Luna?"
I hadn't even thought about that. "No, Alpha."
Her dark eyes snap up, locking with mine.
She presses her lips together and moves around the station she is leaning on. "There must be a reason."
I catch her up on the conversation with Alpha Dane and tell her about the girl.
"I had heard about the girl. Eric is bringing her by later. Thinks it will be good for me to do a check up on her."
"What should I do?" I was still so used to everyone having the answers.
to answer your question. You already know the answer."
"Neah, since you have been here, I have watched you gain confidence, little by little. You couldn't even step out in the snow." She laughs about it. "You killed a man the other day. And now, you have just made your way here from the pack house, alone. You don't need me My shoulders drop. "Do you think we can figure this out? "
"My brother hasn't let anything stop him before. If you have truly made up your mind. He will find a way. Plus Jenson is very skilled in the art of war. It might be worth speaking to him, he might be able to give you some advice."
"Alpha Dane doesn't want me to be alone with him."
She smiles and gestures around the empty hospital. "I can come."
She finds out where he is and quickly writes out a note telling people to link her if they need her and sticks it to the table.
"Where is he?" He had left when we were at Beta Eric's home talking to Jess.
"On duty."
I was not supposed to be going into the forest without Alpha Dane.
We are quiet as we slip into the forest. Raven ensures we are nowhere near the boundaries as we make our way through the trees and into the darkest parts of the forest. I had asked Nyx to keep Alpha Dane out of my head too. Just for now, so that I could think.
The scents were scattered among the trees, making it difficult to pick out individual people. The pack standing guard would change places constantly to help try and keep them alert and to confuse any of those that break through.
"Does Dane know that you are this far out?" Jenson asks as he drops down from a tree, landing in front of us.
"Why the hell are you up a tree?" Raven snaps.
"Taking a leaf out of Devon's book. If that was even his name. How can I help you?"
His dark eyes hover on me and it sends a shiver down my spine. It always made me nervous and in the moment, I was grateful that I was not alone with him.
"You wanted to speak to me?" He mutters, doing a quick scan of the grounds.
"Have... have you figured out a way of dealing with them?"
"Almost. Why? Do you have some information that could help?"
'Don't tell him.' Nyx mutters
"I...I just want it to be over." I see Raven give me an odd look. Thankfully she swallows her words.
"You came out here to ask me that?" He cocks an eyebrow at us. "You know we are all out here for you. My people are working their asses off to make sure no one gets in. They are so tired that they are starting to make mistakes." "Mistakes?" Raven quizzes
"It's been dealt with." He mutters, brushing it off. And by the way, he looked at me, I knew they had been punished.
"I didn't... I didn't ask for any of this."
He places his hands on my shoulders. Every muscle in my body clenched as he focused on my eyes. "Are you trying to get yourself into trouble, Neah?"
He slowly turns me around until I'm facing the direction we had come from. "Go back to the house!"
"If I accept my Alpha position, will that help?" I blurt out
His hands leave my shoulders and he moves around in front of me, a deep frown on his forehead. "I didn't think you wanted to?"
"I told Alpha Dane that I think it is what they are expecting." I sigh and look over to Raven who nods her head at me, wanting me to continue.
"I think it's a trap. I think that Devon was supposed to convince me to accept it. I think....." I groan. "Alpha Dane thinks I should link them, one at a time."
"No."
I was taken aback by his response. There was no pause or hesitation, just a flat out answer.
"No, that's not what they are expecting, or no, Dane is wrong?" Raven asks
"Both." He winks at me.
"I don't...I don't understand."
"Devon got in your head, Neah. But what he was doing was finding the lengths you will go to, to ignore the Alpha blood. It was a game, a test. I've seen it before. You are one of a kind, Neah. They know that and we know that too." "You think she should accept her role?" Raven asks
"That isn't for me to decide, what I am saying is if she does, it can work in our favor."
"You want me to link them?"
"Oh no. I think it will piss Cassandra off. I think it will draw the bitch and the other fuckers out, because whether they like it or not, they will know who the Alpha is and that's what I'm counting on. no need for linking them." "Plan B." Raven mutters.
"Plan B." Jenson confirms
He had been hoping for this all along. "What's...what's plan B?"
Jenson smiles at me. "You."