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Neah
meant it.
It was weird to hear her pleading with me.
I had heard it a little bit at her house.
Yet now she is full of desperation, a million miles away from how she introduced herself to me.
Maybe because she's surprised to learn the truth about her friend. Maybe because she genuinely 'We could just kill her.
' Nyx grins gleefully. 'She keeps asking.
And she was prepared to destroy our life.
It only seems fair.'
Blair drops her gaze when I don't answer her question. "I get it, you're torturing me. Never letting me know when the final blow is going to come so I live in fear, waiting." She rocks in her chair. "It's a weird feeling, fear."
"You get used to it." I mutter back. It was a lie, you never get used to it.
She mulls over my words, "Jenson told me everything that happened to you, before Dane"
"I told you too, well some of it, but it didn't change anything, did it?! Even when you learned how bad things were for me, it didn't change how you felt. It didn't change what you thought I deserved or what you deserved. Only now, when you have lost your identity, you claim to have changed." She knew everything and yet she had still been prepared to ruin my life when she barely knew me. A half sister and she didn't even bother wanting to get to know me. Her eyes flick up to me. "You are the Alpha."
Nyx snorts, 'How can she be acting like she didn't know? That was her goal.'
"I.." She pauses for several heartbeats. "It's a bitter pill to swallow. But what I have learned is that I am not the person I once was. Everything hurts. Everything is different. I'm not who I was and I know you don't believe that." "You're right, I don't."
She sighs. "Maybe this was always the plan for me. You know, payback for the trouble I have caused and inflicted. Maybe this is punishment for Jenson. For you, for everything." She laughs to herself and shakes her head.
"There is always someone worse." They had both said that.
Blair and Samara. "Who has said that to you?"
"Cooper." She mutters. "The night he took me, maybe after. I think he was making a point, because he had outsmarted me. Though it seems it's not hard to do that anymore." Her brows knit together. "You can link him, right?"
I stare back at her, trying to decide if it's worth telling her what I know.
"Because he is a Lycan?" She continues. "You can link all Lycans. I heard it when you asked everyone to come here. So you must be able to link him and Samara if she is really a Lycan." 'Don't tell her, she doesn't need to know.' Nyx murmurs
"Unless you can't." Blair mutters, "But that would be impossible. I can hear you, I know Damien can and Mallory must have linked you. My mother and step father heard your request."
"I had a connection to Cooper. I check everyone when they arrive here." I tell her and Nyx groans. "But the connection seems to have evaporated. There isn't one for Samara either. Brax thinks they are working with a Witch. A powerful one that is able to sever the connection to me."
"Witches won't work with Lycan's. They will work with Wolves but not Lycans." Blair tells me. "Look, I may not be of use in the physical sense, not anymore, but I still have a lot of knowledge about Lycans. Knowledge that you might now have." ""A Witch worked with our father." I mutter
"Don't...." She starts as her eyes hover on mine. A small crinkle appears on her forehead. "You were bound as a child."
"Which could only be done by the help of a strong Witch because I already had my Lycan. Think about it, Blair. Cooper has the ability to take people's Wolves and Lycans away. He has been able to give Wolves something to completely hide their scent. Samara was able to conceal her identity."
'Tread carefully.' Nyx warns.
'I am.'
"I never saw any Witches in the prison. At least I don't think so. I wouldn't be able to tell even if there were." She shrugs her shoulders at me.
"But there were women, 'nurses' Cooper called them. They weren't. They would bring food, water, change the drip bags and escort you to the showers. They never spoke and they always looked as if they were in some kind of trance. On autopilot."
"Wolves and Lycans?"
"I don't know. I can't tell anymore. They could be like me for all I know. People he has punished."
She was cooperating a little too well. She could be telling the truth or she could be buying time. What if Cooper had given her something as well so that she could mask her identity?
'Damien.' I link him. I knew he wasn't far away. 'Come and take her to the dungeons and bring me Samara.'
Damien appears and doesn't say anything. He unbinds Blair from the chair but quickly ties her hands back together.
"Where are we going? Where are you taking me?" She demands
"For a walk."
"Are you going to kill me?"
"I guess you will find out." He winks at me as he forces her from the office.
I blow out my cheeks when I'm alone. It doesn't get easier. The desire to kill her on the spot is so tempting. To cut her open and watch her intestines fall out is a picture I can't get out of my head. 'Well?' I mutter to Nyx while we wait.
'I am as unsure as you are. She is sharing, but it could be intentional. We should have kept Brax here.'
'Brax has probably gone to see Maddie.'
"Please don't...please...I've done nothing wrong." Samara's voice scratches at my ear drums as Damien tells her to be quiet.
""Just move." Damien snaps.
"I've done nothing. Why does know one believe me? I told Neah what I know. This is cruel."
He pushes the office door open and her mouth closes the moment she sees me. Her hands are bound just like Blair's, though she looked a little rougher, maybe she had been tossed around a bit.
He tries to put her in the chair but she fights back against him. Damien laughs, pressing both hands on her shoulders and forcing her down. One by one, he binds her wrists to the chair as she growls at him. Her scent was definitely making a comeback and still, there is no connection to her.
Her grey eyes lock on mine. "Why are you doing this? We haven't done anything."
"No?"
"We came here to tell you about Cooper so why are you treating us like this?"
Was she unaware that we could scent her? She had to be or she wouldn't keep up this act.
Damien rolls his eyes at her.
"What did you hope to achieve by telling me about him?"
"That you would do something about him. He can't be allowed to get away with it. We don't deserve this. We don't deserve to lose our Lycans!"
Nyx laughs, 'She really has no clue we can scent her, does she!'
'Maybe not, but if we can scent her, there is a good chance she can shift.' I reply. 'Those ropes won't keep her in that chair.'
"Blair showed you where our pack was?"
"Yes. She told me you are her half sister. I couldn't believe my luck that you are the Alpha. I've been trying to find ways to bring Cooper down for years."
"It does sound like you are lucky." The intensity of my need to kill was growing by the second.
"You were hidden for so long." She mutters, avoiding eye contact.
"I wasn't hiding."
"I didn't mean it like that." She shakes her head, trying to get the blonde strand to move off of her face. "I mean you were hidden away for so long and then this happened to me and then I had no way of finding you, not until Blair." "And it just so happened that Blair is my half sister." Hearing myself call Blair my half sister out loud made my insides crawl
"Right! Pure luck." She smiles
"Not a setup at all."
I watch the color drain from her skin. "I don't know what you are talking about. How can it be a setup? Why would I give up losing my Lycan?"
'She keeps playing the same tune.' Nyx growls
Damien watches me from behind Samara. Maybe he knew I was seconds away from ripping out her heart. But maybe, just maybe, we could use her to lure out Cooper.