Chapter 460
Chapter 460
Neah
“You left with Maddie and all that you left was a note.” I stare at him. “You come back and you say that you have figured out what was wrong with you, but you haven’t said what that is. Are you fixed Brax? Or are you going to deny it like everything else?”
“Okay, I get it, you are pissed!”
‘Understatement of the year!’ Nyx rolls her eyes
“I went home. That’s it. I went home hoping to find something and that brother of her’s” He points at the dungeon door, “Projected himself into my home and held a fucking kitchen knife to Madison’s throat. He somehow convinced her to inject something into me.”
“Maddie injected you?”
“At some point, yes. She doesn’t know when. She doesn’t even remember doing it.” He pulls a tiny black ball from his pocket and holds it up to the light for me to see, “Like I said, it has been dealt with.”
“What is it?”
“That is something I haven’t figured out yet. There’s nothing to it. It doesn’t do anything as I hold it. Yet when it hit the tray, it sounded like metal. But when it was inside of me, it was draining me. It was making me weaker and weaker.”
“Has she been forced to do that to others? What about her? Is that how she lost her abilities?”
He shakes his head at me. “I scanned her, there was nothing. Cooper is methodical.”
‘There has to be something.’ Nyx murmurs. ‘No one is perfect. Everyone slips at some point.’
“Are you sure Maddie is clean?” I ask
He nods at me. “He scares her. He makes her fidgety, nervous. She couldn’t even hold a conversation with me without her eyes scanning the room. It has unsettled her of how easily he has manipulated her.”
He looks me up and down. “Now are you going to tell me what you are planning?”
“I haven’t figured it all out yet.”
“Right.” I could hear the scepticism in his tone. “But it has something to do with Samara, doesn’t it?”
I don’t respond.
“I will take that as a clear sign that you don’t want to say anymore.” I watch him strut away just as Dane appears next to me.
He doesn’t speak, but his hand slips into mine and he tugs me in the direction of the forest.
“What happened with Emerson?” He asks when we are far enough in the trees that no one could see us. “I know you would have had a good reason. “Where is the body?”
“Damien dealt with it. I saw the blood on your fingers and asked him to find out who it was and to clear it up before anyone notices.”
“Emerson didn’t want me here or any of the Lycans. He made it very clear.”
“The hole in the tee is from him, right?” Dane queries
I glance down at my top. “His blade. Brax shot him.”
“Okay.” He sits on a fallen tree and reaches out for my hand. His brows dip as a small frown appears.
“Why did you bring me into the forest?”
“You need a moment. A moment you are not going to get while surrounded by other people.”
“I’m fine….”
“I didn’t say you’re not. Sometimes, the peace and quiet is exactly what is needed for everything to make sense.”
I sit on the tree next to him and feel
my body relax. The last couple of days had just been filled with
constant news and before there was really time to process one thing, something else was happening. I hadn’t really had time to think about the new pregnancy either,
“I need him dead.” I mutter quietly. “I can’t keep living like this.”
“We will find a way.” Dane replies. “There is always a way to take someone down.”
“I want to try something,” He waits
for me to expand. “He has lost Samara. I see it when I look at her. She was slow to see it, but now she does. She was disgusted that Cooper went after Kade.”
“You truly believe her?”
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“Frustratingly, yes.” I sigh, I wasn’t sure how he was going to take it. want Klaus to take Samara to him. I think both of them are the key to helping me kill him.”