Chapter 99
Chapter 99
I catch Neah suppressing a laugh.
“I am not a Vampire.” I mutter, irritated. “I am a Wolf and you are a Lycan.”
Her jaw hangs open and her head starts to shake. “No… no, you are wrong.” Her soft blue eyes flash to Neah, “Please help me.”
Her voice is all high and squeaky.
“I’m a Lycan too.” Neah whispers, her eyes locked with Jess.
“Your name is Neah, isn’t it?” Jess asks, sitting back down. “You are the one I was sent too.”
“Yes.”
“You did this to me?” The girl wasn’t shy about asking questions.
“No. But I can try to help you.” Neah looks over to me, sadness taking over. “The people that did this too you were cruel to me too. The only difference is I was born this way. They forced this life on you. That’s why you can’t go back to your family, Jess. You might hurt them in ways that you don’t think is imaginable. And trust me when I say this, you can’t control it. It will happen when you least expect it.”
She was talking about Devon and how she killed him.
“But….”
Neah reaches across the table, taking Jess’s hands in hers. “This is something I do know, Jess. We can keep you safe here. We can figure it out together and I will personally make them pay for what they have done to you.”
Jess pulls her hands back and runs them through her red hair. “I will never see my family again?”
Neah looks over to me. Her brow creased. She sighs before returning her gaze to Jess. “No.”
The tears fall thicker and faster. Sobs leave her lips as her shoulders judder. I felt sorry for her. Fifteen and thrown into a world she knows nothing about. Cassandra and Trey are sick and far more twisted than I am and that says a lot.
Jess stays with Eric. It’s the first house she had been taken to and we believed it made her feel a level of safety. Plus the boys would be home soon and that might make her feel even better knowing Eric was a father.
“Is this what’s going to happen?” Neah asks as we walk across the grounds. “Young, innocent kids.”
“Possibly.”
“I hate them.” She mutters
“I know. What is Nyx saying about all of this?”
Neah sticks her tongue in her cheek. Her eyes don’t quite meet mine
“Neah?”
“She isn’t really talking much.”
“But she has been close to the surface, I saw it tonight, when anger flooded your body.”
I was trying not to read her mind but when she bends down to untie her shoe laces to buy herself time. I give in.
“Can you do that?” I snap, frustrated that she hadn’t told me something so important.
She looks at me, a pink tinge creeping across her skin. “I don’t know. Nyx thinks I can but….”
“It would mean accepting your Alpha position.” I finish the sentence for her.
She frowns. No matter how many times it is brought up in conversation, she tries to change the subject
“What if I can, do you actually think it will make a difference? Trey and Cassnadra have a whole pack backing them.”
“There is only one way for us to find out. You have to accept who you are and then we can see if you can link them all.”
Her eyes are wide as she nibbles on her bottom lip. “I don’t want to be an Alpha.” It was the only thing she was consistently sure of. And she had made herself clear
“What if it’s temporary?”
“I don’t follow.”
“When they are all dead, you won’t need to be an Alpha. You can exist as you are right now, as my mate, and one day as the mother of my pups. You can leave that world behind. Let the breed end with you. If that’s what you want.”
“And Jess, you won’t kill her?.” She whispers, rolling with my idea.
“You and Jess.” I confirm, “And any other children.”
She puffs out her cheeks. “What… what do I need to do?”