The Alpha’s Contract
Chapter 0011

Dane

"Did anyone have a clue?" I demand as I watch my sleeping mate. She was out cold and likely would be for some time. Raven had gone as far as stitching her up once she was certain the tie had been severed and Neah's body had been pumped full of drugs.

'Someone's head is going to roll!' Aero growls

"No." Eric replies. "Surely if Neah was mated, she wouldn't have left Moonshine so easily."

"But she didn't though, did she?! She practically collapsed at the door."

"I thought you said that was because she had never left? You said a combination of fear and illness."

I turn around to see him leaning against the wall, studying me. He was the only one I had confided in, telling him what Aero had said about Neah being our mate.

"Maybe he was nearby." He shrugs his shoulders at me as my eyes shift to my sister.

She was staring into her coffee, trying to not draw attention to herself, but the silence told me she knew something. The girl barely stay silent for more than a few minutes "Spit it out!" I snap at her.

'Why the fuck is it always Raven?' Aero prowls around the back of my mind. I already knew he wanted to have it out with Raven's Wolf, Midnight

"I don't know anything." Raven keeps her eyes low

"Raven! I nearly killed her by kissing her because of this stupid fucking blood tie! A blood tie can only exist if she has a mate that is still alive."

"Okay, okay. You don't need to go all Alpha on me. She had a mate. All I know is that he rejected her."

"Are you certain?"

She nods her head.

"Did she accept?"

"I don't know. I'm sorry, talking about it made me think of Salem okay. I kind of went off talking about why he rejected me, okay! If I had known that was the reason for this, then I would have questioned her more." "Come on Dane, you know she is telling the truth." Eric mutters. He moves next to me and peers in through the window at Neah. "I'm more interested to know how she knew she was mated." "What?"

"You said she was bound, right?" Eric frowns

I hadn't even thought about it. I had been too wrapped up in the blood tie news. "She shouldn't have been able to scent him." I mutter, "How could she have known?"

Sitting by Neah's bedside, I watch her in silence, trying to choose the words I wanted to say. There was a lot of information to unpack, though I already knew it would be too much for her to handle at once.

In the bright lights of the hospital, she looked a little better, her skin wasn't as dull and her eyes no longer appeared so sunken.

Raven appears regularly to check her and to check the newly stitched wound. Each check up, she would apologise to me, telling me that she never meant to keep it a secret and that she hadn't thought much of it. Because in her words, who creates a blood tie when they have rejected their mate. Which just adds to the list of questions I have for Neah.

It's almost one in the morning before her eyes open.

She groans and tries to sit up, freezing when she sees me. "I'm sorry."

"What are you sorry for?"

Her blue eyes flash around the room. "I've caused problems. I didn't.... Ow." She holds a hand to her stomach and lies back down.

"Raven stitched you up. It's probably going to be uncomfortable for a little while."

She blinks back tears, "Am I in trouble?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"The pain came on so quickly."

"No Neah, I'm talking about your mate. Why didn't you tell me that you were already mated?"

She drags her teeth over her bottom lip as she closes her eyes. "He rejected me. He forced me to accept his rejection. He...." she hesitates as she peers though slits at me.