Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

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Chapter

Thirty Seven

Chapter Thirty Seven

One of the council members, who I believed was named Austin, was the first to speak up.

The Alpha is as alone as he can be," he said, eyeing their soldiers.

"Leave us." Alexander said, and for a moment no one made a move. "Now!"

"Are-are you sure?" another of the advisors asked.

"They are my guests; it will be rude of me not to hear them out." Alexander said, and the woman smiled. The smile might have seemed a little flirty, but she was old enough to be my mother, so maybe that was just me looking too deep into things.

Our soldiers left first, followed by the council of advisors, who seemed to be everywhere Alexander was.

The woman's eyes turned to me.

"She is my Luna; she stays." Alexander says, and the woman only nods.

One of the men in blue passed the woman a wooden box, she took out a key and unlocked it.

"May I?" she asked, and Alexander nodded.

forward, up the stairs, until she was only a few feet away from

the box

hand which must have once belonged to a living

to show me?" Alexander asked. I thought he would be furious-this felt like some kind of insult, but, on the contrary, he

just a

can see that."

to find something other than a corpse's

said, "Have you

box. "This bite mark is not from a werewolf or a demon; it's from

have come to bring to you an issue of dire need. Three of our soldiers had been sent outside our walls, and their corpses were returned-at least what remained of them. We had sent ten more soldiers to investigate what happened to the three; only

is still under care-he won't make it, but we were able to discover the truth. The

vampires?" I asked, and for a

they have to the myth are that both are dead creatures. In

creature is far from that; they are like walking corpses, but with no eyes. While vampires feed on blood, they feed on flesh. They don't think, they don't feel, they don't see. They smell-they can detect life by the scent, and they feed on anything with a beating heart.

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they've never made it this close. I fear it's a matter of time,

they've been away for ages; let's hope they

at our very own front doors? We have to act now and act

don't have

turned to Alexander. "We cannot just cancel what she had said; she saw something, and that's

into the dark depths of

spoken no