Chapter 0436


    "Is he dead?" Neah whispers


    I point to Ryken to check Cooper while I check on us


    "Dead." Ryken mutters seconds after pressing his fingers to Cooper''s throat.


    "Double check." I mutter, pulling us''s shirt open to find his chest already healing. A sigh of relief escapes me. "He''s alive."


    "Are you sure?" Neah asks


    "One hundred percent." I watch his wounds knit together abnormally fast. Sometimes I forgot just how quick he could heal. It was almost as quick as


    me.


    "And this prick is definitely dead." Ryken tells me. "What the fuck was he ying at?"


    Hollow gasps rattle from us''s chest and he finally takes a deep breath. "He''s not ying or plotting, at least he wasn''t." us croaks. "He was only ever here to keep an eye on his sister. He had no ns for any of us. Except me."


    "But what about Maddie?" Neah presses


    "She was just in the wrong ce at the wrong time. He took advantage of the situation." His breath is still a little wheezy. My guess would be that Cooper managed to hit a lung. "Samara wanted ir toe here."


    "Why?"


    "That''s something I don''t know. I don''t even think he really knew."


    "That makes no sense. He let her out of the prison." Neah states


    "I don''t think he did. I think it was her." us coughs and spits out a bit of blood. "He talked about her being safer in the dungeon, but also said you lot would be safe with her in there. He said if she gets out it will be a bloodbath now she has her abilities. I thought he was controlling her, but I think it''s the other way around. Or maybe they were controlling each other over different things."


    "Brax would have seen the lies. She already fooled him once."


    "Not if the questions were specifically about Cooper and Cooper''s ns. She wouldn''t have known because they were never his, they were hers." He rolls onto his side and frowns as he stares at Coopere''s body.


    "She''s a Lycan. I can control her." Neah mutters


    I hold a hand up to Neah. "So he blocked her abilities to keep her safe? That''s why he hasn''t trieding for her. Samara is locked away, but he wanted to stay near just in case."


    "Not just for her." us coughs and spits out more blood


    "So in a fucked up way, he was trying to help?" Ryken scoffs


    "Until he realised we were mated." us


    now hers. "I feel so much better marked me." Content bene never


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    I nce over to Cooper. The de still remained in his eye and the


    wound on his abdomen continued to


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    bleed. But something we


    ''Damien, is Samara still in the dungeon?''


    ''Yes, Are you ready for her?''


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    quite


    ''No, there is a change of n. Is she okay? Or is she upset?''


    ''She''s angry. She knows my presence means something.''


    She would be upset if she had just felt her brother die. I nce back at a lifeless Cooper. Something seemed off.


    "Can you stand?" I mutter to us


    "I think so. Fuck. I don''t want to be stabbed in the chest again." He rubs the wound


    I offer him a hand and pull him to his feet as Neah throws her arms around his waist. Telling us how happy she was to see him.


    “Everyone, get on the other side of the gate. Ryken, Do you have a lighter or a match?"


    "I think so." He looks inside the little office by the gates and brings me a box of matches. “Am I missing something?"


    "Dealt with any Witches before?" I ask


    "Can''t say I have. Always taught to stay clear."


    "What''s happening?" Neah asks as I


    strike a match and watch the little orange me appear. I toss it at Cooper and itnds on his chest. He goes up in mes, igniting in a ball of orange fire.


    "It''s not him." us scowls, suddenly understanding what I was doing. "No it is not."