Completely out of her mind as she pummels me, knocking me to the ground. Brax pressing beneath my skin but refusing to do anything as he whimpers in my head.
“Brax do something” I scream for him as she bites into my neck. Her canines pierce my shoulder and he finally shifts, forcing her off us as our bones snap. Thank God for her wolf being dormant because I think she would have actually killed us; she was completely blinded by her agony.
Brax growls at her, forcing her to submit and she whimpers, her eyes blazing back at us as he corners her. Reika drops to the floor, our Alpha Aura rolling over her but Brax whimpers not wanting to hurt her. She cringed away as he approached before he licked her face, cleaning her tear-stained cheeks. She clutched his fur and he whined loudly, her hands pulling on his fur, he pressed his face in her neck and pressed his weight on her.
She breaks, the flood gates opening, and she breaks, sobbing into his fur, clutching his neck. I feel him force us to shift back and he whimpers in my head. Her nails dig into my flesh, and I wrap my legs around her and my arms and pull her to me.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry” I whisper, kissing her hair when the door opens. Tyson and Ace busting in before freezing at my upturned office, I shake my head, and they back out of the room. I could hear them waiting in the hall in case I needed them.
I just hold her till she cries herself out, eventually, her crying and wailing turned to hiccupped sobs before she succumbs, eventually passing out in exhaustion and I was too tired to even get up so instead, I rested my head against the wall not wanting to wake her, we both fell asleep where we were.
R eika
Waking to the feel of movement, Ryker stood up and started walking. Opening my eyes they felt like sandpaper. My skin stinging and dry from the salt in my tears.
I turned my face into his neck, inhaling his scent, I didn’t want to cry anymore. Tears won’t help me, nothing will anymore. I felt nothing, numbness is what I felt, and I was grateful. I could Live with numbness.
“You’re awake,” Ryker says and I nod my head that was on his shoulder. My arms and legs tightening around his body.
“Reika?” I hear her soft voice in my head, the voice that used to be my calm, but now I felt nothing but anger toward her, nothing but betrayal. Ryker said she did it to protect me, but how is taking the only thing that mattered to me, from me, taking my memories of her, making me forget what she meant to me, protecting me.
“Reika, I’m sorry,” she says.
“Sorry isn’t good enough Amanda,” I say not realizing I said it out loud. Amanda whimpers trying to shove through the barrier to come forward.
Ryker stops pausing for a second.
“Your wolf is back?” He asks before continuing to walk toward the bedroom.
“I want her gone,” I tell him. He stops completely placing me on my feet next to his bed.
“You need your wolf, Reika she is part of you,” he says cupping my face with his large hands, they were warm and made my face tingle.
“She lied, she was the only one I could trust, and she lied to me,” I told him. I feel Amanda pushing against the barrier between us trying to force her way forward. I push back, refusing to give her even the slightest piece of control.
“Yes she lied but you can’t just lock her up in your head, imprison her like they did to you”
“She is no better, she locked me up too, Ryker, she held the control but not anymore,” I tell him.
“You don’t mean that, just hear me out,” he says rubbing my arms, tingles spreading from his touch.
“Please, Reika, listen to him,” Amanda begs, hitting the barrier, my head pounding from the force she was using just angering me more.
“What, now you’re on his side? You don’t get to change sides because he suddenly agrees with you,” I tell my wolf. I walk past Ryker rushing out the door and down the stairs. Ryker follows as I go to the kitchen looking for the sedatives they had been giving me.
“Just wait Reika,” he says as I pull the black bag off the fridge. I open it, ignoring him before pulling the vial and syringe out.
“You need your wolf,” Ryker says.
“I don’t need her,” I tell him, stabbing the needle in the vial.
“He is alive,” he says, making me stop.
“Who is?” I ask.
“The man from the video, the one who injected Lucy, he is still alive.”
I draw some of the liquid out while listening. My mind was already made up which just pushed Amanda more to try to get through.
“Reika, I will take you to him, just don’t do this,” he whispers, rubbing my arms. I ignore him when he suddenly snatches it off me and I spin around to face him, he puts his hands up backing away.
“I will let you kill him,” he says.
“I don’t need my wolf to kill him,” I tell him and he stops looking at the vial in his hand. I try to take it from him but he moves his hands back.
“Let me do it then, you will give yourself too much,” he says.
He squirts some back in, before pulling it out. “You don’t have to do this, let Amanda kill him, you really want to live with knowing you killed a person.”
“He isn’t a person, Ryker, he is a monster and he killed my daughter,” I tell him. He looks at me before rubbing his hand down his face. I touch his cheek and he leans into my touch.
“Fine,” he sighs before stabbing the needle in my arm. I feel Amanda try pushing forward her attempts growing weaker before I no longer feel her.
” I will take you tomorrow,” he says but I shake my head, knowing he is hoping I will change my mind and let Amanda do it, but I already had my mind set.
“No, I won’t change my mind, I want to go now,” I tell him heading for the front door.
Ryker follows before grabbing my arm.
“At least get dressed first, you only have my shirt on,” he says looking down at my bare legs.
He tugs me upstairs back to his room before rummaging in the walk-in. He brings some clothes out and I roll my eyes at the horrid grey pants. Why is everyone afraid of being naked? I wondered. Everyone preferring to feel itchy. I didn’t understand it.
I pull them on and he hands me some pink shoes. I stare at them and he grabs socks, placing them on my feet before slipping the shoes on. They felt weird and my toes feel squished.
“See better,” he says tugging my hand. I go to walk only to trip on these stupid feet strangling contraptions. Ryker grabs my arm, steadying me.
“Lift your feet” he chuckles.
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