“Any more of that shit and you go back to Arial’s,” Ryker tells him.
“Fine, fine.” He says and Ryker pulls me from the bathroom.
“You don’t shower with 13-year-old boys,” he says. I didn’t see a problem with it, it’s just skin. I tried to understand and was going to ask my wolf when I felt she was asleep.
“I don’t understand,” I tell him.
“It’s creepy, you’re older and female,” He made no sense. I showered with him and he is male.
“But I showered with you,” I told him.
“It’s different, I’m your mate,” he says, pulling me toward his room.
“But you’re older than me,” I tell him, still not understanding his problem.
“Yes but you’re not jailbait, you’re an adult. If I hopped in the shower with you and you were their age, you know what never mind. Just no showering with them,” he says before opening his bathroom door. He gestures to it with his hand.
“By the way, your wolf is creepy as fuck, you need to do something with her. Somethings severely off about her,” he says.
“She doesn’t like you,” I tell him.
“I know she doesn’t, but something isn’t right with her. I have rung my aunty she is going to come visit you, help you control her.”
“I don’t need to control her, is this because I am Alpha’s daughter? Tyson said my Alpha is bad,” I tell him, removing my clothes and dumping them on the floor.
“Huh, I don’t-“
“She is Kade’s daughter,” Tyson says from the bedroom door, making me look at him. Ryker steps in front of me and I peer around him looking at Tyson who rolls his eyes folding his arms over his chest.
“Seriously, Ryker seeing her naked is like looking at a piece of furniture, I have seen her naked that many times now. I am not interested that way in your mate.”
“Out, I will come to speak with you in a minute,” Ryker tells him blocking me from his view.
“I need money for school,” Tyson told him.
“My wallet is in the kitchen,” Ryker tells him and I see Tyson nod before closing the bedroom door. Ryker turns around looking down at me, his jaw tight.
“You’re Kade Barclay’s daughter?” He asks and I step back not liking his tone of voice.
“No, I am Alpha’s daughter I think.”
“Your Alpha is Kade,” Ryker asks, stepping past me and turning the shower on before holding his hand under the water and checking the temperature.
“No, that’s just what one of the humans called him once,” I tell him and he dries his hand on his pants.
“You can get in,” he says, looking down at me, but he looked tense, his eyes flickering dangerously and I was on the verge of forcing 46 awake. I step in the shower watching him, he leans on the sink basin and seems to be thinking about something.
“I should go,” he says suddenly before walking out and closing the door behind him. I feel my body relax with him gone and wash. The water soothes my aching muscles. When I am done, I grab a towel wrapping it around myself before getting out. I wiped the mirror looking in it, it always felt odd looking at my reflection. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I somehow looked familiar like I had seen the image before as my eyes stared back at me, a strange sense of deja vu washing over me only slightly different.
“We look like Amanda,” My wolf says, watching us in the mirror.
“Is that why?” I ask her. I could barely remember what Amanda looked like, though I could somewhat remember her voice even though that had become distorted over the years, morphing into some fuzzy recollection.
“Enough staring Reika, get dressed,” my wolf says wandering off to go back to sleep.
Shrugging the feeling off I walk into the bedroom and grab some shorts and a shirt from the hanger. It fit like a dress, but I wasn’t wearing those horrid tight clothes that felt like itchy skin. Walking out I go back to Tyson and Ace’s room.
Ace was digging through a drawer looking for something. “What are you looking for?” I ask him.
“Beanie to cover this disaster,” he says pointing to his head. He finds a green one before putting it on his head. He grabs his school bag before pecking my cheek. “Later Reika,” he says walking out of the room. I hear them both leave and hear Ryker scolding them but pay no attention, instead climbing under the covers of Tyson’s bed.
I remained in the room for most of the day snuggled underneath the blankets, I could hear him walking around the house but paid him no attention, refusing to leave the room when suddenly the door opened. Ryker stepped in and I popped my head out from under the blanket where I was nice and warm to look at him. 46 comes forward alert and fully awake as he steps into the room.
“I don’t like you being in their room,” he says, and I sit up moving up the bed as he sits on the end of it.
“I know I fucked up Reika, but-“
“But nothing, I am leaving soon. I have to go home,” I tell him. He growls and I feel 46 become agitated.
“You’re not leaving Reika this is your home now.”
“I have to go home, I have to get her back,” I tell him.
“Get who back?”
“They promised to give her back and I promised my wolf I would go back.”
“Are you doing this because you want to or because your wolf wants to?” He asks, making me think.
“We can stay a little longer but not forever Reika, you promised Amanda,” My wolf tells me.
“Both,” I answered. I didn’t want to go, but I promised Amanda I would get her back.
“I’m not letting you leave, you belong here with me,” Ryker says before standing.
“You think I care what you want? You fucking tortured me, you’re sick in the head. No way am I going to be with you Ryker, not after what you did,” I tell him.
“You can deny me all you want, but that doesn’t mean I am letting you leave. You are mine and you will remain here,” I feel 46 press beneath my skin, I let the veil drop letting her shove forward and take control if she needs to. She paces in my head and I was a little shocked by the aggression that hit me from her. I knew she didn’t like him but this was something else, something primal and on a deeper level scared me.
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