Ace POV
Something was nagging at me the entire time I was patrolling. Jacob also felt something was off too. Just that eerie feeling like someone was watching us, something lurking in the shadows. No doubt Jamie would have had his men watching and I put the feeling down to that.
Shifting as the pack house comes into view, I walk up the steps not even bothering to put my shorts back on, needing a shower desperately to wash the night away. The house was quiet and I knew they were still asleep being it was so early. I check my phone quickly to see a message from Ryker asking if anything happened on patrol. I quickly answered, telling him it was uneventful before placing my phone back down and heading to the bathroom.
I showered quickly, exhaustion seeping into my bones but I was also nervous, should I go back to my room or go crash in Tyson’s? I knew what they did while I was on patrol. But did Lucy want me there with her, we still hadn’t cleared everything or asked her what she wanted. I know we have marked each other but doubt still crept into me about whether or not she truly forgave me for everything.
Walking down the hall toward the bedrooms, I hesitate deciding whether or not to go in there, knowing what I would find. They were in there together, would it be awkward to disturb that? I had so many questions running through my head.
“It’s our room, just go in there” Atticus growls at me, he just wanted to be near his mate. I wanted the same but knowing they were probably in there both naked I wasn’t sure whether it would be appropriate for me just to be climbing in bed beside her.
“Oh for the love god, open the door or I will ” Atticus snarls and I growl at him before reaching for the door handle and opening it. My room smells heavily of their scents, every inch of the room is drenched in their scents and I find it oddly comforting like it was supposed to smell this way. Even Tyson’s scent mingled with hers is oddly comforting. Stepping into the room, I find them tangled in each other. Lucy asleep with her head on Tyson’s chest, her leg over his waist. I move to my dresser and pull a pair of boxer shorts out and slip them on before moving to the otherside of Lucy.
Pulling the blanket back, I lay down excited for sleep when I rest my head back on my pillow suddenly assaulted with both the scents so strongly I jerked upright, grabbing my pillow and sniffing it. A growl escapes me when I can smell Lucy’s scent and her bodily fluids and not just hers, my nose raped by my brother’s scent. That mother fucker, I look over at Tyson sleeping peacefully before whacking him with the pillow as hard as I could, he jumps before I rip his pillow out from under his head, stealing it. Lucy also wakes when Tyson jumps and groans from the impact.
“What the fuck Tyson, what did you do to my pillow?” Lucy giggles, before closing her eyes and going back to sleep. Tyson looks around tiredly before he smirks, also closing his eyes and turning my pillow over before using it, not a care given..
“You owe me a new pillow” I tell him and smiles rolling as Lucy turns to face me and also drifts back off. I growled at him not wanting to know what he did with it. Laying back down and trying to go to sleep, pissed off about them fucking on my pillow, that was the only explanation for how her scent could be so strong on it. Lucy moves as Tyson tucks her against him. I sigh, unable to be mad, not that her arousal bothers me but knowing my brother probably had his nuts resting where my head goes makes me shiver in disgust. It takes me a good half an hour before I feel sleep trying to take me.
I close my eyes when suddenly the mindlink opens up and I groan praying to the Goddess to let me sleep and let the world end around me as long as I get some sleep. When I feel it is my brother though I know I can’t shove him out, not without him coming over and kicking the door down and dragging me out to deliver the ass whooping he would no doubt give me if I blocked him. Please don’t have to leave, I think to myself.
“What Ryker?” I ask, wanting to go to sleep.
“Is that anyway to speak to your king, what is up your ass?”
“King or not you’re my brother and interrupting my sleep”
“Still doesn’t explain your bad mood” He tosses back at me.
“Well if you must know I came home to find my pillow violated by Lucy and Tyson fucking on it”
“Argh no that’s disgusting, stop right there or I will remove your bloody tongue, I do not want to know what you pair are doing to my stepdaughter” He growls almost violently through the link.
“Well you wanted to know” I tell him and I could feel the smile creep on my face.
“Nothing about Lucy, keep that to yourself” He says and I could almost feel how disgusted he was with that over share of information.
“What’s up?”
“Nothing, but I was wondering if you could check Lucy’s phone for me because I am assuming she is asleep since it is only 3AM” Ryker says and I groan not wanting to get up but force myself.
“You assume right, want to know what she is wearing since I am about to violate her right to privacy by snooping on her phone” I tease, I think I have just found some knew ways to torture my brother, it just may get me killed but would be so worth it, his answering growl makes me chuckle.
” One word Ace, I mean it your tongue will go”
“Yeah whatever you won’t do it” I laugh at him.
“No you’re right, but I am sure Reika will if I tell her of your oversharing about her daughter” I go quiet, she would remove more than my tongue and then would feed it to me.
“Fine, what am I looking for?” I ask him and I could practically feel how smug he was knowing he won that one.
“See if she has any missed calls from Mitchell for me”
“ah why?” I ask looking for her phone. When I can’t find it, I look at Lucy knowing I will have to ask her where she put it. I shake her shoulder gently and she rolls her eyes fluttering open to look up at me.
“Where is your phone, Luce?” She mumbles, waving off in some direction.
“I can’t find it, how important is it because I don’t really want to force her awake?” I ask him,
“Just look for it, his mother said he rushed out of the house about an hour ago and he is blocking her out, she said he has been acting strange lately”
“Strange how?”
“She said he has been depressed and she is worried about him, that he barely sleeps or eats and hides in his room besides going to school, I did have a complaint the other day that he hadn’t been showing up for training either” I sigh before shaking her shoulder.
“Luce baby, I need your phone” I tell her and she mumbles something about her jacket and I let her fall back to sleep. Walking out of our room to the kitchen where I saw her jacket on the back of the stool. I rummage through her pockets and pull out her phone and turn the screen on.
Walking back to the bedroom, I grip her fingers so I don’t have to ask for her pw and press her finger to the back of the phone on the fingerprint panel . The phone unlocks and I lay down beside her.
“I got it and there are no missed calls, but why would he ring her when he can mindlink her, all our packs are linked now?” I tell Ryker.
“Doesn’t matter, he will come home eventually, hopefully his mother has calmed down”
“Ok so I can go to bed now that I am done invading Lucy’s privacy, she has a go at me you are taking the blame” I tell him, placing Lucy phone on the bedside table.
“Yes I will speak to you tomorrow, if Lucy hears from him let me know” Ryker says cutting the link off before I could reply. But now he told me I was finding it hard to go to sleep, Mitchell was her best friend and I was worried if something was going on with him how much it would affect her. She has enough going on without adding more stress to it.
Laying down I roll toward her, my hand resting on her naked hip and she moves closer to me, following the pull of the mate bond when she puts her face into my chest. I roll over onto my back pulling her on top of me and she snuggles against me, pressing her face into my neck. Tyson also moves with her chasing her in his sleep as he presses to my side tossing his arm over, his hand resting on her ass and back of her thigh.
I stifle a laugh, pay back is a bitch and I have no intention of waking him and letting him know he is pressing his face into my armpit, instead tucking him closer to really get his face in there while my other hand runs up and down her spine. I sigh relaxing while drowning in her scent when I hear purring. I look to my brother disgusted. He was getting his jollies off in his sleep about being tucked in my armpit and I was about to shove him away when I realized the noise was coming from Lucy.
The sound vibrating against my chest. The purring noise is not her normal one, not a vampiric growl which is menacing and usually induced by anger or hunger, but like a cat purring only deeper. It wasn’t her vampire side reacting like that but her wolf. The wolf she apparently doesn’t have, making me think of what Avery said as I let sleep take me.