I follow him into the room and he hands me a shirt and some shorts. I dry myself before slipping them on. Ryker comes out in jeans and a black shirt rubbing his hair with the towel.
He grabs his socks and boots before sitting on the end of the bed, just as Tyson walks in.
“Where are they?”
“Outskirts of Avalon City.”
“Good, ring Aamon and have him meet me there.”
“Already did and sent him the coordinates,” Tyson says, his eyes darting to me. Ryker looks up at him and gives him a nod putting his other boot on.
He stands up before walking to the door only to stop and turn back around, he walks toward me and I wonder what he is doing when suddenly grabs my chin before kissing me so fast. I blinked and he was already moving away. I touch my lips wondering if I just imagined it. I look up at him.
“I won’t be long, hopefully,” he says before walking out. Tyson steps out of his way and I see Tyson with a silly grin on his face. He shakes his head with a small laugh.
“What?” I ask.
“Nothing but it’s good to see the mate bond finally working,” he says before holding his hand out.
“Come on, we will go watch a movie or something in the games room.”
Ryker
Walking downstairs I grab my wallet before walking outside just in time to see Damien’s black mustang pulling into the driveway. I walk over, opening the door before climbing in.
“I heard I have a sister I didn’t know about,” he says thoughtfully. I click my seatbelt in and he turns the car around speeding out of the driveway.
“Yes apparently you do,” I tell him, rummaging in my pocket for my smokes. I pull one out, lighting it and drawing back before winding the window down.
‘Where to, and give me one of those ” Damien says.
“Head toward Avalon City, and I thought Lily made you quit.”
“What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her, besides if you’re smoking in my car you can at least give me one,” he says holding his hand out. I pull another from the packet, lighting it before handing it to him.
He draws back on it. “Argh that’s better than sex,” he says, and I shake my head with a laugh.
“Don’t tell Lily I said that, I don’t get laid enough as it is.”
“So not an image I wanted in my head.”
“Wait till you have kids sex goes right out the window and now she is always too tired like it is some chore,” he says puffing away on his smoke.
‘Yeah somehow I don’t think that will happen for me, I can barely get your sister to touch me let alone sleep with me.”
“Well, you did cut her toes off.”
“Lily told you?” I ask, wondering if he would be upset. He shrugs before indicating around a roundabout.
“I get it, I do. You thought she hurt your family but did they really grow back?” He asks curiously and I nod.
“Freakiest shit, I have ever seen,” I tell him.
“Well hopefully we will get answers soon,” I get a text message and reach into my back pocket pulling my phone out.
Zane: Got a couple of humans, also found some records.
Ryker: Keep one alive will be there soon.
I texted him back.
“Everything good, you seem off?” Damien asks.
“Yeah nervous about what we will find, and Brax is down for the count.”
“You have no wolf?”
“No, I don’t need him, I can handle myself if need be. Reika wouldn’t let me sedate her.”
“So you sedated yourself?’ I nod flicking my smoke out the window. He shakes his head before sighing.
“So what is she like?” He asks curiously.
“I don’t know, it’s hard to explain, she is almost childlike in some ways. She has no memory of a lot of things her wolf endured.”
“Layla was the same, still does it sometimes when she becomes upset, blocks Lily out, and takes over. I have trouble telling them apart sometimes, it can’t be helped, though Layla is always more eager to let me in her pants,” he says shaking his head. I chuckle at his words, poor bloke was sex-deprived.
“Yeah but Lily and Layla are good now, I’m not so sure about Reika and Amanda. Her wolf has been through hell to protect her, but she is savage, instinctual, almost rabid, compared to Reika. Reika is quiet and more stand offish, her wolf however I am pretty sure will murder me in my sleep if given the chance, I will have to sleep with a towel wrapped around my throat to stop her from cutting it in my sleep,” I tell him.
“Her wolf will calm down now you have marked her, Layla did when I marked Lily.”
“Yeah but Layla wanted Lily marked, it was Lily who refused you. With Reika, it’s the opposite her wolf wants nothing to do with me.”
“That is odd, usually the wolf wants the bond,” Damien tells me. I nod in agreement. It took hours to get there, it was nearly early morning by the time we arrived. Following the directions of the GPS which I turned on when we started to get close.
Following an old beaten-down dirt track just off the highway near Avalon city, we pull up out the front of a huge single-level brick building. There were no signs, nothing. The place looked abandoned, and I could see Wolves standing on the perimeter around it. Getting out, I see Aamon standing near the door. He looks up as I hop out of the car, and he makes his way over to me with Zane and Tate.
“What did you find?”
“Ryker,” Aamon says, and I don’t like the tone of his voice as he grips my shoulder.
“What? What is it?” He doesn’t answer, instead looking to Tate.
“So is this where she was kept?” I ask, becoming annoyed with their silence.
“Yes, we know she was here.”
“Okay then let’s go.” I tell them walking through them toward the building when Tate grabs my arm.
“I don’t think you should go in there, we found some,”
“Found what?”
“They documented it all, there are videos of everything,” Aamon answers.
“Okay well, I need to see the videos, did you find her daughter?”
“She is dead Ryker,” Tate answers my question.
“No, she isn’t dead, her wolf said they promised to give her back to her if she did what they asked,” Tate shakes his head and I see him mindlink, probably to Drake.
“She died a month before we found Reika,” he says, and I feel my stomach drop. Damien makes a strange noise behind me, and I look at him. They may not know each other but she is his family.
“Show me,” I tell Tate who nods before walking toward the building and I follow after him.