Tyson and Ace pop their head phones in their ears before looking at their phones and I start the car to go on the long drive.
The drive took forever as it always does travelling that far. Reika fell asleep and I was nearly tempted to turn around and take her home. I didn’t want to bring her to this place, bring her back to the prison that entrapped her. I should have brought him back with me, but how was I to know he was the same one that killed Lucy?
Pulling up, Jacob was out the front having a smoke. I stop the car, hopping out of the car and carefully closing the door not wanting to wake her.
“Alpha!” Jacobs says standing straighter.
“Is he still alive?” I ask and he nods.
“Your father is in there with him,” he tells me .
“My father is still here?”
“Yeah been trying to get information from him we can’t find one of the places listed like it was moved recently”
“What about the other facilities?”
“Your demon friend took care of them with Alpha Tate” I nod about to ask another question when I hear the car door slam behind me. Tyson hopped out and I wanted to slap him because he woke up Reika.
Jacob notices her and stiffens, staring at her as she hops out. She looks around sniffing the air, the feeling through the bond was fearful. She was scared of this place.
“Reika” I called her and she looked at me before rushing to my side. I wrap my arm around her tugging her closer and she looks at Jacob who was still as a statue.
“Luna,” he says to her and she looks up at me.
“You’re my Luna, because you’re my mate, it’s a sign of respect, his name is Jacob” I explain to her and her brows furrow, not understanding. She looks him up and down.
“I’m sorry about putting you in the cells” he blurts out nervously. She shrugs looking past him to the door. Tyson drops a hand on her shoulder and she looks at him before walking toward the open door leading inside.
“Come inside when you’re done,” I tell him and he nods.
“Is she alright?” He asks, looking at Reika who was staring through the open door.
“I hope so,” I tell him, walking over to her. I grab her hand, bringing it to my lips and kissing her knuckles.
“You don’t have to do this, I can do it if you want,” I tell her and she shakes her head.
“No, I want to make him scream,” she says. Before swallowing her fear and walking in. She looks around curiously before stopping at one of the labs. She walks in looking at all the vials. Tyson and Ace too were looking around when Reika called Tyson over.
“What are these?” She asks him, picking up some of the vials. He looks at them.
“Different diseases,” he says reading the labels. I looked over her shoulder and she had one in her hand that read Marburg virus. Reading some more I saw Ebola, Rabies and all different diseases making me wonder if any of these had been tested on her, the thought sickened me.
She walks to another cabinet opening it. This one had different types of poisons in it and chemicals. We watch her as she wanders around touching and picking things up before setting them back down, Tyson reading different labels to her.
“I want to see him,” she says looking up at me and I nod before showing her where the basement was. We walk down stairs and she freezes on the bottom step making me run into her. I reached out grabbing the railing and her before she stumbled forward.
I could feel her heart pounding against my hand so hard I was surprised it didn’t leap out of her chest.
She still didn’t move a muscle, her eyes trained on the cell she was kept prisoner in.
“What’s wrong,” Tyson mind links me, stuck behind me on the steps with Ace.
“Just give her a sec” I mindlink back. She was frozen completely rooted to the spot unmoving.
“I am right behind you, no one will touch you with me here, you won’t be locked back up,” I tell her, leaning down and running my nose down her cheek. Heart rate slows but she still doesn’t let go of my arm around her chest where I grabbed her.
My father comes out of one of the cells at the back and she finally takes a breath of air regaining herself and stepping forward and letting me off the stairs and Tyson and Ace walk down as well.
“Ryker?” My father asks, staring in disbelief, that I would bring her back here.
“You’re safe with us,” I tell her, kissing her ear and she lets go of my arm. Tyson wanders off and I see Reika walk off out of the corner of my eye.
“You sure that’s wise bringing her back here?” My father asks, watching her as she steps into her old cell.
“Honestly I don’t know, but she wants him,” I tell him looking at the cell my father came out of.
“Is she going to let her wolf have him?” He says with a nod.
“No, she is sedated,” I tell him and his head snaps up at me.
“Ryker?”
“I know but she is pissed off with her wolf. I will fill you in later”
“You do realize you may have to kill him, she is childlike, you really think she has it in her to kill someone?”
“If she can’t do it I will,” I tell him, looking up and toward the cell only she wasn’t there.
“Reika?” I call out to her when I hear a door click shut. The cell door where our prisoner was. Tyson runs to open it when she turns, jamming a chair under the handle. I raced over to her tapping on the door.
“Open it Reika you shouldn’t be in there by yourself ,” I tell her worried about the man because he was unrestrained and could attack her.
“Reika, open the door now,” I tell her.
“46 what pleasant surprise,” The man says and she turns to face him. I try to open the door but it doesn’t budge.
“You healed him?” I ask my father when I see him get up off the floor no injuries present.
“Yes just before you got here, you should have given me warning” my father says as I look in, panicked as he approaches her. She was observing him, not moving but I could feel her anger and I watched her fingers twitch.