“Reika you need to open the door, he is turning” my father told her calmly while I just wanted to break the door down. She looks over at him laying on the table.
She moves toward him. His claws are trying to cut the restraints. She then turns back and grabs a set of pliers.
“What was it called when Estella used to get her nails colored and the ends trimmed?” she asks the man who was glaring at her.
“Oh my wife gets those, it’s called a manicure” my father says like he was answering some trivia question and not telling her how to torture him. Reika looks at him, giving him a sadistic smile and giving him a nod.
I turn, staring at my father.
“What, that’s what it’s called?” He shrugs.
“Let’s give you one of those,” she says, grabbing the man’s hand and holding his finger, she clamps the pliers on it before reefing her hand back.
She pulled his claws from his nail bed on his right hand one by one. His face morphing in pain and his fangs protruded as he screamed. His other hand yanking on the restraints so hard he snaps it before reaching for her, she jumps back out of reach and I could hear her heart rate pick up.
“Okay Reika, I think it’s time you open this door” my father says, now starting to panic along with me.
“No!” She says looking down at the man trying to reach for her. She walks to the back of the room and grabs a small axe. Walking back she grabs his flailing arm trying to hit her before holding it down with one hand. She then lifts the axe. I watch as she grits her teeth before bringing it down on his wrist.
The crunch of his bone snapping as the axe cut through it was sickening, the man screams before thrashing, snapping his leg restraints.
Reika jumps back as he gets up, only to fall forgetting he was missing a foot.
I feel Brax pressing forward worriedly, fur sprouting on my arms as my father tries to pull on the door handle to get it open.
“You pathetic little bitch, I am going to kill you” he screams at her using the table to pull himself up.
I watched in horror, as his claws grow back making my father and I both look at each other. His entire body tensed as he used the table to keep distance between him and Reika.
“He is like her,” I gasp when I see the burnt nub start rippling, the skin moving as he regrows his foot right in front of us. He laughs looking over at us before shaking his foot and wiggling his toes, standing up.
“How is that possible?” My father gasps.
“Lizard and starfish DNA, it’s amazing the things we have created, the splicing of cells and DNA,” he laughs. He walks around the table and Reika moves circling around it, her eyes trained on him.
“You should be thanking me 46, you wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for me. I made you brilliant. Made you the perfect predator,” he says his claws slipping out and scratching the steel table.
“Oh well, I suppose I will have to use the pups to build my army,” he says, and she stops.
“Pups? You won’t be leaving this place alive” She asks. He nods his head with a cruel smile on his face, as he watches her.
“You didn’t think Lucy was the only one did you? No, we have a facility built entirely for them and our experiments. You were patient zero, our first guinea pig if you will. The first of hundreds, thanks to Kade’s brilliant mind,” he says, drawing closer.
“Where are they?” She screams and I see something dangerous flicker behind her eyes. Her canines protruded and pushed past her lips.
“You will never find them, but rest assured they aren’t weak like our Lucy, no they are stronger. Stronger because I figured out the missing link in their DNA….. Pain, the more pain we inflict the more it awakens the Lycan genes, morphing it and twisting it before we force the shift, I stuffed up with Lucy. I was too kind to her, I struggled with the idea of killing her. Exactly how does one kill their own child? But I knew it was for the greater good, if she survived the shift”.
My father rams the door with his shoulder, but I couldn’t move my eyes from her, I was frozen in fear for her.
“Your DNA holds the key to curing so many of the world’s diseases” he laughs, picking up his hand off the steel table and tossing it over his shoulder.
“I had hope for Lucy, that she would live and be as marvelous as you. Don’t you think she has my eyes, the resemblance is uncanny, I must say,” he says with a grin lighting up his face at Reika horrified one.
“What,” Reika gasps.
“You didn’t really think that idiot was her father. No, we just had to convince you. Give you a reason to do what we wanted. Estella said it would work, I didn’t believe you would be so gullible to believe he was your mate, but you proved me wrong. He sucked you in good. When he wasn’t convincing you he was your mate, he was helping us plot our next experiment. Then I came up with the idea of impregnating you. To see if we could create a biological version of yourself. So who better to father the child than the man who had the idea,” he says, his voice mocking as she tried to piece together everything he was saying to her.
She was so absorbed in trying to take in what he told her that she didn’t see him lunge at her till the last second, he dived across the table. Knocking her to the ground. They struggled and I felt Brax shove forward forcing the shift before backing up. He charges at the bullet proof glass, hitting it full force only to bounce off it.
I feel his shoulder crack before he shakes it off before hitting it again when we hear a crack. The glass had the tiniest hairline crack when he backed up again looking at it.
My father tried to kick the door in as Reika tried to fight him off. She manages to get her feet under him, shoving him off, though her face was carved up by his claws and part of her arm torn into from his teeth.