I start swimming back toward the stairs leading out, trying not to splash her. my entire body becoming weaker. I had spent way too much time in the water, my eyes blurring as I try to see where to go. My breathing got worse, as I started coughing. I could taste the metallic liquid of my blood as it stained the water in front of me red.
I grip the railing, reaching out for it before using it to lead me to the stairs, and to stop myself slipping under the water. I crawl up the steps before slumping my top half just out of water. She climbs off my shoulders just before I collapse.
"Ryker!" I hear her cry out, tugging on my face and lifting it out of the water.
"Follow the stairs," I gasp, more blood choking me as it gets trapped in my throat. My head is spinning, when I feel her step in the water. She screams before I feel her tiny hands grabbing my shirt, trying to pull me up the steps.
"Please! Just a few more steps." she cries. She grabs my hand off the railing tugging on it.
"You have to help!" she cries, and I muster the little strength I have left. Pushing off the steps as she pulls my body from the water, as she falls backwards on the steps.
"You look so much like her," I tell her. She peers down at me before pulling my top lip up.
"You're like me." she says, and I feel my head roll to the side. My eyes growing heavy as they close, before I feel skin press to my fangs. Making my eyes flutter open as it scrapes across my canines. Blood flooding into my mouth. I grab it while drinking from the source. My senses overtaking as blood rushes into my mouth.
I could feel myself growing stronger as I drank greedily. Feel my wounds healing, when I hear a cry making my eyes open to see her face peering over me.
I lift my legs pulling them from the water and sitting up.
She jerks her wrist away from me, watching me warily and I take a deep breath. Trying to fight the bloodlust, urging me to kill her. I look up the stairs. I reached for her, my arms still burning but most of them healed. Yet I still felt weak, when I saw Aamon still stuck on the steps.
I get up grabbing Lucy's hand, pulling her up the steps toward him. I grab his arm tossing it over shoulder and Lucy tries lifting him. Managing to help hold him up against me as we step into the corridor, yet all I saw was darkness. The door was shut, and the lights out. I place him on the bottom of the steps before racing up them, and trying to pry the door open. I bang on it.
"We can't open it!" I just make out through the door. "Fuck!" I cuss before realizing Lucy was with me. I race back down and nearly trip over Aamon on the steps. I slap him, and, nothing.
I shake him trying to rouse him awake. "Come on buddy!" I tell him, slapping his face.
He groans yet doesn't wake, when an idea crosses my mind. He had devils bane in his system. I just had to remove it. I sink my fangs into him and nearly throw up at the vile taste of burnt hair, as it flooded my mouth. Yet I force it down, not only needing his disgusting blood. But also needing to rid him of the devil's bane. He jerks before gripping my face and shoving me off.
"Thank the goddess! You taste like shit by the way." I tell him while he glares at me.
He looks around, his eyes landing on Lucy who sniffs the air, "You found her!" he gasps.
"And you fucking fed on me? You sicko!" he says wiping his neck just as I hear screaming, and a loud bang above us.
I race up the steps, to hear loud banging and crashing before hearing her voice. I hear a feral growl, I recognize as Ace's wolf, before it hits the glass.
"You need to mist us out of here!" I tell Aamon.
"I'm not sure I can. I need energy to feed off," he says getting his feet.
"Can't you like click your fingers or something?"
"No! But I can use you." he says, his eyes flicking onyx.
"Are you fucking nuts?! I don't want you using your lust shit on me!" I tell him when I hear her scream before hearing Tate's voice.
"Reika, fucking shift! You need to shift!" my heart skips a beat and I race toward Aamon.
"Lucy come here. Hang onto Aamon's hand," I tell her, and she races up the steps before hesitantly grabbing Aamon's hand. She crinkles her nose at his scent when Aamon locks his hands onto the side of my face. "Sorry bro. But the other way won't work. I gotta touch ya," he says, and I near throw up when I feel his gross manly lips press to mine.
I feel him pull on my energy, arousal flooding me as much as I fought against his charms. The room zapping and the smell of burnt almonds wrapping around us, before I feel my body zapped with energy. Within a blink of an eye, I find myself in the cell. Tate, Drake and Ace staring out the glass when Ace's black wolf looks back before doing a double take, and I shove Aamon away.
Ace backs up before hitting the glass, and I scream when I see Danika smash Reika into the desk, breaking it.
Brax flying forward and smashing through the veil at the sight of our mate being attacked by our other mate. Aamon shakes his head, like he too couldn't believe what he was seeing. As I slam against the glass before bouncing off it and being thrown backwards. I get to my feet when the entire building starts rumbling. Danika stops her advance on Reika. And I see Reika get to her feet on shaky legs, blood pouring from her. Lucy screams, finally noticing the woman is her mother.