"Reika stop," she says but I couldn't, my vision turning red.
"Reika!," Amanda screams in my head in panic. I feel her force control and I don't resist letting her take over knowing I couldn't control it. My fangs leave his neck and he grabs my face. His eyes slightly glazed over and I felt Amanda withdraw, giving me back control.
"Ryker?" I ask in panic when I see him sway slightly.
"I'm fine, just give me a sec," he says leaning against me.
I run my fingers through his hair.
"Geez what got into you, he was telling you to stop!," Amanda snaps at me yet I didn't hear him, couldn't over my own desire to feed.
Ryker seems to regather himself.
"I'm fine Amanda, lay off her," Ryker says making me look at him.
"You heard her?" He nods before pecking my lips softly.
"Yes, Brax can hear her too now since last night," he says.
"Yeah, I finally figured out how to drop the barrier blocking us," Amanda says.
"Probably helped that you were drunk," she says. I smile knowing they could hear us and us them.
"I'm sorry" I told him.
"Not your fault, I forget you need blood too," he says, kissing me, and sucking my bottom lip in his mouth. I kiss him back and he groans gripping my hips.
When we hear the door downstairs burst open before hearing kids rush into the house.
"Everyone alive?" I hear Aria, Ryker's mother sing out from downstairs. Ryker looks to the bedroom before looking at me.
"Kids are here, how's your headache?"
"Gone now," I tell him hopping off his lap. I race to the bathroom and have the quickest shower, brushing my teeth before getting changed. When I came back to the room, Ryker was gone and the bedroom door was left open. I walk downstairs and can hear talking and laughing and a lot of mumbles.
Arial was face done on the table and looked like shit, Lana was sipping on a blood bag while making breakfast with Aria and Ryker I couldn't see.
"He is with the kids out back, on the swings," Aria says nodding toward the glass sliding door.
Hearing a noise behind me, I see Tyson walk out, sniffing the air before gagging and rushing out the back and hanging his head over the railing and puking.
"That's what you get you little shit, for stealing the other bottle," Arial calls after him lifting her head from the table.
"You look fine," she says before sniffing the air, "you fed on Ryker," she says wiggling her eyebrows at me.
"Leave her alone," Aria scolds her daughter.
"What? I was just saying," Arial says.
"Kids are out back if you want to see them" Lana says and I nod.
"Did they find the other facility yet?" I ask Aria.
"No, but they know we are looking for it. Drake sent scouts out last night but we are thinking they might be underground. We have checked everywhere else that's big enough to hold that many kids and go unnoticed but can't even pick up a scent anywhere," she says.
"We will find them Reika, these things just take time" Lana adds. I nod, not liking that I have to wait, but what other choice did we have?
Walking out the back, I see Ryker pushing the two girls on the swing. So I am assuming one must be Arial's daughter Macey.
Titus, Lana's son was on the slippery dip calling out for Ryker to watch him go down the slide.
"Wait buddy" I hear Ryker call out to him but he doesn't listen instead jumping and plonking on his butt. Ryker managed to grab him before he slid straight off the end alarmingly fast.
"The little one only," Ryker tells him, chucking the boy over his shoulder and going back to the swings. Titus climbs on his shoulder and holds his hair as he walks back to the girls.
"He will be a good father one day," Aria says walking out behind me. I nod at her words and she hands me a cup.
I sniff it to find it is coffee. Tyson was laying on the ground on his back looking very green next to the stairs leading down to the grass.
"Go help your brother wrangle them kids," Aria tells him. Nudging him with her foot.
"Mum!," Tyson groans.
"No, go get some sun on that head, you shouldn't have stole your sisters bottle last night"
" I didn't it was Ace"
"Didn't stop you from drinking it, did it?" She says, and he rolls on his side. His hair was starting to grow back but very slowly.
"Fine, oh and Ace spewed all through the bathroom," he says.
"Well, when you're done out here you can both go clean it," she says.
"I didn't do it," he says. She raises an eyebrow at him and Tyson huffs before nodding his head and sulking.
Aria then sits at the table and I follow her, Ryker looking over at us and he smiles before turning back to the kids.
Lana comes out also sitting with us.
"How are you handling the entire thing with Lucy," Aria asks.
Other than Ryker she was the first person who asked about her outright.
"It is what it is," I tell her and she nods.
"He won't stop till kills all of them, you will get justice and so will the others," Aria tells me and I nod.
"How many others did they find?" I ask her.
"Other than yourself, 41 though you appear to be the oldest out of them"
"Yeah they said I was the first experiment"
"Yes, we did find out some other information though"
"What's that?" I ask.
"That rogue, Tim, he was their scout. He was also the one that kidnapped your mother to bring to the facility, he was the one that kidnapped them all," Aria says.
"But how he isn't much older than me?"
"He is a lot older, even though his werewolf, they have been giving him steroids and mutated Lycan blood. We discovered that he is not only old, but as old as Kade, your Alpha," she says the last word with disgust.
"You didn't tell me that" Lana says looking at her mother.
"No, I only just found out this morning. Drake has been questioning the humans they caught. Found out Kade had a brother"
"So Tim is Kade's brother?"
"Half brother. Explains why he would help him," Aria says.
"How is that even possible? Will we ever see an end to this Kade shit?" Arial asks, walking out.
"I don't know. I thought it all ended when Kade was killed, obviously not. But it has had me questioning what exactly my father went through when he was one of Kade's original test subjects"
"Test subjects?" I ask.
"Yes, my father was a pure Lycan hybrid like me only purer. Kade captured my father centuries ago when he realized what he was, and experimented on his blood. We thought it was just a coincidence that Kade discovered him, until we realized it was some old vendetta. Kade thought my father killed his daughter so, he hunted him down and caught him. Then started taking his blood and experimenting on it. Made himself into one of us with the exception of not having a wolf"
"Yeah Kade was more like us, no wolf but could partly shift"