Ryker
Reika fell asleep, my mind was consumed with finding her daughter, sleep refusing to take me. I place my hand on Reika's head, her temperature dropping as she sleeps peacefully. I waited a while to make sure she was asleep before sliding out of the bed, careful not to wake her.
She moves over into my spot seeking my scent before rubbing her face in my pillow making me laugh softly, as she grabs it cuddling it. Shaking my head I walk into the walk-in and grab a pair of shorts from off the shelf. Pulling them on before walking to the door and opening it.
I checked on the boys thinking they would be asleep. Ace was out cold, his game controller in his hand still. Tyson though, was sitting up leaning against the wall, with a book in his hand. The sight shocked me. I haven't seen him read a book since he was little.
He looked up before shoving the book under his bed, making me curious as to what he was reading that he wanted to hide it from me.
"What's up?" He asks as I step into their room.
"Hand it over," I tell him, holding my hand out for the book, it was probably porn but either way I wanted to know.
"It's just a book," he says, I click my fingers impatiently. He groans before reaching down and grabbing it from where he hid it.
He passed it to me, the leather cover smooth in my hand and I recognized it from my office.
"History of Alpha's?" I ask him and he looks away. I opened it but it was just my family's handwriting on the pages, nothing concealed inside like I thought I would find.
"Why would you hide it?" I ask, not understanding. It was a Family book passed down to each Alpha from my father's bloodline and has each Alpha's name and their descendants etc. in it.
He folds his arms across his chest looking away. I hand it back to him and he takes it.
"Are you going to answer? Since when are you interested in our family history?" I ask him, sitting on the end of his bed.
"Since realizing mine and Ace's names will never be in it, because we won't be Alpha's," he says.
"I thought you wanted to be my Beta," I ask him.
"I do, but eventually I want to be an Alpha. It's in our bloodline but I have no pack and I don't want to leave home," he says.
"What's Ace want?" I ask him and he looks over at his twin.
"Nothing, he is happy here with how things are" I think for a second wondering what to say to him. He was right, unless he took over a pack by killing an Alpha, which I know he could if he wanted to, but Tyson wasn't one to kill for his own status gain. It didn't leave many options.
"How about, you be my Beta and if you can handle it, I will give you Lily's old pack. They branch off ours so you will be still able to stay home"
"But that's your pack?" He says.
"Yes, but they still live separate from our original pack and I will hand the title over to you when you're 18. If, you can prove you can handle it," I tell him.
"You would give it to me? Like actually give it to me?" He asks.
"Why wouldn't I? You're my brother," I tell him.
He smiles before launching himself at me, hugging me. Reminding me of when he was little, always following me around and wanting to play. I hugged him back patting his back.
"Thank you," he says, and we sit there for a few seconds, making me realize he wasn't so little anymore. Then, of course, Tyson had to ruin it.
"I'm kind of feeling pretty gay right now, pressed up against your bare chest with your man hairs touching my face. And what is that smell?" he says sniffing the air before pulling back.
He gasps, pulling away horrified, "So gross! You two mated and you haven't even showered? You just raped my face skin!" he says wiping his face trying to rid Reika's scent from his face.
I rip him toward me putting him in a headlock, he thrashes hitting me while I laugh at his attempt to escape.
"Let me go! Your getting your sex juices all over me! And it is corroding what's left of my hair!" he says.
"Hear let me polish that head of yours," I tell him rubbing my armpit on his bald head.
I let him go. "Fucking gross! Now I got Reika's scent all over me and, your sweat!"
"You smell that?" I ask him.
"Smell what? All I can smell is,"
"It's the smell of a fucking legend," I tell him cutting him off. He scoffs, smacking me with his fist in the chest. I laugh hopping up.
"Go shower, you bloody stink of sex!" he says grabbing a dirty shirt and wiping his face and head on it.
"I will be in my office" I laugh as I walk out.
"You're working this late?" He asks, dropping the shirt on the ground.
"Yes, feel free to join me," I tell him.
"What are you doing?" He asks hopping off the bed and following me.
"Going over that box of files to see if we can find where she is," I tell him.
"If we do find her, what are you going to do?" He asks, making me look at him.
"What do you mean?" I ask him.
"Well she isn't yours," he says.
"What is it with everyone thinking I'm some monster? Zane thought I wanted to kill her the first time we found out about Lucy, now you're asking," I tell him shaking my head.
"But does it upset you?"
"No! Lucy never asked to be born and Reika is my mate. I love Reika therefore I will love Lucy. She is half her," I tell him.
"So you're happy she might be alive?" He asks, shutting my office door. I grab the box off the shelf.
"Yes! I hope she is anyway"
I pass him half the files and he sits down on one end of the desk and I sit in my seat flicking through my half.
"Look for any addresses or coordinates, anything that may help," I tell him and he nods.
"So you love Reika?" He asks with a smirk on his face.
"Yes Tyson, she is my mate, and probably the only one that would put up with me anyway" I chuckle.
"Or survive you," Tyson says.
"I can't wait for you to find your mate, then you will know," I tell him, picking up the next file.