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“I will,” I answer simply. He nods before grabbing my mother's hand, I watch them walk down the stairs and out the front door. Walking into my office I try to do some work, trying to distract myself with pack duties, and business contracts. I find myself losing focus easily as the hours tick by. My wolf is becoming restless the longer time goes on.
“Brax stop it,” I tell him when I feel him press beneath my skin for the hundredth time, fur sprouting along my arms as he grows antsier and antsier. I tossed the file down I was looking at, the shit looked like gibberish to me. I hated looking at stats. My eyes just glaze over when it comes to numbers.
“Go get our mate,” Brax whines wanting to see her, hell he would probably be fine if I could just smell her mouth-watering scent.
“She is probably asleep,” I tell him looking at the clock it was a little after 1 AM. Had I really been staring at that file that long?
“Go check,” My wolf urges, shoving forward and trying to take control. My fist comes down on the table and I hear the wood groan under the blow. “Brax!” I warn as my claws slip from my fingers and into my palm.
“I will fucking go just stop, you bastard,” I tell him. He doesn’t stop trying to force me until I get up and am moving to the door. “Fucking stupid mutt,” I tell him.
“Dumb fuck,” He spits back at me angrily, trying to make me move faster and go check our mate. I walk out of my office before following the hall around to their room before stopping at the door and listening. I could hear their hearts beating softly on the other side of the door before one palpitated, pumping harder, beating like a drum as it picked up the pace and I knew it was Reika sensing my presence. I open the door and peek in, Tyson was sound asleep, his arm hanging off the bed and one leg like he was about to fall off.
I walked over, moving him over on his bed and picking up his blanket from the ground and tossing it over him then tucking it around his body, pressing my hand to his head. His skin was still warm but the cold was having an effect on him. Stepping around his bed before closing the wide-open bedroom window.
Chapter 34
Theroomwasfreezingas the night air slipped into the room. I closed it softly before I heard a menacing growl behind me making me turn to find Reika sitting up next to Ace who was sound asleep.
Her eyes sparkling oddly almost fluorescent in the darkness. “I was just checking them, I didn’t mean to startle you,” She cocks her head to the side and I feel goosebumps rise on my skin an uneasy feeling coming over me with the way she stared.
“I don’t think that’s Reika,” My wolf says nervously looking out my eyes.
“You're not Reika are you?” I ask her. Her eyes flicker glowing brighter and her lips part and I see her canines slightly elongated. An animalistic look crossed over her face.
“No, I am not Reika,” she says surprisingly clearly. Clearer than the way Reika talks, her tone disapproving as she watched me.
“I wasn’t going to hurt her,” I tell her wolf stepping toward Ace but she growls, the sound so low I thought she was about to attack me as my hair stood on end.
She chuckled and the sound was almost demonic, crazed. “You’re right, you won’t hurt her because I will kill you if you try.”
“You think you can kill me?” I ask, genuinely wondering if she truly thought that.
“I know I can, she could to if she wasn’t blinded by the mate bond, she wants you even after what you did.”
“And I am guessing you don’t want me?” I ask her.
“She may forgive but she will never forget, and if she tried I would remind her,” she says. I thought it was a little odd. Usually, it was the other way around, the wolf side fighting to save a bond, while the human side fought it. But with her it was the opposite according to her wolf, her wolf was fighting the bond while the human counterpart longed for it.
“You seem comfortable in this form,” I state.
“More so than her, I am comfortable on both sides, can control both sides though she is growing stronger the longer she is in this form, the longer she is around you and I don’t like it,” She seems to think as she stares at her hands.
“Why is that?” I ask her. Brax was always comfortable in both forms but preferred his form better.
“Because this form is what they experimented on, I blocked her for 8 years from seeing outside, from seeing what they were truly doing to us. She would be broken if she saw what they took from us, more broken than she is. Everyone is always taking from her, everyone always taking, and taking. They took everything that mattered to me, I had to protect her, she never would have survived a second loss,” She mutters looking at Ace, she brushes his cheek softly.
“She only knows what I allow her to know, it's better that way. Better than knowing the truth, what I would give to forget, forget the pain of such loss,” She rambled and I could see how erratic her wolf was, her sanity only just holding on at the edges making me wonder if Reika realized how insane her wolf was. I reach over tugging the blanket up on Ace and she growls at how close I was now to her.
“And I won't hurt my brothers,” I tell her, reaching down and gripping his blanket. I lean back and I see her eyes dart to my neck watching the vein pulse.
“Do you need blood?” I ask her.
“Not the best choice with me in control.”
“Does she know you have control?” I ask her sitting on Tyson’s bed. She nods.
“Yes, she prefers I have it.”
