Hybrid Aria 1-4

Ryker POV

She was silent the entire way home, it made me on edge because the emotions coming through the bond were so back and forth, she was angry but also incredibly sad. Reika just stared vacantly out the window. It was like she was on autopilot, completely shut down and she wouldn’t stop shivering, even her teeth were chattering loudly like she was cold.

Tyson and Ace decided to stay the night with my parents, though I was a little nervous about being in the house with her alone. We had never been truly alone together other than in the car and for most part she was always in Tyson and Ace’s room, or in my walk in.

Pulling up at the pack house, I touched her shoulder and she nearly jumped out of her skin, confirming my thoughts that she wasn’t even paying attention to our whereabouts.

“We are home” I tell her.

“Home?” she murmurs looking past me and at the pack house.

“It’s your home too” I tell her and she seems confused. She just slaughtered a man brutally yet the prospect of home scares her, didn’t she want to be with me or was it just the word that confused her.

“What’s your wolf saying?” I ask her, curious, I know she was present, yet Reika hasn’t said a word about anything. Was she mad that I didn’t give her enough to make her wolf remain dormant?

“She doesn’t say anything” she says, making me confused.

“Come one then, I don’t think you will be very comfortable sleeping in the car” I tell her, opening my door and hopping out.

I hear her door shut behind me as I walk toward the house. I would have to remember to get the seats cleaned. She once again destroyed them, though it couldn’t be helped with her drenched in blood.

Opening the door I walk in, placing the keys on the hall stand before waiting for her to come in. She walks in rubbing her arms.All rights © NôvelDrama.Org.

“You’re cold” she nods though it was anything but cold tonight, I felt fine and I only had a pair of shorts on I stole from Jacob’s bag, though his pants were a little tight, he had the ass of girl not a man and my balls were crushed against my leg, one wrong move and one might slip up my ass.

“I think you may be in shock” I tell her, grabbing her hand away from her arm. She looks at my hand holding hers and then squeezes my hand softly.

Snooping in her head as we walk up the steps, I find her thoughts consumed with what was real and what wasn’t, which of her memories were real and what weren’t, constantly questioning whether everything was a lie. The only certainty she was sure of now was Lucy. My Lucy, she kept repeating in her head like if she said it enough she would come back to her.

My heart was breaking for her but even in her heartbreak she kept thinking of what the man said about the facility for the pups, she wanted to help them, save them since she couldn’t save her own. Once to the top of the stairs she walks off toward the bathroom.

“Where are you going?” I ask her and she stops in front of the door.

“To shower, I’m covered in his filth” she says.

“Use the one in our room” I tell her and she seems to think for a second.

“You want me to sleep in your room?” She asks, I could feel through the bond she wanted to but was unsure.

“Yes you’re my mate,” though as soon as the word left my lips her thoughts were screaming at me, she wasn’t sure I was her mate not after being tricked the first time, but she also wanted to go with me. Her thoughts were giving me a headache with the back and forth, I would hate to feel how bad her headache is.

“You are my mate, Reika,” I tell her before walking toward her and pulling her to me.

I run my arm down her back before sliding it under her shirt and she gasps at the sparks rushing over her and I hear her heart rate spike. Moving closer to her. Leaning down, I run my nose across her cheek and she leans in inhaling my scent, her hands going to my chest as she runs her small palms over them.

“That feeling, the sparks, my scent, the weird urge to touch me you get, is because I am your mate, that’s how you know I’m not lying to you” I tell her and she presses her face against my chest.

“So you get that too?” She asks.

“Yes, I get the same feelings too, the same urges” I tell her, kissing her forehead.

“So our bathroom?” I ask her and she nods before following me.

I flick the light on and I had never felt so relieved to go to bed before. I was exhausted, mentally and physically.

Walking into the bathroom, Reika starts removing her clothes while I turn the shower on for her before stripping these god awful pants off that felt like they were about to tear down the seams.

The entire floor turns red the moment she steps under the water. Congealed blood stuck in her hair as she tried to rinse it out. Stepping in behind her, I grab the shampoo pouring some in my hand before washing her hair and she leans back against me as I massage her scalp ridding it of the blood. I push her forward back under the stream rinsing it out before doing the same with the conditioner. Though having her this close and touching her was now making me uncomfortable.