“Fuck! Avery, be good if you could get here soon,” Aamon breathed out.
“How did you know?” I asked, biting into my wrist yet again and placing it over Reika’s mouth, my blood flowing down her throat.
“A text message Melana sent to the school mobile. I called her back, and she said Ryker was in trouble,”
I looked at Ace, whose brows furrowed before scanning the place for her but not seeing her anywhere. Focusing back on the task at hand, I went back to trying to help revive Reika.
“What is taking the authorities so long?” I growled. Watching the trees ignite one by one, the forest was going to burn, so much wildlife would be killed when I heard an engine before a loud bang. Jacob’s car was plowed out of the way as the bulldozer from the barn crashed through the wire fence and into the side of his car. Thinking of Jacob, I hadn’t seen him, which made me glance at the house.
“Quick, move out of the way!” one of the warriors yelled, and I looked at the bulldozer to see Melana bouncing around in it as she steered it toward the house.
“Move out of the way!” she bellowed out the bulldozer’s window. I thought for sure she would have taken off after Ace grabbed her, and I was a little shocked to see she remained to help instead of saving her own ass.
The sirens got louder, and I heard a gasp, and Reika took a breath. Aamon was still working on Ryker. Reika’s breathing was shallow, but she was alive. Barely, but alive. Her body fell slack, but her chest still rose and fell. The forest was burning out of control, and Melana plowed into the packhouse, the blade of the dozer crashing into the stonework bringing the place down easily and reducing it to rubble. Heat from the flames was blowing over us when Avery suddenly misted here. She appeared just down the driveway, a little bit away from us. Clutching her knees like she was out of breath, her auburn hair falling down around her like a waterfall.
“The forest! Babe, are you alright?” Aamon called, and she nodded, raising a thumb that he didn’t see. She coughed before standing upright and staggering, and my eyes went wide when I saw her huge round belly.
“Love, are you good?” Aamon called, and I got to my feet and rushed over to her, gripping her arm and helping her walk.
“I’m fine,” she stammered before shaking my hand off and raising her arms. She looked at the sky before muttering to the bright sunny and clear sky. She had on a green maxi dress that did nothing to hide the baby bump I couldn’t stop staring at.
“le fiamme si alzano fanno cadere i cieli lo fanno versare, annegano tutto.”
Her eyes turned black as coal, her hands shook, and the air rippled. Storm clouds rolled across the sky rapidly, the day turned to night, and thunder and lightning lit up the sky. The thunder was deafening as it cracked and rolled loudly before it poured down.
The sky opened up, and a tidal wave of water crashed down on the flames. Winds so strong I fought to remain upright, and Avery looked strained like she was holding the weight of the world up by her hands. Blood dribbled down from her nose, and steam rose, and the flames died down.
“Avery, enough!” Aamon called out to her over the howl of the wind. Avery dropped her hands and wobbled on her feet before clutching her knees just as the fire brigade tore up the driveway. Ambulances followed behind it, and they looked around in shock as the storm left just as quickly as it had appeared.
“Don’t just stand there. Help them!” I growled at the paramedics and pointed to my brother Aamon was still working on. I saw the pack doctor jump out of one of the ambulances unfazed by Avery’s magic, and he rushed toward Ryker just as Avery passed out, collapsing, and I rushed tograb her before she hit the dirt.
“Over here,” I called to the other paramedic while clutching Avery; her huge swollen belly startled me. When did she fall pregnant?
“Mom?” Lucy’s voice trembled, and I looked up to see her standing there, her hands clutching her mouth.
“Mom!” she screamed, rushing over, leaving Ace’s car door wide open as she dropped next to her mother. Aamon came over, having the paramedics take over Ryker and retrieve Avery from out of my arms.
“I got you, love. Take what you need,” he whispered, brushing her hair from her pale face.
Chapter seventy-nine
Lucy
I paced the hall in the hospital ward, waiting for the pack doctor to come and give me news on my parents. Avery was in the room next door with Aamon, and I was shocked to learn she was pregnant.
“Lucy, stop pacing,” Ace growled. We had been waiting hours; they managed to revive my stepfather. However, he hadn’t woken up, and neither had my mother. Apparently, a few pack members, except those of the original pack belonging to my grandmother, were knocked out along with Ryker.
Only those that served the original Hybrid Queen remained awake and the mutations. Tyson and Ace explained it was some sort of default. Luckily it only affected those he personally brought into the pack and had pledged to him. Despite my stepfather being the King, the rest were bound to my grandmother, Aria and grandfather Reid who were apparently on their way here.
“Lucy, stop!” Ace snarled, his temper bubbling over, and I glared at him. I still haven’t forgiven him for knocking me out. Tyson suddenly walked out of Avery’s room with Aamon, but my attention was diverted to the pack doctor; when I saw him walking down the corridor toward us, I all but pounced on the man.
“My parents?”
He sighed, looking over my shoulder at my mates, and I growled when Ace stepped closer to listen to the doctor.
“Your mother is in a coma which appears to be induced by the King, same as the rest of his blood-bound members. Until he wakes up, she won’t either.”
“When will that be? My brothers are out there somewhere. I need them awake to help find them. We don’t have the manpower to search the entire city without all of his pack,” I snapped, tears brimming in my eyes at my frustration.