“Sit down, love,” His Luna told him, touching his arm. She looked petrified, and he would be an idiot to challenge Ace. Not only would he lose, but we would take his pack. Realizing that, he sat back down.
Ace also went to sit down, but the dickhead just couldn’t help but run his mouth.
“Fucking hybrid mutts!” he muttered under his breath. Ace growled, about to attack him, when Reika suddenly stood. Reaching over the table, grabbing his head, and slamming it onto the table. I heard the crunch of his nose before blood splattered across it. My mother snickered in the corner of the room. Mom had a different way of dealing with Alphas when she was Queen, she could usually talk them down with reason. Reika, the new Queen, didn’t share those views. Personally, I think my brother has rubbed off on her, she was more the brute-force sort of Queen.
Alpha Jamie sprang to his feet, a growl escaping his lips. His Luna shrieked as blood splattered on her.
“You fucking…”
“I dare you to finish that sentence, Jamie. See where it gets you,” Ryker warned him, pulling Reika onto his lap before she let Amanda have him. Jamie, however, refused to sit back down. Reika leaned forward, and I could see Ryker’s grip on her tighten as she gripped the table.
“Sit down, bitch! Or I will make you!” Reika told him, her claws slipping from her fingers and piercing through the desk.
Alpha Jamie finally sat back down, backing away from the argument. Reika looked a little upset, like she wanted him to remain standing just so she could tear him apart. Ryker whispered something to her, and she leaned back, and he kissed her shoulder.
“So. Can we wrap this shitshow up? Or do you other fools want to start some more unnecessary shit?” I asked.
They shook their heads, and I hopped up, glad to be out of this meeting. My mother came over from her place in the corner, following Ace and me out of the room.
“You boys excited for your seventeenth birthday tomorrow? You can finally find your mates. I thought you would have last year, but better late than never,” she said.
“More excited about spending time with my family. It’s been a while since everyone has been in one place,” Ace said, wrapping his arm across her shoulders.
“Feels like yesterday that you were babies. Now look at you. All grown up and towering over me just like your brother,” she said just as Lucy came bounding down the stairs. She had grown so much, her green and amber eyes lighting up when she saw us. She was twelve now.
“Grandma!” she squealed, rushing over and hugging her.
“Hey, princess. Where were you headed?”
“Looking for dad. I want to go to the creek with Melena and Josey.”
“Dad’s busy, sweetie. You will have to tell them not today. Maybe tomorrow, after the birthday celebrations,” Mom told her, and she nodded before heading back upstairs.
“I’ll take you. Go put on your swimmers,” I told her, and she rushed upstairs. My mother gave me a look.
“What?”
“Reika wants her home. You two always give in to her.”
“We will have her back before dark,” I told my mother, and she sighed.
“Fine. But, if Reika rips your head off, I ain’t helping you,” she said, wandering off.
“Huh? Yeah, right! Reika will just be glad she isn’t up to mischief,” Ace said, heading upstairs to grab our swimmers. Ryker usually went swimming with her, because the girl was bottom-heavy. No matter how many times we tried teaching her to swim, she would just sink to the bottom like a stone.
I followed him up to our room, pushing the door open and grabbing a bag to stuff some clothes in. Lucy didn’t have a wolf. Her biological father made sure of that when he forced her to shift, when she was eight, killing her wolf and awakening her vampire side. She too, died from the shift before coming back as a hybrid without a wolf.
“Here, chuck these in,” Ace said, tossing me his board shorts. I chucked them in the bag. Just in time for Lucy to bound in with her towel and swimmers.
“Who are you going with? Ace or me?” I asked her.
“Ace. Your wolf is too fast,” she said, and I nodded.
“Hold this. I need to pee first,” I told her, and she grabbed the backpack, and I wandered down the hall to pee. Flicking the toilet seat up and unzipping.Argh, I thought as I let loose, only, I didn’t hear it hit the water. Opening my eyes, piss was going everywhere. Like a fountain as I tried to stop midway.That bloody brat! She cling-wrapped it again!
“Lucy!” I screamed before hearing her giggle on the other side of the door. I grabbed a towel, mopping up the mess I’d just made before washing my hands.
Opening the door, she shrieked before rushing off.