“You owe me a new pillow,” I told him. He smiled, rolling as Lucy turned to face me and drifted back to sleep. I growled at him, not wanting to know what he did with it. Lying back down and trying to go to sleep, pissed off about them fucking on my pillow. That was the only explanation for how her scent could be so strong on it. Lucy moved as Tyson tucked her against him. I sighed, unable to be mad, not that her arousal bothered me but knowing my brother probably had his nuts resting where my head slept made me shiver in disgust. It took me a good half an hour before I felt sleep trying to take me.
I closed my eyes when suddenly the mindlink opened up, and I groaned, praying to the Goddess to let me sleep and let the world end around me. When I felt it was my brother, though, I knew I couldn’t shove him out, not without him coming over and kicking the door down and dragging me out to deliver the ass-whooping he would no doubt give me if I blocked him.Please, don’t make me have to leave, I thought to myself.
“What, Ryker?” I asked, wanting to go to sleep.
“Is that any way to speak to your king? What is up your ass?”
“King or not, you’re my brother and interrupting my sleep.”
“Still doesn’t explain your bad mood,” he tossed back at me.
“Well, if you must know, I came home to find my pillow violated by Lucy and Tyson fucking on it.”
“Argh, no, that’s disgusting. Stop right there, or I will remove your bloody tongue. I do not want to know what you pair are doing to my step-daughter,” he growled almost violently through the link.
“Well, you wanted to know,” I told him, and I could feel the smile creep on my face.
“Nothing about Lucy. Keep that to yourself,” he said, and I could almost feel how disgusted he was with that over-share of information.
“What’s up?”
“Nothing, but I was wondering if you could check Lucy’s phone for me because I am assuming she is asleep since it is only 3 AM,” Ryker said, and I groaned, not wanting to get up but forcing myself nonetheless.
“You assume right. Want to know what she is wearing since I am about to violate her right to privacy by snooping on her phone?” I teased.I think I have just found some new ways to torture my brother. It just may get me killed, but it would be so worth it. His growls made me chuckle.
“One word, Ace. I mean it, your tongue will go.”
“Yeah, whatever. You won’t do it,” I laughed at him.
“No, you’re right, but I am sure Reika will if I told her of your oversharing about her daughter.” I went quiet. She would remove more than my tongue and then would feed it to me.
“Fine, what am I looking for?” I asked him, and I could practically feel how smug he was, knowing he’d won that one.
“See if she has any missed calls from Mitchell for me.”
“Why?” I asked, looking for her phone. When I couldn’t find it, I looked at Lucy, knowing I would have to ask her where she had put it. I shook her shoulder gently, and she rolled over, her eyes fluttering open to look up at me.
“Where is your phone, Luce?” She mumbled, waving off in some direction.
“I can’t find it. How important is it because I don’t really want to force her awake?” I asked him.
“Just look for it. His mother said he rushed out of the house about an hour ago, and he is blocking her out. She said he has been acting strange lately.”
“Strange how?”
“She said he has been depressed, and she is worried about him. That he barely sleeps or eats and hides in his room besides going to school. I did have a complaint the other day that he hadn’t been showing up for training either.” I sighed before shaking her shoulder.
“Luce, baby, I need your phone,” I told her, and she mumbled something about her jacket, and I let her fall back to sleep. Walking out of our room to the kitchen, I saw her jacket on the back of the stool. I rummaged through her pockets, pulled out her phone, and turned the screen on.
Walking back to the bedroom, I gripped her fingers, so I didn’t have to ask for her password and pressed her finger to the back of the phone on the fingerprint panel. The phone unlocked, and I lay down beside her.
“I got it, and there are no missed calls, but why would he ring her when he can mindlink her? All our packs are linked now?” I told Ryker.
“Doesn’t matter. He will come home eventually. Hopefully, his mother has calmed down.”
“Okay, so I can go to bed now that I am done invading Lucy’s privacy? She has a go at me, you are taking the blame,” I told him, placing Lucy’s phone on the bedside table.
“Yes, I will speak to you tomorrow. If Lucy hears from him, let me know,” Ryker said, cutting the link off before I could reply. But now he told me I was finding it hard to go to sleep. Mitchell was her best friend, and I was worried about how much it would affect her if something were going on with him. She had enough going on without adding more stress to it.