Alpha King’s Mate
Chapter 75

Ryker POV

The bastard said he wouldn’t break. And even after everything he has endured he still, hasn’t uttered a word as to where they are. Just the occasional taunt, besides his screams.

I watch as Drake hooks a b***d bag up to him, we had been at it all day and half the night. At this rate he would die long before we got answers from him.

“We will start first thing in the morning. Organize Jacob to come watch him,” I tell Drake exhaustedly. My ears are ringing from his constant screaming.

“Ah Ryker, is it alright if Tate and I stay at a motel instead of here?”

“Of course it is. Why are you asking? You can go home if you want,” I tell him but he shakes his head.

“I’m not leaving till I know where those kids are,” Drake says. I give him a nod walking out, seeing Tate asleep in a chair. How he managed to sleep listening to his screams is beyond me. My skin was itchy from all the dried b***d, and being down here covered in it was making my gums tingle with the need to feed.

I clap Tate on the shoulder, and he jolts awake. “Shit! What I miss?” He asks, looking around bleary-eyed.

“Go sleep. Drake is just finishing up, and Jacob will be here soon” he nods, running a hand through his hair.

I walk up the steps to the ground floor. My feet leave bloody footprints as I walk up the steps.

“Reika?” I call out to her wondering where she is. It was nighttime, she should be around somewhere.

I stop at Tyson and Ace’s door, sticking my head in. Tyson was reading that family history book, Ace drawing in his sketch pad.

“Have you seen Reika?” I ask them.

“Not since this morning,” Ace tells me.

“What? You haven’t seen her all day?” I ask, wondering where she went. She wouldn’t have left us would she? I know we had an argument but I was just p!ssed off. I never meant to snap at her.

“If you see her, can you tell her I will be in the shower?” I could feel she was close, so I knew she was somewhere in the house. I look at my phone and see it is nearly 10PM. I will shower and go check the rec room, she might be watching Tv, I thought to myself.

Turning into the next hallway, I walk toward the bedroom. Opening the door I replace her sitting on the bed leaning against the headboard. Her face streaked with tears.

“There you are! I was looking for you,” I tell her but she says nothing, just looks away.

“What’s wrong? I’m sorry I snapped at you,” I tell her walking toward the bed. Still she says nothing. “Reika!” I mindlink her and she looks at me, so I knew she heard me.

“I told you I didn’t mean it. I just don’t want you down there,” Still nothing and I try speak to her wolf but get only silence

“You want to be a brat then? Fine! I’m going to shower,” I tell her p!ssed off that she was ignoring me. Brax whimpers in my head as I turn the shower on.

“Don’t you start, as*sh0le. I told her I’m sorry. She is just in a mood, she will get over it,” I tell him.

I hop in the shower bracing my arms on the wall. Shoving my feelings aside and feeling for hers. Yet all I feel is loneliness and hunger. Why is she hungry? I mind-link Ace.

“Did Reika eat today?”

“Nope. I asked if she was hungry but I got no answer from her. I figured she was asleep, why?”

“Doesn’t matter,” I tell him and I racked my brain, wondering why she was ignoring me. I was in a bad mood, but I only told her to get back in bed and shut up.

I was giving myself a headache when I remembered the look on her face and the whimper that left her l!ps. The way she looked at me with so much shock. Then it hit me. “You f*****g id!ot!” Brax yells, realizing the same thing I did. We used our Alpha voice on her.

I spin around, running straight in the glass shower screen in my haste, the door smacking the wall with a loud bang as I dart out. She jumps when I run back in the room.

“I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize! I didn’t realize! You can speak. Sh!t! I didn’t mean it I swear! You’re free to go where you please,” I tell her, grabbing her and jerking her towards me. A sob breaking from her l!ps as I grab her legs, pulling her towards me when suddenly her hand connects with the side of my face. Her palm branding my skin.

“You ever do that to me again and I will rip your f*****g b@lls off and feed them to you!” she snaps at me.

I rub my cheek, shocked she dared hit me. Hit the Alpha King. She hit me! Though I was just glad to hear her voice, she could have punched me and I would have just been glad to hear her voice still.

She stares at me, her anger dissipating and I feel her become anxious before I realize I was just staring at her. My hand was still grasping her knee while the other was feeling her handprint on my face.

I move my hand toward her face and she flinches. When I realized she thought I was going to be angry because she hit me. I was shocked but definitely not angry. I would have probably slapped me too.

I cup her cheek and she lets out a breath leaning into my touch.

“I’m so sorry, love. I didn’t realize I did it,” I tell her, brushing a stray tear with my thumb.

“But if in the future you need to cut something off, can I keep my balls? You can cut off anything else, just not the baby makers,” I tell her and she chuckles.

I grip her ch!n and bring her l!ps to mine and k!ss her softly. She sighs, k!ssing me back, and I feel her hunger, her need to feed. I pull her to me before standing up, turning and sitting on the bed. I pull her onto my l@p before breaking the k!ss and offering my neck to her. I was ravenous but so was she, my own need to feed affecting her. I could wait, she was more important than me and it was my fault she was this way.

I feel her l!ps press to my neck, before feeling her canines graze my skin. Tingles rushing over me before she sinks her teeth into me. I m0an as her tongue l@ps at my skin, my c0ck hardening underneath her and I roll her h!ps against me. She m0ans, pulling her fangs from my neck. She k!sses me before pulling back and looking at the bathroom.

“You left the water on,” she says, and I listen, hearing the shower still running.

“Want to shower with me?” I ask, bumping my h!ps up against her. She smiles, k!ssing me and I stand up, her legs wrapping around my wa!st and I tug her shirt off as I walk into the bathroom. My l!ps going to her skin as I n!p and svck on it.