Hybrid Aria 1-4

The room was freezing as the night air slipped into the room. I closed it softly before I heard a menacing growl behind me making me turn to find Rieka sitting up next to Ace who was sound asleep.

Her eyes sparkling oddly almost fluorescent in the darkness. “I was just checking them, I didn’t mean to startle you” She cocks her head to the side and I feel goosebumps rise on my skin an uneasy feeling coming over me with the way she stared.

“I don’t think that’s Rieka” My wolf says nervously looking out my eyes.

“You’re not Reika are you?” I ask her. Her eyes flicker glowing brighter and her lips part and I see her canines slightly elongated. An animalistic look crossed over her face.

“No I am not Reika” She says surprisingly clear. Clearer than the way Reika talks, her tone disapproving as she watched me.

“I wasn’t going to hurt her” I tell her wolf stepping toward Ace but she growls, the sound so low I thought she was about to attack me as my hair stood on end.

She chuckled and the sound was almost demonic, crazed. “You’re right, you won’t hurt her because I will kill you if you try”

“You think you can kill me?” I ask, genuinely wondering if she truly thought that.

“I know I can, she could to if she wasn’t blinded by the mate bond, she wants you even after what you did”

“And I am guessing you don’t want me?” I ask her.

“She may forgive but she will never forget, and if she tried I would remind her” She says. I thought it was a little odd. Usually it was the other way around, the wolf side fighting to save a bond, while the humanside fought it. But with her it was opposite according to her wolf, her wolf was fighting the bond while the human counterpart longed for it.

“You seem comfortable in this form” I state.

“More so than her, I am comfortable on both sides, can control both sides though she is growing stronger the longer she is in this form, the longer she is around you and I don’t like it,” She seems to think as she stares at her hands.

“Why is that?” I ask her. Brax was always comfortable in both forms but preferred his form better.

“Because this form is what they experimented on, I blocked her for 8 years from seeing outside, from seeing what they were truly doing to us. She would be broken if she saw what they took from us, more broken than she is. Everyone is always taking from her, everyone always taking, and taking. They took everything that mattered to me, I had to protect her, she never would have survived a second loss” She mutters looking at Ace, she brushes his cheek softly.

“She only knows what I allow her to know, it’s better that way. Better than knowing the truth, what I would give to forget, forget the pain of such loss” She rambled and I could see how erratic her wolf was, her sanity only just holding on at the edges making me wonder if Reika realised how insane her wolf was. I reach over tugging the blanket up on Ace and she growls at how close I was now to her.

“And I won’t hurt my brothers” I tell her, reaching down and gripping his blanket. I lean back and I see her eyes dart to my neck watching the vein pulse.

“Do you need blood?” I ask her.

“Not the best choice with me in control,”

“Does she know you have control?” I ask her sitting on Tyson’s bed. She nods.

“Yes, she prefers I have it”

“Why does she prefer you have control?”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“She knows I won’t let you hurt her,” She said with certainty.

“I won’t hurt her, I just made a mistake 46”

“You already hurt her and a mistake it was, an unforgivable one. I don’t forgive easily” She says.

I step forward and reach out to her, my hand touching her arm and she looks at it. Sparks rush up my arm but she doesn’t react to my touch, not like Reika does. Her eyes snapping toward mine and she cocks her head to the side staring at me and I have never felt so intimidated in my life by one look.

“Can I ask you something?” She says, I nod watching her, my hand going up her arm and moving to her neck cupping it, still no reaction, yet the reaction I was having to her from touching her was startling.

“My limbs grow back, do yours?” She asks, her eyes flickering and the calmness in her voice makes me jerk my hand back. Cold calculating eyes watching me, something deranged and unbalanced about her wolf, something that left me on edge just being next to her.

“No, they don’t”

“Then next time I suggest you keep your hands to yourself while I have the control, Reika may not bite but I will and I would hate to see you lose a hand” She says her eyes holding mine before I am forced to look away when she doesn’t, her eyes holding mine threateningly.

“Noted” I told her and I could feel my wolf wanting to get away from her, he found her cold, unpredictable and very unnerving. We walk out of the room, closing the door and I stare at the door worried.

“She won’t hurt them, I think her wolf even likes the boys” Brax tells me when he feels my worry of leaving them in there with her wolf. I stare at the now closed door, before deciding he was right, she has had every opportunity to hurt them and hasn’t so I doubted she would start now. Walking off I head for my office needing a distraction from my own guilt and the damage I have caused.