Hybrid Aria 1-4

“Come on Alpha, we are home” He says and I stretch lifting my head from the window. I saw that it was early afternoon, I couldn’t believe we had been gone for two days. It was supposed to be there and back. I didn’t expect we would find so much and now I was drained. I just wanted to go to bed and curl up and sleep, forgetting what I saw on the DVDs. Hopping out of the car. I see the front door open and Lily comes out racing to Damien and chucking herself at him. He laughs at her actions which reminded me I needed to tell him I saw his mother in some of the videos.

“Argh I missed you” Damien tells her, kissing her head. She sniffs him before pulling back a glare on her face.

“Have you been smoking?” She says stepping away from him.

“No aunt lil, I was smoking in his car” I told her and I saw Damien give me a relieved look. She would eat him alive if she knew not only was he smoking, he smoked an entire pack on the way home.

“You wouldn’t be covering for him?” She asks, eyeing me and him suspiciously. I pull my packet from my pocket showing her, “See all me” I tell her and she looks at me before nodding then giving her husband the stink eye, he was definitely in for it when she got him alone.

“Where is my mate?” I ask her and she turns walking over and gives me a hug.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Inside with the kids, she asked about you a couple of times, wanting to know where you went. Tyson has been giving her those sedatives”

“Has she put up a fight over them?” Lily shakes her head.

“No, she likes the boys and she can be a little strange around the kids sometimes, she is always watching them curiously, it is making Layla a bit on edge” Lily tells me.

“She wont hurt them, she means them no harm” I tell her.

“I know that, she has been playing with them on the swings. I think they are still out the back” Lily says.

“Want to meet this sister of yours?” I asked Damien who was quietly listening.

“Yes, I’ve always wanted a sister, funny how things turn out” He says to himself. We follow Lily inside and I see Tyson sitting on the couch. He comes over to me.

“Did you find her?” He asks and I shake my head, he looks at the box in my hands.

“What’s that?”

“Nothing, but can you put it in my office and make sure you lock the door? I don’t want Reika finding it” Tyson takes the box walking up the stairs and I walk through the living room and out the kitchen before stopping at the double glass doors. I see my mate with the kids out the back. She was pushing Amelia on the swings. The two boys were hanging upside down on the monkey bars. Lily has three kids which are triplets, Amelia, Thatcher, and Dominic. They are 12 now.

“Dad” Amelia Squeals, jumping off the swings and running toward Damien as he steps outside. My mate looks up and over to us as we walk down the back verandah stairs. She runs to her father in a blur of long black locks rushing toward him. She crushes him in a hug and kisses her hair. “My princess” He tells her, squeezing her and walking her back towards the swings where Dominic and Thatcher are.

“Dad!” Both boys did not bother to get off the monkey bars despite their father being gone for two days.

“What, no big hug?” He says taunting them. Reika watches him moving from foot to foot. I wanted to touch her, hug her and make sure she is okay. She looks up as I approach her watching me before shocking me when she steps toward me. She looks up at me but doesn’t move closer. Brax pressing against my skin wanting to touch her, needing to feel her warmth and I suddenly yank her towards me. Crushing her against my chest. I thought she would have pulled away or even attacked me but instead she wrapped her arms around my waist, hugging me back and sniffing my neck. Tingles flooding my body at her touch and I hear her take a breath before relaxing melting against me.

Damien clears his throat beside me and I completely forgot I was meant to be introducing them.

“Reika, this is Damien, he is”

“My brother,” She says, answering.

“Hi,” She says when Damien holds his hand out to her. She places hers in his when he suddenly pulls her to him, hugging her. She was stiff for a second before hugging him back with one arm awkwardly.

“Always wanted a sister, don’t suppose we have any brothers out there” He says and he lets her go. She looks up at him before shaking her head. “No, but Amanda was like me” She says and Damien looks at me.

“She doesn’t realise she is Amanda” I mindlink him, he nods.

“Well, that’s something I guess” he says, pulling her toward the swings and back to the kids. I watched him and Lily with her for a few seconds and she seemed comfortable enough so I walked back inside needing to shower. I walk past my office before stopping and checking the door. I groaned when I realised it was unlocked. I told Tyson to make sure he locked it.

Walking inside, I grab the box sitting on the centre of my desk and place it in the filing cabinet and lock it with the key. Walking out I flick the light off, before locking the door and heading upstairs to shower.

I felt uneasy, how do you tell somebody their child is dead when they don’t even understand the child is theirs. The thought alone made me feel sick. Turning the shower on I hopped in, hoping to wash the stress away, when all I wanted to do was hold her close and take it all away, all the pain and hurt, everything. She didn’t deserve any of it, the tapes running through my head on repeat. Her screams, her begging and her wolf’s rage. No wonder she dissociated herself from it all. You can only take so much before you break and break her they did, now I just had to fix her.