Chapter 12

The car moves lurching forward and I grip the seat as it moves. My claws digging into it held me steady. The motion so fast as he moves onto the road. The motion made my stomach turn. My head feels funny as my stomach lurches in my throat. "Mate, feel ill" "Huh?" He says looking at me. "Shit!" He says pulling over. I try to open the door but I can't figure it out. I need out, I need out. The door suddenly opens and I throw up the contents of my stomach on the ground. Only it wasn t the ground but his boots. He jumps back a growl escaping him. I try to move but the strap over my chest prevents me from leaving the car. I claw at it. My claws slicing through the strap freeing me as I jump out of the car retching. "Have you never been in a car before?" He asks, making me look up at him. He walks away to the boot of his car opening it before walking back. He has a bottle in his hand and he offers it to me. I wonder if it is a trick. "Take it," He says before opening the lid. I take it, sniffing it before bringing it to my lips. The water soothing my throat that was burning. I watch as he opens the other bottle, pouring it on his boots and cleaning them. My face is heating. "Don t be embarrassed," he says and I wonder why he isn t hurting me, usually when I do something bad they hurt me, they all hurt me when I do something bad. "So you've never been in a car?" He asks again. I look back at the car before shaking my head. "Not while awake" I tell him looking back at him. "What do you mean?" He asks, his eyebrows furrowing. "They made me drink some stuff, made me sleep. It wasn t like this though it was bigger and had big doors on the back" I tell him. His jaw clenches and unclenches and he looks mad. "We need to go to Avalon City, we should go" He says, holding out his hand to me. I looked at it, his hands were big compared to mine and hairy on the back. "Please, I don't want to hurt you," he says. I grab his hand, my hand tingling and I like the feel of his warm rough skin. He pulls me upright and I turn and hop back in the car. "Don't touch anything, and for the love of God keep your claws to yourself" he says, eyeing the strap and seats where my claws unleashed. "Sorry" I mutter. "Do you actually know the meaning of the word?" He asks. "Yes, I do. I may not know some things but I did listen when they would read to us" "They?" "The humans," He glares at me and slams the door before walking around the other side of the car and hopping in. Just as he gets in, his phone rings. "What mother?" He says and I hear a feminine voice on the other side. "Lana said you're leaving I thought you were taking Tyson and Ace with you?" "Change of plans" he snaps at the woman he calls mother, the hybrid Queen I must kill to set her free. "No you promised them Ryker, you need to take them. Chase is pitching a fit about them remaining here and honestly I am at a loss as to what to do. I love them but they are bloody little monsters" Ryker growls and I wonder who they are talking about. "Fine get Arial to bring them to me, I am on the eastern border. I swear mother if they piss me off I will give them the spanking you refused to give them" he says. "Ryker they are your brothers" "And they are your son's yet you are giving them to me to raise because you can't handle them, so what will it be mother, am I taking them or not?" Silence was on the other end of the phone before the woman spoke again. "Fine but don't be too hard on them they are only 13" "Old enough for a wolf, old enough to know better mother, you have twenty minutes. I won't wait any longer" Ryker says, hanging up the phone. Ryker sighs loudly before pinching the bridge of his nose. He looks out the windscreen before spinning in his seat and staring at me. "My brothers are coming with us home, you step one foot out of line, even a fucking toe and go near them I will kill you understood?" "Home?" "Yes my home after we go to Avalon City, but you don't even talk to them, or look at them. Understood?" I nod, putting my head down and fiddling with my fingers. I wanted to shift and go running. My wolf comes forward peering out my eyes. "Stop fiddling, chin up. Don't you cry, we can't keep him, you knew this? Why are you upset? We are not his family, we have no family here, what did you expect?" " But he was nice a minute ago?" "They will kill him, and he doesn't want us," she says simply. I nod to her. "We are family though?" "We are family, you always have me and I you" she says. We wait and another car pulls up beside us. A silver one like mate s eyes. I hear a feminine voice and glance up to see Lana getting out of the car though she doesn't smell like Lana from the open window. I sniff the air. That's not Lana but they look the same. "Lana must be a twin," my wolf says. "Twin,?" "Yes like that girl from home, the ones that looked the same, remember the ones with the flaming red hair" I nod yes Lana must be like them. I hear the back door open and two boys get in who also must be twins, I turn to see who they are when Ryker opens the door hopping in. "Who is that?" The girl asks. "None of your business, bye Arial" he says, winding the window up and starting the car. I turn to see who got in the car. Ryker grips my face and growls. "What did I say, eyes to yourself" I looked out my window and my heart hurt at his words. "Who is she?" I hear one of them ask. "Nobody, now be quiet" he tells them, my heart twisting in my chest. "Why does it hurt when he speaks?" I ask my wolf. "Because he is our mate, that's what they do, that's why they take them. They hurt us. Mates are bad 46 we must not forget" We drove in his car for what felt like forever. The sky went from light to dark as it swallowed everything outside. After a couple more hours I saw lights ahead. Making me sit up. I could hear snoring in the back but didn't turn. I didn't want to anger my mate by looking at them, though they smelt young like pups do. I watch big buildings all lit up, so many things to see and look at.