Drekinn 3 - Reaching Rissa (10 page)

“Thank the Gods
,
it wasn
'
t loaded,” Cherri sighed.

“Well it was, but she didn’t take off the safety. Remember
,
that
'
s when Mr. Twisted grabbed the gun out of her hand and said she needed a ‘fucking spanking
.’
” Calli snorted.

Oh
,
the humiliation
, Rissa thought. She should just jump for the fucking hell of it.

“Wait,” Cherri said. “Can you hear that?”

Rissa gasped and looked up
;
an eagle was flying above
the compound
. O
f course
,
the asshole would be early. Simon, that
'
s what he said his real name was,
ha
, like she would believe that. No, he was Mr. Twisted and that was it.

“Shit
,
it
'
s Simon, Kade was going to talk to him and
explain
everything, and then we were gonna bring her in and make her apologize. Now
what the fuck are we gonna do?”
Calli said and then made a growling noise she made when she was frustrated.

“We have to find her. She
'
s just hiding. I mean
,
please, we know everywhere she would go
,
” Cherri said.

“By the way,
we have checked all of those places
,
” Calli said.

“Well, Billy B
is with Pilar, she said Rissa asked her to watch him for her
,
” Cherri said.

“Crap, she is going into the city
,
” Calli said and Rissa smirked and waited, they would go to the tu
nnels and look at the new under
ground transport cars she designed and they used
for
travel. Recently, they used it to bring Pack members
there
who joined the Drekinn Pack.

Rissa list
ened as they walked to the door
and got ready to jump again when she heard Kade, the other Alpha. “What the fuck is going on?”

“Huh?” Calli said.

“Simon said when he flew in there was someone on the ledge, I figured it was Rissa since you were going to talk to her
,
” Kade ground out.

“Rissa? You mean MY MATE
is the one who is on the F
uckin
’
ledge?
!
”

Rissa heard someone roar a
nd that was all it took. Her f
ight or f
l
ight instinct went into high gear.
“You will never take me alive!
” Rissa cried and jumped as she heard her best friends
,
now labeled traitors
,
laugh,
and clap.

Rissa landed nicely on her ass, in the middle of the shrubs
,
and said a very unladylike word. Like that was going to change
the situation
. She jumped up and ran, not looking back and only hearing the men yelling for someone to stop her.

Chapter One

“Well, what the fuck?” Calli said and put her hands on her hips, her best
friend was
weird, they all were, but this? This was a step beyond the weirdness scale.

Kiki, Thomas, Sabrina, and Trina were the original Drekinn Pack. They were each descendants of the Chosen and their Senate. Right now
,
no one knew exactly what the hell that meant, but they did know they were important. Somehow, some way,
all of t
hem being together was important.
Pilar was once Ms. Praton
,
the head of the
Drekinn Agency
; u
nknown to them, Pilar was a dragon, a breed long thought extinct, and who had the ability to cloak themselves.
To best explain
it
, until a
few months ago
,
she was a frumpy
,
older woman who was their boss. Now, she was a young
,
beautiful wo
man who apparently was a Dragon
and now part of the Pack.
It was safer this way, if anyone knew who she was, they would question everything the Drekinn stood for.

Pilar
knew something, and as of yet, none of them knew what. She was cryptic and strange, and so far
,
all of them were just waiting for the next shoe to drop with her. Right now, she sat in the corner with a smile on her face as they discussed what they were going to do with Rissa.

“What do y
ou mean she jumped out a window?
I mean
,
like literally a window or like figur
atively a window?
” Kiki said smartly
,
and Calli and Cherri looked at one another.

Kiki was their cross-dressing member of the Pack, although lately he had given up dressing in
wome
n’s clothes, he claimed it was all for the show, however, Calli and her friends a
ll voted that he liked it.
Now
he just wore bright
, flamboyant clothes and was totally
a Drama Queen
,
or King, whichever you preferred.

“OUT
...
A...
FUCKING...
WINDOW!” Cherri yelled
slowly and paused when her mates put their hand
s
on her shoulder
s
as if to hold her back.

Calli and Kade were the Alphas of the Pack,
while
Cherri, Declan, and Nik were Betas,
as
well
as
,
Rissa, Simon
,
and an unknown mate. Everyone but the Alphas
were
destined to have two mates, or so the story went. Cherri didn’t complain,
however
,
Rissa,
who was the innocent of the group
,
did.

“Okay, okay,
so she jumped out a window. I'
m sure she is going to be fine. You all know Rissa, one night in the dark and she will be crying for Billy B
,
” Kiki snapped and sat down.

“That is my mate you are talking about. We will not leave her out in the elements, who
knows what the hell she will do?
She is slightly unstable and I
'
m thinking we
’
re going to have to get medication for her.
My mate will not be acting like this
,
” Simon said
with
frustra
tion
and ran his hands through his long
,
dark hair. He was gorgeous
—
all of them admitted it. They also admitted there was no way he was the one they watched on video
—
his ass was way to
o
firm. Everyone but Rissa agreed. For some reason she was stuck on the fact he was a killer.

“Dude
,
seriously, you have been here for all of
,
like
,
three seconds
,
and there is no way you know more about my best friend than I do. You don’t understand, yes
,
Rissa is a little weird, but it
'
s because she is a computer nerd. We accept that, she doesn’t get out much, and o
nly talks geek to her crew. However
,
that is her, and she is brilliant. If she wants to be invisible for months, she can be. She knows how to hunt, she is a master with a knife, and she
’s
had more survivalist training than any of us
, it was her little quirk. D
on’t tell me she is in danger, hell, if she wanted to
,
Rissa could sneak
in here
and kill us all in our sleep
,
and we would never hear her
—s
he is that good. If I were you, I would sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen. You want to know what we
’
re dealing with? Call in the moms
,
” Calli ground out.

Simon raised an eyebrow
,
sat back
,
and folded his arms. Calli stared him down like a rabid dog. She may be able to insult her friend
—
she was allowed, they had the blood oath
—
but
no one else was allowed
to do it
. Everyone in the room knew it, including her mate. Cherri and Rissa were like her sisters
,
they had been through so much shit together it was hard to explain. Calli felt Simon back off, she was the Alpha Bitch and the sooner he realized it the better.
Arrogant prick
, she thought.

“Hey, listen, I get it. While I was tying up loss ends
,
I did the research. I know that she
'
s quirky, I get that. Damn it
,
though, jumping from windows and shit, are you s
ure
she doesn’t need meds?” Simon finally sighed
,
as if it were a burden
—one he’d
have to carry for the rest of his life. Cherri looked at Calli and then they both stood.

“Think before you speak, Mr. Asshole,” they heard Vivi say from behind them.
The mom
s and dads had entered the
room
—i
t was
not
good. Vivi used to be the leader of the group until Calli stepped up. Now she was respectfully the Retired Bitch, and Brenda and Shelly were just as scary.

“My daughter is eccentric
,
” Brenda said and put her hand to her chest. “I really don’t think I like your tone
,
Mister. I think possibly
that
my excitement of my bab
y finding her mate is a bit pre
mature. Maybe you
'
re not good enough for her.”

Vivi slowly walked into the room. Simon felt
as if
he was a bug under a microscope and they were dissecting him
—i
t was not good. He hadn’t meant anything by
it. However, so far, his mate had
screamed when she met him, called him a ‘
murderer
’
,
‘psycho
’
,
and now had
run away from him because he was here. This was not good.

“Ma’am, I apologize for what I said, I
'
m frustrated
, b
ut seriously, she is a little bent. I was not joking when I said I thought she was going to need help. Maybe we could have a nice, padded room made for her.
I can hire the best shifter psychologists in the world to help
,
” Simon said slowly, knowing that with one wrong move, he was going to be toast.
Shit, could his day get any worse?

Simon Harding was his real name. He had been undercover for so long
that
when someone called him Simon, sometimes he still didn’t answer. He knew that his mate was here at Christmas; it had taken everything in him to leave and wrap up the undercover assignment he had been on for the last six years.
Ms. Praton
was the only one who knew his true identity. Even
Brooks
had been in the dark, Simon insisted on it before he even accepted the assignment. The humans asked for someone to infiltrate the
Ulfer
, and he volunteered. After today, his cover was completely blown; he knew it, as did Kade. They agreed on how he was going to handle leaving.

His exit had been dangerous, he went to the Prentiss Agency, and made sure he pulled out the information they needed. He was u
nable to get the sensitive document
s he wanted to get. Kade didn’t blame him or yell at him though
,
he was a true leader. Simon felt lucky he was a part of the Pack now. His mate was another
issue
.
H
e always dreamed of finding his mate, and what happened at Christmas had blown his mind.

Vivi excused herself and walked out into the corridor. Her friends stood next to one of the most beautiful men Vivi had ever seen. Seriously, her husband was handsome, Kade was ruggedly handsome, and Cherri’s men
were
gorgeous.
However,
this man, he was truly beautiful. His hair was
a strange color, the only color
she could think of was caramel, and it hung down his back in a shimmering blanket. His face was smooth, and it held a hint of humor as she stared at him
. Gr
e
y eyes, strong, thin nose
and chiseled cheeks, with a wide
,
full mouth most women would drool over. He was tall, well over six
foot
,
and broad, oh
yeah,
he had the muscles, too.

“Who the hell is this?”
Vivi said and then slapped her hand over her mouth.
“Sorry,”
she said sheepishly when the man laughed
.

“No problem,” he said and Vivi almost swooned, even his voice was perfect; it was deep, smooth, and flowed over her like the most perfectly tuned piano.

Brenda was blushing, she held up a hand and whispered loudly, as if he couldn’t hear, “This is Simon.”

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Vivi said, opened, and closed her mouth. This was Rissa's serial killer mate. “He's the serial killer?”

Once again, the man laughed and said, “Not the last time I looked, but I get why you are saying that. I promise, no slaughtering of the innocent today. I am just here to spend time with the Alpha and the Pack. Why?”

“Just come with me!” Vivi said and pulled the tall, large man
behind
her.

They entered the room and Vivi paused looking for her target. Rissa sat on the floor with her dog, Billy B, making him do tricks for pieces of turkey and laughing. Calli and Cherri were sitting with her with their pups that refused to move out of their owner's laps, instead sleeping. Perfect.

Kade stood up and looked around with concern when he saw who was here. Vivi grinned when she saw the look of panic come over him. He knew exactly what was coming.

Rissa’s head snapped up, her eyes narrowed
,
and she sniffed before letting out a blood-curdling scream. “HIDE THE CHILDREN! ARM THE MEN! THERE IS A MURDERER ON THE LOOSE! HURRY, HE'S GONNA KILL US ALL!”

Vivi put her hand back up to her mouth as she watched Rissa running around the room, shoving the confused children out of the room with their parents.

“DAM
N
IT, KADE, WHY AREN’T YOU BLOWING THE HORN, SOUND THE SIREN, WE HAVE TO KILL HIM BEFORE HE KILLS US. WEEIIOOO, WEEIIOO! THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS A REAL LIFE KILLER.”

Calli put her head in her hands and Vivi could see her shoulders shaking as her best friend lost it completely in front of her new mate.

“WEEIIOO, WEEIIOO, BILLY B, ATTACK, ATTACK.” And the small little ball of fur ran for the beautiful man and grabbed his pant leg.

“Uh, Merry Christmas?” the man said a
s
Rissa stopped in front of him and put her hands on her hips.

“Oh really? So that’s how we are gonna play this, huh? Innocent, hot man walks into a room. Lull us all into a false sense of reality and then WHA
M! Off with our heads, right?”
Rissa yelled.

“Does she need medication?” the man whispered to Vivi, who laughed and shook her head.

“No this is Rissa, and Rissa this is…” Vivi started.

“I know who the hell this is, and I won't do it, you can't make me. DADDY!! I refuse the mating. I refuse to be alone with him,” Rissa yelled and then got into his face. “I know every pressure point in the body. I can kill you with two fingers.”

“OOOK
AYY?!” the man said.

“Shit, Calli, get her under control,” Kade demanded and pulled Rissa back as she started wind milling her arms and legs as if she was going to fight the large, stunned, handsome man.