Drekinn 3 - Reaching Rissa (9 page)

Reaching Rissa

Drekinn
Series

Book Three

Author: Jana Leigh

Editor: Rose Colton

Artwork by JK Publishing, Inc.

Published by JK Publishing, Inc.

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January
2013
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Dedication:

I have written so many dedications in the last few years I believe I have thanked everyone. So I am using this dedication to talk about this series. The Drekinn is truly my favorite series that I write, I can be wild and wacky, and most of all I use it to take out my frustrations, so beware when you are reading this.

I apologize to my fans for the long wait, I promise this will not happen again, I a
m
working on the final Dangerous now and it will be out soon, life kinda got into the way.

I would love to hear from you!

Website:
www.janaleighauthor.com

Prologue

Rissa snuck out the window of her room. Who really gave a shit that it was on the second floor of the main
h
ome
on the compound
of the Drekinn Pack
’
s hideout? Who cared if she was going to ha
ve to jump into the thick bushes
that surrounded the house? Who cared if her friends were going to kick her ass, and her mother would yell at her from the embarrassment of it all? Who really cared, because Rissa was not going to be mated to a crazy fucking psycho, they all assured her over the last month that he was not who or what he seemed
.
However, she wasn’t stupid, she watched the television. There are men all over the world who lure their victims into a false sense of security, and them BAM! He kills you!

Well, not her
—
Mr.
Twisted Mate
had been the phantom strange man they chased for the last few years. There was no way he wasn’t exactly what they thought he was, a fucking
weirdo, she saw the tapes. However,
no, she refused to make him pull his pants down and find out if he had a birthmark like the one she had to stare at when she endured watching the surveillance videos.
The videos were
just wrong.
However, it
was not the strange sex he seemed to enjoy that scared the piss out of her
. S
he thought a tap or two on the ass
would
be enjoyable.
No
,
it was the torture she
’d
watched that made her shiver in disgust.

She knew what she saw, and the man who appeared in front of her at Christmas suddenly had been the man who she saw electrocute and cut several Magical Beings in the last few years. As members of the Drekinn Agency, they were honor bound to uphold the laws of the Regulation Community.

The Com
mu
nity was made up of humans and only two shifters. One was the head of the Dreki
n
n Agency, which at the time was Ms. Praton, and Brooks, her right hand man. Now they were banned, since everything went to hell in a h
andbasket a few months ago. The situation
was just so confus
ing when it actually happened. However,
right now
,
she had to deal with the present, she had to get the hell out of
t
here.

Rissa told her friends she wasn
’
t going to mate with the sick bastard, but they had both laughed at her. She was pissed, her friend’s betrayal was just enough to push her right over the edge,
see if they
get
this message
. Rissa already had to endure a lecture from her mother, and if that wasn
’
t scary enough, Vivi, Calli’s mom
,
actually gave her pointers on how to deal with a dominant man. Rissa grimaced and closed her eyes
,
which
was
a nightmare in and of
it
self
. However, that added to the Treacherous Bitches, Rissa was done.

She packed a bag with supplies, clothes, and food. She wasn
’
t completely inept
as
her friends thought. She knew she couldn’t go back to New York, shit
,
she was like on the most wanted list. DEAD OR ALIVE… FORMER MEMBERS OF
THE DREKINN AGENCY.
Her mother loved it
. H
owever
,
it did put a bit of a damper on meeting a normal man, which is what she wanted.
T
hat too
was
completely fucked up,
Rissa thought.

Picture it, Christmas morning, opening presents
,
and having fun with family and friends, the first fun the
y had for months. They were on the run f
r
o
m the whole fucking world, and in their own little compound, a sliver of joy had been there. Rissa loved Christmas, now it was the ban
e of her existence b
ecause she w
ould
always remember the day she found o
ut her mate was a psychopath
murderer, on her favorite holiday.

They teased her mercilessly for a month and
thus
,
the reason for her escape. The dreaded holiday if you didn’t have a date or a mate
—
Valentine
'
s
Day
. She refu
sed to acknowledge the fact
that they were mates, so therefore
she did the only thing she could, planned her escape.

For the last few weeks
,
she ho
arded food slowly in her room
and then she made sure she dug aroun
d and found simple camping gear
and other supplies. Now she was ready. Thankfully, it was right when she knew the
Twisted Mate
was set to appear. He supposedly
was undercover with the
Ulfer
.
R
ight,
as if
he could have been undercover for the last few years while the
Bondi King
tortured and killed many of their own
—
Shifters.

Rissa paused and waited
,
listening closely to make sure no one was lurking in the corridor waiting. She knew her friends had been making plans for her and the
Twisted Mate
to meet again. The meeting
had go
ne so fabulously before,
you know, however
,
they thought it would work now
.
Rissa snorted, her friends were just this side of fucking nuts themselves, especially if they thought she would go quietly.

Rissa peered over the windowsill again and took a deep breath. She could do this, if not, she would probably be bound and gagged by her friends tomorrow, that
’s
when they set the whole meeting up. Well, she wasn
’
t going to be
t
here. For the last few weeks when she shifted and ran, Rissa scoped out a place for her to hide. She found one by the south border of the compound
’s
land.

To make a long story short, Calli, Cherri, and herself had been employees of the Drekinn Agency. The Agency was developed to monitor and regulate the Shifter and Magical Community with the humans.
Nowadays, the world's
infrastructure
was a lot different. Each of the countries had an ambassador, and they sat on the World Assembly Congress, or the WAC. In July 20, 2236, the WAC was formed because the economic crisis finally reached epic proportions and all the countries collectively declared bankruptcy. It was a tremulous time, and all due to the war they had waged on the
Breyting
, although no one would admit it. Each country tried to round up the
Breyting
and cage them. None of them realized that it was impossible to round them all up. Some humans had the DNA strand and didn't even know it. Basically, they shot themselves in the foot, and then the
Breyting
helped them reorganize.

Callie and her friends had wanted to be a part of the Drekinn Agency from the first day they saw Ms. Praton announce she was heading up the Agency for the regulation of the
Breyting
and
Ulfer
world. The humans had no clue how to deal with
them
, so they quickly handed it over to Ms. Praton. There were positive and negatives to that. Basically, if everything was running smoothly, then the WAC patted
them
on the back for thinking of letting the
animals police themselves. However,
if a highly public
Ulfer
incident happened, they tried to flex
—i
t never worked. Ms. Praton was one scary dragon when she was pissed, well
,
her name was actually Pilar, but that was another story.

For years
,
they had done their job, making rank, and rising in the company until they were all at the top of their field. Calli was the Head Enforcer, Cherri the Lead Medical Advisor, and Rissa was the Head of the Technological Section. Then it all went wonky when Calli’s mate showed up. Rissa loved
Kade;
however
,
he was the catalyst of sorts when it came
to
this whole prophecy
drama
. Who the hell knew what they were sup
posed to do, other than survive?

The
Ulfer
were shifters
,
who
,
for one reason or another
,
had a missing gene in their DNA, it made them just a bit crazy, and the head of the
craz
ies
was a man called the
Bondi King
. Mr.
Twisted Mate
was the
Bondi King’s
right hand man. The
Ulfer
wanted to use the humans for their own gain. They basically
thought
that humans were the inferior race. It
really
was a mess
. H
umans couldn’t
regulate the magical community
so they had the Drekinn, now somehow all of that change
d
. The contract was taken away from the Drekinn and given to another company, the Prentiss
Agency,
which
was led by the
Bondi King
, even if the humans were unaware of it. Rissa and her friends w
ere on the run
,
labeled as Most W
anted
,
because they refused to be nice
,
little sheep and follow.

They all escaped
New York
City
to a huge compound hidden right inside New York State
and
they could still go into the city, although
in disguise.
Rissa refused to hide in the city
alone
—
it would be stupid.
In addition
, she thought as she climbed out the window
,
balanced on the ledge
,
and looked around
,
stupidity did not run in her family
.

Walking
th
rough the main halls wasn
’
t going to be possible,
because
they would notice she was carrying the huge back
pack containing all of the item
s she needed in order to survive in the wild
for a few days
—s
he hoped. Now
here she stood on a ledge, looking down, wondering how he
r
life had taken such a wrong turn.

She knew it started all those years ago when she met Calli and Cherri. It was their fault; it would totally serve them right if she never spoke to them ever again
—w
hich
could
certainly
happen, if she
broke her neck jumping down from the second story of the compound
’s house
. Taking a deep breath
,
Rissa got ready to jump when she heard Calli and Cherri’s voice coming from inside her room.

“Damn it
,
Ris, where the fuck are you?” Calli bellowed and Rissa paused. She didn’t want to make a sound, their damn wolf hearing would give her away, and she would be damned if she got caught now.

“Calli, she
'
s hiding because she knows she made an
ass out of herself on Christmas
and doesn’t want to face the
man again. I mean who would, '
Weeiioo, Weeiioo
'
, that
'
s enough to have a hard
-
on go soft when you scent your mate.
Then
she challenged him in front
of the whole fucking Pack? WOW!
” Cherri laughed.

Shit, she wasn’t afraid to meet the man, why did they insist on
refusing to believe the obvious?
He was a butt ass
,
crazy murderer who she was not going to have little murderess or murderer cubs with. She refused to produce a clan of killers
—i
t was that simple. Plus, did they forget the whole sex vid
?
R
eally.
Bitches
, Rissa thought and then opened her mouth to say it again to them when she remembered where she was.
Shit, hiding, duh
.

“I know, but ya gotta love the fact that she tried to kill him. I mean no one saw her grabbing my Ch
ristmas gift and protecting the
‘family
,
’” Calli said smugly.