“I take it that that was the human?” Rieka asked the Alpha King as she picked up her clothes from the floor and laid them out on the chair in her room. She didn’t know why, but the sight of the girl and his sister had somehow ruined the male Lyken’s mood, turning him from the teasing, passionate man from two hours ago into his usual dark, broody alter ego.
Rieka hated this version of him.
She had known him since they were mere pups, and she, him, Lobo, Xavier, and Henderson had practically been an inseparable squad growing up. Reed Alderon Winchester had been the charming boy of their little squad, the one who had come to her defense most of the time when the others made crass jokes about her being a tomboy. He had been handsome even then, but it was his even more lovely personality th
