Broken Legacy

Chapter 6

A blazing red wolf stood before me, his fur looked like fire, his eyes were bright red. His teeth were bared as he semi growled at me. His wolf was taller than my human height at 6 ft 2, my breath caught as I looked into his eyes. 

"Mate." It slipped from my lips and his ears pricked forward. His head tilted before he sniffed the air, he licked his nose and took a step forward. I did the same, we were one inch from each other as our eyes stayed locked. There was no sound other than my heavy breathing, I was trying to breath in his scent like it was the last time I would smell it. 

My stomach and heart did back flips as my mate shifted into his human form. His hair was red as fire, his eyes red as fire. His face was sharp and angular, his cheek bones pronounced. His skin was a pale beige, his face was littered with freckles and his chin was covered by a fiery beard. 

"Riley." I said lightly, his lips twitched and I took it as a good sign. I reached out boldly and took his hand. He hissed as sparks ignited under our skin. "Your name?" 

"D'yavol." He said in his thick Russian accent. "You should have run Riley." He growled, his eyes dark and a vicious sneer on his lips. "I don't take mercy on anyone, you will be no different." Hazard whimpered in my head and I mirrored her on the outside. I blinked and let out a deep breath, with a dark chuckle. I took my hand away from him and looked at the sky with a sneer. 

"You really hate me don't you?" I asked the moon goddess. I turned back to my mate who was looking at me with narrowed eyes. "Do your worst D'yavol." I said to him easily, he growled and looked behind me, nodded once. I felt a pressure on my shoulder before the rest of my world went black. 

.......Paxton...... 

I smiled at my mate as we danced with one another. She was a hair shorter than me, which I felt was perfect. She was all I saw until I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder, I grabbed my shoulder and looked over at Talia who was holding hers too. Hadley and Indigo were doing the same...Riley. I began to panic as did my siblings when we couldn't find Riley. 

"Riley!" I shouted into the crowd, everyone stopped dancing and looked at one another. "RILEY!" I shouted again, this time the panic spread to the rest of our family. 

"RILEY!" This time it was dad who's voice boomed, no reply. Glacier whimpered, afraid for our sister, a bad feeling ate away at my gut. I shifted into my wolf and howled for her as I ran outside, the rest of my siblings following along. My father and mother's wolves joined us, as did Blake and Esarie. We tracked her scent for a mile before we smelled the blood rouges. We all howled again, getting no reply. Her scent stopped abruptly and I we all began howling, calling for her and Hazard. Our mates joined us and snarled at the smell of the blood rouges. 

......Riley......

I groaned as I opened my eyes, I was in a cold dark place. I sat up and looked around before wiping the running snot from the tip of my freezing nose. My body began to shiver and I had to clench my jaw to keep my teeth from clacking. The sound of a lock caught my ears and I looked to my left as a door shaped hole opened in the room letting in light. 

A tall figure stood in the doorway, I must have been in a freezer type room for vegetables and s**t. I shivered again and wiped away more boogers. The figure walked closer and squatted down so he could see my face. I looked up into the face of my mate as I shivered again. 

"I thought you were crying." He said tilting his head, I laughed lightly before I shivered again. 

"If I ever cry in front of you mark it on the calendar." I told him while pulling my knees to my chest, trying to preserve whatever warmth I still had. "I'm cold blooded and need sun or fire to stay warm." I heard him snort before he stood up and walked back to the door. 

"This room is kept at 72 degrees you'll be fine." He left, the door closing behind him. I sighed deeply and shook as I waited for him to come back. I began to yawn as I shook, it was hard to stay awake as my fingers and toes went numb. I stopped shivering and my entire body felt like a rock sinking into the water. I refused to give in and stayed awake for as long as I could. 

My eyes began to droop when the door to the room opened again, I was too frozen to do anything. Hell I felt like I was Anna from the movie Frozen when she turned into a solid block of ice. I didn't feel anything as I took a deep freezing breath. Then heat began to flood my senses, I sighed and reveled in the warmth. I wanted to get closer to the source so I moved toward the heat I didn't care when I felt a scorching flame at the tip of my toes. I shivered in delight as my skin began to turn red, I turned and got my back some heat before opening my eyes. I was looking at a large fire, in the middle of the room. I didn't care as I finally stood up and got as close as possible, Hazard purred as we finally reached our desired temperature. 

"You weren't kidding." I looked at the door where my mate stood leaning against the door frame. 

"Do I look like a liar to you?" I asked him sassily while rolling my eyes. He growled and took a menacing step toward me, I stood my ground unwilling to leave the warmth of the fire. 

"You better watch your tone Riley." If it hadn't been for the events of the day my arousal at his tone and deep Russian accent would have been known for a thousand miles. Right then though, I was too pissed off at not being marked and mated to him already. 

"And what if I choose not to, are you going to punish me?" He snarled and walked up so he was right before me. His hand reached up and grabbed my throat, squeezing it tightly. 

"Or I could kill you."

"Why haven't you then?" I challenged. "No mercy for anyone, I highly doubt you would spare anyone else who dared challenge you. Unfortunately for you I have the biggest balls than anyone else you will ever meet. I don't take anything laying down." He snarled and squeezed harder cutting off my air supply. 

"You're correct, no mercy for anyone." His red eyes were lit by a fire of fury. 

"Then...kill....me." I managed to get out, if it were anyone else I would have blown them across the room, but he was my mate, and I could never harm him like that. He snarled and held me for another minute by my neck before letting me go, dropping me to the ground like trash. 

"Where is the fun in that?" He asked. "I want to watch the hope of me ever loving you bleed from your eyes. I never wanted a fated mate, and I never will."

"Well I'm not willing to die a virgin if you aren't going to kill me now, so send your best guys in so I can have a good fuck." He whipped around, his eyes blazing again. His hair looked like flames atop his head as he bounded back over to me. His hand went back to my neck, holding it tight as he glared down at me. 

"No one is going to be touching you." He sneered with an angry snarl. "You are mine!" I held back my victorious smirk as he threw me back to the ground, looking at me as if I had burned him. He sneered at me once more before storming from the room, closing the door behind him. The fire went out and I heard myself whimper at the loss of heat. Hazard growled at me for pissing off our mate as she paced in my head. 

'I did it on purpose Haz, I wanted him to admit that I was his." She growled lightly and licked her nose before laying down with a light purr, remembering him calling us his. Hours passed and my temperature dropped once again. Only this time my mate did not appear, there was no fire to keep Hazard and I warm. As my heart rate began to plummet I did the only thing I could think of and shifted into my wolf form. Not even covered in fur could I get warm, my heart rate dropped to low for me to stay awake and my vision began to blur before fading to black. 

"WAKE UP!" It was an echo of a whisper in my head as I layed in the darkness with hazard curled up together as we froze. I whimpered in pleasure as fire flooded my veins heating my body, starting at my core and working it's way through me. I opened my eyes as my heart began sending blood to the right places, waking me up. 

I noticed I was still in my wolf form as I basked in the glorious heat. I looked up at my mate who was watching me with a burning stare. Another fire was lit, and it was burning beside me. I licked my nose and got as close as possible before laying on my stomach and resting my head on my paws. My eyes closed as the fire raised my freezing temperature. 

"You have a scar in both forms." He said curiously. I sighed and shifted, my bare body on display as I looked at him. 

"Barbed wire fence before I shifted." I told him before turning so I could look into the flames. 

"How do you usually stay warm?" 

"I don't." 

"Then how do you usually not get so cold you almost die?" His voice was cold and emotionless. 

"Thought you wanted me dead." I said just as coldly. "So why bother asking?" He snarled as I kept my face to the dancing flames. 

"You'll die when I permit it, not before then." He snarled at me. "Now answer my question." I finally looked at him and shrugged before turning back to the fire. 

"Never been this cold." My words were soft as I spoke. "It's like you made it worse D'yavol." I looked at his anger ridden face as he snarled and glared. 

"I told you, you should have run." I huffed a breath of air before looking at the fire on his head, down to his black boots. I noticed a dark tattoo on his left wrist. 

"Eh....What would be the fun in that." My left hand went to the gecko and gently rubbed it as I looked away from him. "You may not care, but I've been waiting on you since I learned about mates. I would rather die having met you than live a life without, no matter how much of a grumpy ass you are." He was silent for a while before he turned and left the room. Once he was gone the fire went out and I looked down at my feet and sighed. 

"At least now I don't have to see everyone else all happy and cute with their mates." I shifted so I wasn't as bare and layed on the ground where the fire had been, the scorching cement keeping me warm as I fell asleep.