Dorthena

by Sharon Barrett

  Ryker swore under his breath, “Oh what the hell I am not on a job right now any way. Cullen damn now they were a pair and Thena couldn’t’ handle them both. If I keep out of sight she might not know I am there, and I can help her out with out her knowledge. Awe shit, damn me, she’ll know! Ryker packed up his stuff, called a cab. Ryker lived in a penthouse apartment on the thirty first floor, a private elevator had to be used to get to his apartment only he know the combination to operate it other then Thena. As Ryker walked out the front door he was picked up and taken to the air port. Ryker hoped into his plane after packing it up with necessary items to do the job. He would fly out tonight do a lay over and start again in the morning reach Little River by early evening.

  Ryker called Ned the next day on the phone, “Ned I am on my way I’ll be in Little River by tonight don’t tell Thena I am in the area. I am flying in and I have a new plane so Thena won’t know it is me. I will rent a vehicle and get a room at some hotel or motel. Where is Thena staying at?”

  “She is staying in the only motel in town room twenty-three so that leaves you cabins or at the hotel.” Ned smiled. “Thanks Ryker I appreciate your being there for her! Ryker I haven’t been able to contact Thena this morning, I am worried!”

  “Well like you said Ned, I could not live with myself if I never saw that cute ass again.” Ryker laughed and hung up his cell phone, stuck it in his shirt pocket.

  Thena was in the shower she was thinking of Ryker. Thena could not get over him no matter how hard she tried. His face would come to mind and she would feel hot between the legs. She wondered why she was thinking of him so much lately. She just was not sure if it was the danger she was in or if so many things lately reminded her of him. After a long hot bath Thena blew her hair dry, brushed her teeth, put on clean clothes and stepped out of the bathroom to find a gun pointing at her from the side of the door. Thena threw up her arm knocking the gun out of the woman’s hand, punches were flying from both women, and Thena put up one hell of a fight, two night tables fall over, small table to eat at had two broken legs. The Cullen woman pulled a knife and sliced down her arm. Then Thena was hit from behind and down she went. When Thena woke up she found herself tied to a chair with a rope made of hemp. Cullen the man was standing over her. “Where is Seeker?”

  Thena looked up at him, “Don’t know where he is, do not fucking care either!” The son of a bitch tried to rape me! So I don’t fucking care?”

  Cullen slapped her hard across the face with the back of his hand, “Not the right answer Thena, where is Seeker?”

  Thena looked at him, “does it make you feel like a man to slap around a woman Cullen? I don’t know where he is?”

  Cullen only reply was a punch in the face. “Lets start again bitch where is Seeker?”

  “I don’t fucking no, what part of I don’t fucking no; don’t you understand ass hole?” Thena said.

  Cullen pulled back his fist and slammed it into Thena’s face.

  Cullen turned to his wife, “get some water she is out cold again sweet heart!”

  Cullen’s mate smiled warmly, “sure baby right away.” Cullen’s wife leaned over and gave him a kiss.

  When Cullen dumped the glass of water all over Thena’s face she came too. Thena spit water and looked at Cullen through one eye, the other one was swelling shut. “Ryker hears what you did to me your dead meat Cullen.”

  Cullen began to laugh, “He doesn’t give a rats ass about you any more Thena, the last time I saw Ryker he had a whore sitting on his lap. Now bitch were is Seeker?” Cullen said with a smile.

  “I don’t fucking no so fuck off you bastard!” Thena said through clinched teeth. Thena was stubborn when the mood stuck her and it had stuck her full force. The harder Cullen pushed the more she refused to answer his questions.

  “Cullen said I think I can get you to talk bitch.”

  Cullen reached down ripped Thena’s top slightly.

  Cullen reached in to one of her breasts and pinched down hard on one of her nipples, Thena cried out in pain. “Now talk bitch!”

  Thena began to cry, “I don’t fucking no!”

  Cullen lost his temper and slammed the butt end of his gun down and across Thena’s jaw!” Thena was out cold. Cullen’s mate tossed water on her it didn’t do any good. They would have to wait for her to come around on her own. Cullen’s temper was lost and he slapped Thena around blackened her other eye, split her lip. Then he sat down and waited for Thena to come around.

  Betty smiled at Cullen, “Cullen make love to me baby I need it, all this has turned me on. Please stick that big cock of yours in me baby and drive me crazy. Cullen smiled.

  Cullen watched Betty walk to him he pulled her down on the bed and fucked Betty long and hard until she screamed his name and came all over his shaft. Then Cullen worked it a few more times and came in side of her. Slowly they dressed and smiled at each other. Cullen smiled, “sex is always at its best with you Betty when we are working.

  An hour later Cullen looked at his watch damn it’s nearly seventy thirty already. Thena moaned and moved her head.

  Cullen stood up, “Now Thena why don’t you be a real sweet heart of a girl and just tell me what I want to know and I will walk out of here letting you live if you keep telling me to fuck off I am going to kill you! Now sweet heart where is Seeker?”

  Thena couldn’t see a thing her eyes were both swollen completely shut, her jaw ached something awful, her head hurt beyond anything she ever felt before. She began to cry silently. “I don’t know where Seeker is I left him yesterday he did not tell me he had travelled plans.

  Cullen screamed, Wrong fucking answer,” Cullen slapped Thena across the face.

  Ryker landed his plane at seven thirty and rented a crew cab truck loaded his stuff into it and drove into town. Ryker decided to rent a cabin near the motel so he could watch Thena. He left the rental truck parked out side the cabin.

  Once he was settled in he decided to take a walk around town. It was hard to not be noticed Ryker was six foot three and a half, had coal black hair, blue eyes, perfect set of teeth, and a smile women seem to love about him and found irresistible. His body was well muscled he knew women appreciated it physical attributes. He was however missing part of one ear lobe, a nick in his right ear. It would get itchy when it got cold, he scowled Thena had nicked his ear with one of her claws and tore off a piece of his ear lobe. Suddenly the fight came back to him and he stopped walking while waiting for a light to change from green to red.

  He never dreamed she would try to stand up to him that day they parted. They had both lost there tempers and both of them had a bad one, it was seldom lost once it was, it was out of control. They argued over putting a client in danger, and saving his hide. He didn’t want to hurt her, but he had, he dislocated her shoulder, and had broken her arm in the fight. When screaming and yelling at one another got lost tempers flare and Thena shifted into a panther. He shifted down into a werewolf then had to shift so that he was between the two to get the best of Thena. He felt disgusted with himself for his actions. In return she had nicked his ear, cut him up with her claws pretty bad, and when it came down to losing blood it was him not her. She had shifted down into a cat and he was a werewolf Ryker learned quickly never fight with Thena unless you mean to kill her. Ryker started walking again, then a girl came up to him, mister got a cigarette?” The girl said with a smile.

  Ryker smiled, “No don’t smoke,”

  The girl smiled “I am Faye thirty dollars will get you laid, a blow is twenty, or I can jerk you off for ten bucks” she said with a smile.

  Ryker looked down at the girl, she could not have been more then eighteen, she stood about five feet tall, had big brown eyes to large for her face, he smiled, and she was not at all that good looking. He thought actually it might work if the guy kept his eyes closed. One second thought he wouldn’t screw her if she was the only woman left on earth. Humanity would be doomed! “No thanks got a wife.” That was not true but i
t usually made the young girls disappear quickly. And it worked well. Ryker smiled this time it worked like a charm. Unfortunately it didn’t work on the older whores, they didn’t care if he was married or not. Then a stern no damn way usually worked on them. Ryker came to the motel looked at the room number Ned had given him. Room twenty-three the lights were on. He could not see in side the room from a distance the curtains were closed, but an uneasy feeling came over him. Ryker’s inner wolf growled. He walked silently up to her door and listened. He heard what sounded like a slap, then a voice, “where the hell is he bitch?”

  Muffled words sounding like, “take a fast shit for your self Cullen.”

  Cullen leaned into Thena, “Where is Seeker bitch?”

  “Thena said in a voice that did not sound like hers, “Fuck off!”

  Suddenly Cullen grabbed her slapped her and then, dragged her across the room, pick Thena up laid her across the top of a long dresser. “Sweetheart,” Cullen said to his wife, “get a pitcher of water and let’s see if she can breathe water. When she finds out she can not maybe she will answer my questions!”

  Cullen’s wife walked into the bathroom and came out two minutes later with a pitcher of water and a hand towel and slowly pinned Thena’s head down so she could not move it, and drained the pitcher of water over Thena’s face. Thena tried to move her head to avoid the water but couldn’t Thena began choking and spitting up water!

  Ryker heard muffled words that sounded like fuck off by a female’s voice, and another slap in the face. Ryker listened closer to the door he heard muffled sounds like some one being dragged a short distance. Ryker moved towards the window and looked in through a small slit in the curtains. The room was a mess, it appeared Thena had put up a good fight tables were on there sides some were broken. He saw Thena up on a dresser with a towel being put over her face, and then a woman came out of the bathroom and started dumping water over her face she either took in the water or could not breathe. When they stopped the towel was removed and Thena threw up water, and was choking. Ryker had seen enough he had to act and act now or they were going to kill her. The man was screaming at Thena, “Where is he you fucking bitch?” Cullen said while digging his fingers into Thena’s arms.

  Ryker went to the door and knocked no answer so he knocked again. The room was silent he walked back to the window and Thena was on the floor being held down with a hand over her mouth, he could not see the female figured she was either behind the door or had slipped out of sight in the room. He went back and knocked again. Nothing so he pretended to leave the area making loud noise as he walked away. Then Ryker slipped back silently to the window and looked in. Thena was sitting in a chair her hands were tied behind her back, she had two black eyes, which were swollen shut, a split lip that was bleeding, nose was bleeding and her jaw appeared to be swollen. She also had a few black and blue marks on her arms, her right arm had been bleeding. He looked closely at Thena then at the man. The man had blood on him, his face was clawed up bad, and he limped slightly as he moved around the room. Ryker watched as the man gave Thena a shake and when she tried to looked at him he asked her,” where is Seeker?” When she told him to fuck off again and he punched her in the face the blow had knocked Thena out.

  Chapter 4

  Ryker went to the door and hit it hard landed on the floor rolled and fired his nine millimetres with the silencer on it and the man went down, the woman was not in sight. Where the hell did she go? He checked the room top to bottom and decided she must have gone out the open window in the bathroom. Ryker untied Thena got a cloth and put it over her nose and lip. Ryker tied a piece of the sheet on her arm. Once the bleeding had stopped Ryker picked her up carried her to the cabin he was renting, removed her clothes washed her body of blood with a warm cloth and placed her in his bed. He noticed a red mark on her shoulder turned her over and another one was on her shoulder blade. She had been shot and from the looks of the wound lost a lot of blood and it had been within the past day or so since the mark was still visible. Suddenly he was filled with anger that ran deep inside him and it wanted to burst forth. Ryker hit the bedroom door with his fist. He felt better then!

  He then walked the block to the motel room collected all of Thena’s clothes and items including guns and carried them back to his room. When he went back the third time he picked up the man who lay dead on the floor and carried his body to the truck and drove off. Once the body was disposed of he drove back to the cabin. Ryker had been gone for over an hour. As he drove back to the cabin he wondered how Thena was. It was good to see her again, he had missed her, and it was like part of his heart had gone a stray and now it was back where it belonged.

  Ryker used his key and opened the door to the cabin. Walked in silently and worked his way to his bed room. Thena was still out cold in the bed. He smiled she was still beautiful, her eyes were swollen shut, she had a fat lip, and her jaw was swollen and he could not get over how beautiful she still was in his eyes. He thought to himself; too think her beautiful in the condition she was in it had to be nothing short of pure unadulterated love of the purest kind. It had been a year since they parted, he had mellowed a little, missed her like hell.

  He whispered to her, “there has been no one else but you love. There never will be; we belong together, I just wish you would realize it.” He would not force her to come to him, she had to come to him on her own terms, and he would wait even if it took forever, or the time never came at all.

  Ryker smiled, he had been born on the rise of the full moon. His Father was an alpha male had a small pack in the states. If his mother had waited another three days he would have been born on the full moon. He was a leader, take charge kind of guy, he loved deeply, would always be faithful no matter what; would think before he acted. He had a temper, but lost it so seldom most thought he did not have one. However, when he did lose it, damn the world he was a bull in china shop. When push came to shove he shoved back and he shoved back hard. Ryker was very manipulating alpha male. He would if he could manipulate destiny when possible. He was romantic most times with the female he was with, always buying flowers, or candy or taking them out to eat, always remembered anniversaries. He was also a patient lover making sure the female enjoyed herself as much as he did. He had to admit since Thena and him split, he didn’t make love he just had sex for the release and didn’t care about who he was with, or if they were satisfied or not. The whores he was with wanted it over quick get there money and leave which suited him.

  Slowly and carefully he slipped Thena’s night grown on to her body. Walking back to the living room he smiled, “she needs me right now, whether she likes it or not.”

  Ryker fixed himself a sandwich and some soup and a salad. As he sat there and ate he decided it would be wise to sleep on the couch such as it was. After looking at the couch for about three minutes he decided against that. In stead he made up a bed on the floor out of some quilts and blankets and spare sheets, shut off the lights, crawled in with a t-shirt on and a pair of briefs. The bed was made up next to the door so all he had to do was reach out and grab someone trying to leave or enter the bedroom. He made sure that with the lights off he could not be seen from any direction. He appeared to be nothing more then a shadow on the floor.

  During the night Ryker woke up to hear, Thena crying and calling his name. Ryker got up and walked into the bedroom and listened to her cries, she was moaning half the time, and crying the other half. In side it all she was calling to Ryker, at one point he heard her say, “I love you Ryker now and always have loved you.” Then he heard, “no Seeker don’t do it, no please don’t Ryker!” Thena’s words disappeared in a quick inhale and her tears.

  Ryker wondered who the hell is Seeker, why was she begging him not to do something what did she say raw don’t ray. Hell that doesn’t make sense. Don’t’ rap, suddenly his fist hit the door and wood splintered he tried to rape her, I will kill the son of a bitch. He won’t live another day if I find out he actually raped her! Thena never
heard his fist hit the door, nor did she hear Ryker swearing.

  When Thena fall back into a deep sleep Ryker stood there frowning at her, “so you never stopped loving me sweetheart. Well then this might not be as difficult as I thought it might be to get you to see we belong together.” Ryker turned got back into his make shift bed and fall a sleep while wondering who Seeker was and how he was going to kill the bastard, and what else had he done to Thena.

  When the sun light came into the window, he woke looked around it took him a minute to realize where he was then he jumped up and looked in the bedroom door. Thena was still in bed a sleep thank goodness. He looked at her and his shaft grew hard and bigger then normal and he had to get his shaft down before Thena woke and saw him. He rushed off to the bathroom, used the toilet and took a quick shower, a cool one and came out. He stretched his arms and legs and muscles to work the kinks out of them from sleeping on the floor.

  Ryker checked on Thena and she was still a sleep. He wondered about that since she was an early riser so the fact that it was already eight in the morning and her still in bed had him concerned. He walked into the bed rested his hand against her forehead it felt fine, cool to the touch. He listened to her breathing and it sounded a little rattled, but that did not surprise him with having water forced down her throat and nose. He placed his hand under the sheets and touched her leg and it was warm. He pulled his hand out and looked at her face and smiled she was just a sleep. He should not have been surprised with the lost blood from the gun shot wound and after last night it will take a little time for her too recuperate from the ordeals. Cats may have nine lives he thought, but it takes them a little longer to recover then werewolves. But she was also a werewolf, but leaned more towards the cats.