Ryder ~ Wolf Dominion

Volume 2 Chapter 51

Valen's POV

"Are you sure this will work?" Enirque whispers to me, his palms are sweaty and warm as he wrings them together.

What I had devised was so illegal and so selfish that I knew Ryder would never believe I had it in me. But I did have it in me. And I would be there for her.

"Ryder just needs to believe it," I murmur back.

"I agree. Good. You know, I did everything for his design, I won't give my engineering masterpiece away to anybody," Enrique murmurs under his breath, "He is unsurpassed by all others – he's passed every test... Skye," Enrique turns around, as do I, to the brain dead clone of the Alpha behind us.

It was a vegetable who could follow directions.

The real Skye was with Ryder.

"Alpha Skye agreed to everything," I reassure Enrique, "He'll be an Elite after his ten year contract with us is up."

"I can't believe you devised all of this," Enrique turns to me and holds my eye, I stand above him, but I am his right hand, "If this fails, it'll all fall on you."

"I'm happy to take any consequences – because I won't allow one slip from him in this contract," I shake my head, "No way," not after what he did to my people. Now, he was going to taste submission.

"Okay, look, look! It's happening," Enrique points toward the screen, flabbergasted. He enhances the lighting to show Skye stalking out of the bedroom – after talking to Ryder.

Setting up the show.

"Get ready to walk out with that sheet around your neck," I order the brain dead clone behind, and his soulless eyes just look at me, accepting the order. That meat sack was about to make everyone cry.

Ryder's POV

"Thank you for everything you've told me tonight," Skye speaks his appreciation to me, in the darkness of our guest room, as we lie side by side, "Everything you've told me, everything you've been through, everything I didn't look for... you've taught me a lot... just as a Luna might, if the Alpha ever listens," Skye sits up and speaks more professionally, "I've narrowed my own choices down to two. Following orders for comfort, or breaking the orders for individual reward... even if the consequence is pain... that's what you've taught me, Ryder, I never understood your way until now, but that is what you do – what you've always done."

"...it's just human nature..." I sit up next to Skye, we're not touching, but we're inches apart. I'm hoping he reaches over. But I can see he is in deep thought, and his breathing is slow and deep.

We've been talking all night.

Well, I had been talking. For ten straight hours.

It was a lot to tell him, my journey, my thoughts, my feelings. Now he seems to understand. It's the respect in his tone he has for me. The change in his demeanour.

"I believe in you now," Skye turns to me, and finally looks at me in the darkness, and his neon eyes dilate as our eyes lock together.

"Why do you say that?" I whisper, without reaching out to him.

"Just listen to me now," Skye's voice goes uncharacteristically quiet, "Because as Alpha I need to give you one last order," I furrow my brows – wondering if someone has replaced him as Alpha in the Dominion. The humans were always changing the order to their heart's desire. I wait for it, and Skye pauses a long time to consider his words, "First you need to understand something. Valen is not your friend, he is your enemy."

Not this damn rivalry again.

"He is my friend," I whisper, defiant.

"You're a Luna – he is not your friend, he is an enemy, and he is keeping you close," Skye reaches out for my face now, and he clasps my chin, leaning in toward my face, "You don't see it, because he's a human... and he's lying to you... he is cruel to us, Ryder, he is a cruel man."