Drekinn 3 - Reaching Rissa (2 page)

Chapter One

Calli and the girls stood in the doorway looking at their mothers and shaking their heads. This was getting out of control, they were butt ass crazy, and Calli was going to put a stop to it. They were fugitives.

“Ma, seriously, Christmas?” Calli said.

“Young lady, it is the Christmas season and we will celebrate it. No matter if we are on the run or not. What better time to have it? We need a break and to regroup,” Vivi argued. Her daughter was going to agree to this.

The moms called their three daughters to their special room when they thought of all the arguments their daughters would think of.

“Ma, we can’t. Kade, Nick, and Declan are planning for the arrival of the rest of the Pack. We have to get all the rooms ready, figure out where they are all staying, and also, we have to figure out who we are missing from the Pack. You know as well as I do what the ancestors’ writings said. Just like them, until we seat our entire leadership, we will not be able to defeat the
Bondi King
, or the
Ulfer
. We have to. The President’s wife is leading the Prentiss Agency; do you know what that means? We are going to have a long road ahead of us to
try to
defeat them,” Calli said slowly so her mom would be able to understand what was at stake.

While Christmas was a nice thought really, and would completely be an awesome day they could take off, Calli could guarantee the
Ulfer
would not be taking the day off. They could even possibly attack.

Many years ago, the magical world ‘revealed’ themselves to the humans. The government viewed it as something they weren’t allowed to know and blocked the actual history on that. There was a battle, and the humans decided the
Breyting
needed regulated.
Breyting
was the name they gave the magical community.
Ulfer
was the name of the magical people who refused to be regulated.

For years, this is what the
Drekinn
Agency controlled. They fought the
Ulfer,
trying to make sure they wouldn’t draw attention to the shifters. It would only take one major incident for the humans to try to completely take over and arrest, detain, and cuff the magical people.

That was what they discovered just last week. They discovered that wrist cuff placed on a shifter would allow them to control the magical community. Of course, they would have to make the special cuff. Rissa broke into the computers of the human government, and found the diagram of the cuff.

Vivi shook her head, she knew all of this, her daughter refused to actually believe she was capable of making sure their mission was safe. “Young lady, you need to sit your ass down and listen. I am not your Pack member right now, I get you are in charge, but right now, I am your mother. Now all of you sit your asses down before I put my foot up them like I did when you broke into the human's sweet shop cause you wanted to get some fudge.”

The three girls looked at each other and rolled their eyes. “
Vivi
, we didn’t break into the shop for fudge, hell, we broke in to beat the shit out of the kid who lived above the shop with his dad. Little asshole grabbed Calli’s ass the day before. We just took the fudge cause we could,” Rissa laughed and pulled out a chair next to her mom.

“Oh, really?” Shelly, Cherri’s mom, glared at her daughter who was slinking into her chair.

“Dammit, Rissa, the pact!” Cherri muttered.

“You three and the damn pact, I swear we need it written down, you guys have more shit hidden than the old mob,” Brenda snorted.

Rissa glared at her friend, “Shit, you know I can’t remember everything. You need to stop me when I open my mouth.”

“Like that's possible,” Calli snorted, grabbed a chair, sat backwards, and then whistled. The three had dogs that were presents from Calli’s mate, Kade. They were tiny, little, white dust mops that had been brought here before even the girls arrived. They were their babies, yep, sounded creepy, a shifter having a puppy, but they didn’t care. The three little dogs scampered around the corner, ran to their masters, and sat at their feet. Rissa bent down and picked up Billy B, her white, teacup puppy, and he snuggled in her neck.

“Aww, how is my baby today?” Rissa said in a disgustingly sweet tone.

Calli bent over and held up her hand and the little pup wagged its tail but sat down and waited. “Good, Wolfie. You see how well she's trained?”

Cherri cooed at Winks, her puppy, and pampered him with a bit of food from the table.
They were all in love with their puppies, sad but true
, Vivi thought.

Vivi glared at her daughter. She damn well knew how she felt about the dogs. Looking under the table and snarling at the white rats, “SIT!” The three little dogs just looked at her and then lay down, and yawned as if they were bored. Vivi threw up her hands and said, “Whatever, back to the Christmas thing. We are trying to say that we are going to plan Christmas. All we are asking for is one day, one day for us to celebrate the holiday, like things are normal.”

She threw in a slight waver to her voice, so she sounded like a pathetic old woman; of course, Brenda sniffed and hid her head, and Shelly pinched her sensitive skin until tears gathered in her eyes, and then she looked at her daughter Cherri.

“Honey, it's going to be the last time I will have you all together, you are mated now, soon you will have your own children, and then we will have Christmas at your house, it's like passing the torch.”

Brenda looked at Rissa who was totally buying this act. Vivi knew because she was the most
softhearted
of the bunch, Calli was the alpha, Cherri had too many issues about control, but Rissa, she was a lovely airhead, whose mother played her like a violin.

“Honey, your
father,
and I have talked about this. We know you are going to find your mate soon. We just want to have this time with you, so we can celebrate the holiday’s right. With all this other stuff going on, I promise we won't get in the way. We are going to plan everything; you can keep searching for information. You won't have to lift a finger.”

Rissa looked at her mom and knew she was going to give in, no matter what she and her best friends had talked about on the way to this room. They had decided their moms needed to chill out, and let them get things organized. However, looking into her mom’s eyes was harder than she thought. And her friends were glaring at her, they knew she was gonna fold and then they would have to—it was the pact. One for all and all for one.

“Aww.…ma, shit, Calli? Cherri?” she looked at them pleadingly.

Calli rolled her eyes, “Fine, but seriously mom, nothing big. Dinner, with minimal decorations, and a tree. That's it. We will have to arrange for you to be able to go back into the city for a few things. Besides, the Enforcers are already getting restless, this will give them something to do. But I swear on all that is holy, if you piss me off….”

Vivi smiled to herself, and then looked innocent, “I promise.”

Calli laughed because she knew she could talk to her mother until she was blue in the face, but she would totally ignore her and do what she wanted. Kade was gonna kill her. They already knew her mother was planning something. He warned her before she came here. Damn, she was gonna have to make this up to him, it sucked.

Teatime was over. They got what they wanted and now they were totally going to make this place a home. When they escaped the city for here, Vivi and the rest of the families had not been able to bring much, it wasn’t as if they could have moved their whole house here in a night.

Therefore, she left her large, tall house in the suburbs, only brought her special memorabilia. She couldn’t go back, but she could start over. They were going to be in the large, rambling compound for a long while. Vivi wasn’t stupid; finding the correct person who belonged in the leadership was going to take time. Vivi read the book Calli received. She knew how long this was going to take. There was the Chosen, the Senate, and even the children of the Chosen that could have the necessary power to become a leader here.

The main castle was huge. It held more than a hundred rooms the Pack could use, and that didn't count the small bungalows they found when they were exploring. They had the whole land warded, so they could finally let their animals run.

When Vivi and her friends shifted for the first time in years, it had been painful. Pushing down your animal side was dangerous. They were a part of them. She had even forgotten what the hell her wolf looked like. She loved her, grey and strong. Now that Vivi let her out, she was in her head all the time, wanting to help her. Vivi accepted her help, too.

They could run anywhere on the compound grounds that was under the wards, so when they neared the edges, they would feel the power of the shield and would turn. But the place was so massive, thousands of trees in the middle of nowhere in New York state, who would have thought? The road was overgrown and not travelable. So the only way into the compound was to fly, or the underground.

Moreover, no one could enter the shield without an invitation. Vivi and her friends had been given a whole wing. Kade insisted on it, he said they needed privacy. She wasn’t sure how to take that, but she was glad. Leaving her suburban home that had four stories of memories had been hard.

However, the rooms were spacious and also decorated with good taste. Calli certainly had not been involved with this. She looked in the mirror again and smiled. They were going into town to shop for Christmas stuff. She was excited, not because of the shopping, which was all good, no, she and her friends were wearing disguises. Now, most people wouldn’t be that excited; however, they were given spells the witches made to help conceal members of the
Drekinn
should they need to go into town.

She currently had all of her skin tightened and changed a bit so she looked like a twenty-year-old girl, especially with her red wig and heavy makeup done. Vivi yelled out into the other room, “Are you ladies about ready?”

“Yep,” Shelly called.

Vivi smiled and pulled on her spandex-like dress that was bright purple and pink, she looked like a hooker,
this was awesome
. They figured most people who were in hiding did not want to draw attention to themselves, so they would do the opposite. They were definitely going to draw attention, and maybe a proposition or two.

Vivi stepped out into the living room, she struck her pose, and the others laughed. They looked amazing also, Brenda with her blue, micro mini, and yellow tank top to show off her boobs, and Shelly in her neon green and black dress that barely covered her, it was hot.
WOW, they were sluts.

Shelly held out the ‘fuck me’ heels they borrowed from Cherri—in secret of course. It made the outfit. They practiced their walk, so they wouldn’t fall on their face. Hell, it had been years since they had worn something like this.
Okay, decades.

“Shit, I totally didn’t have to wear the girdle, so maybe we can have the spell for a while. I think maybe, Richard would like the change back to my younger years. Maybe I can get a bit of a rise out of him, if you know what I mean,” Brenda laughed.

“Paul was growling when I walked out, he told me to leave the heels on when I got home,” Shelly gloated.

“Well, I plan on getting Victor a little surprise when I go into the city, it has been a long time since we played, I bet he would like it,” Vivi smiled.

There was a knock on the door, the Guards were ready to take them apparently, and Vivi walked slowly to the door and opened it. She leaned on the edge with her arm raised seductively and licked her full red lips at the young man, “Yes?”

The poor Guard's eyes almost bugged out of his head and his mouth hung open. The tall, buzz cut, blonde man snapped his mouth shut and began to stutter, “Ma’am, I was looking for Mrs. Vivi, and her friends, if you could please get her?”

Vivi laughed with glee, no one recognized the older wolves. She loved it. Only in the last few decades had she begun to show a bit of aging, and not that it really mattered, she kept in shape, but it was nice to be appreciated.
“Young man, that was an excellent complement but now, Lift your chin off the floor.
These are our disguises.”

“Really? Wow, ma’am, you look totally awesome. I would never have guessed you were Alpha Calli’s mom. I mean it's kinda wrong for me to think what I was thinking about a mom… not that you weren’t pretty to begin with… shit, I mean you were hot…” The boy trailed off when the women began to laugh hysterically.

“Young man, you have made my day. Now let’s get a move on, I have a lot of shopping to do,” Vivi said.

The three women walked down the hallway behind the Guard, they really hoped not to see their daughters as they left. Vivi warned if any of them saw what they were
wearing,
they would not be allowed out. However, they got lucky, and the only one they saw was Declan, who frowned at the three women and raised a finger at them with his mouth open.

Getting into the shuttle with the other Enforcers, as they were being called now, was fun also, they drooled, apologized, and then turned red. Vivi opened her purse and checked her money when they left their homes, they took their stash with them. No shifter family with a grain of salt would put any of their fortune in a bank;
the humans would be stunned how much you could accrue over a lifetime, well three lifetimes.

She nodded to her friends who did the same thing and then nodded back. Good, they would have plenty of money to spend. They needed a lot: decorations, gifts for everyone, and food. There were five shuttles following them, it should fit in all that.

The shuttles ran off the old subway system the humans used. It was silly really to build transportation underground like this. Vivi felt as if they were going to be buried alive in this tunnel. She looked around and then rolled her eyes; she was not going to think about that.
Humans
, she wondered,
why did they insist on making things so difficult?
It was a shifter who discovered the flying shuttle, they locked that poor guy away for experiments or something. Calli’s boss told them when they ran, the Prentiss Agency was gathering up people who had shown promise in technical areas for the last several years. They were up to something obviously, and Vivi wished she could find out for her daughter what. But that was for another day.

They were three hookers out shopping for Christmas stuff. They finally arrived at the pad that was right under the best shopping center in the city. She was excited.

The women exited the shuttle and then straightened their skirts, they were now ready. The men put small tracking devices on them because they would gather too much attention if they were all going together. So they were going to allow the women to go into one store and see how it went.
IF
no one recognized them or stopped them, they were good to go.

Vivi grinned at her friends and then climbed the stairs slowly; these damn heels were brutal to walk in. “Hey boys, no peeking up the skirt,” she called over her shoulder and laughed when their faces turned that lovely shade of pink again.

Their first stop was the huge department store they would normally shop in. When they slipped out the door into the street, Vivi noticed several things.

First, were the large screens that hung above the street, usually they had ads for products and stores. Now, they had streaming news on the change of control in the shifter world. The Prentiss Agency figurehead was spouting off his rhetoric. She wanted to laugh aloud; the dipshit was not even really in charge.

Shaking her head, she looked around, and the second thing she noticed was that there was increased security, right in front of the store was a checkpoint,
and it
looked as if they had someone checking to see if they could find some unregistered shifters. The spell they were given would not allow them to be seen as shifters. No scent, no magical glow. They were ready.

Vivi looked at her friends, who looked just as determined, and they walked forward with a strut. As they reached the line they had to go through to get into the store, they paused.

“Bunny, we have got to get us one of those,” Vivi pointed to a dress in the window.

“I know, I wonder if they have those shoes, too,” Brenda replied. They talked about this and when they had their IDs altered, they decided to stick with their first letters. So Brenda was Bunny, and Shelly was Silver, Vivi, of course, had to be a bit daring and used Vixen. Their story was they were dancers from the west coast coming here for a new job.

The sad part was that Vivi really thought they would stand out in their clothes, but the younger women were all dressed similar to them. Hell, they could apparently pass for housewives looking like a hooker.
What in the hell had the world come too
, Vivi wondered as she looked around.

That was the last thing she noticed. The stores across the street, which usually catered to the shifters, were closed. This store had some shifter clothes because with their broad shoulders, sometimes they needed a certain fit. She nodded in the direction of the stores to her friends and they frowned. What on earth was going on?

“Ladies,” the man in front of them said smoothly. It made Vivi’s skin crawl, but she refused to allow them to know it. With a big cheesy grin, she held out her ID. “What are you in town for?”

“Shopping, wow, what is going on here? We just arrived last night and woke up this morning to shop our asses off. I mean, I have saved for this day to be in New York and shop, this place is amazing. Do you know if they have delivery? I wish I could send something back to my mom. She would die if she saw this stuff” Vivi rambled and patted the man's arm, flirting.

The guard looked at her and the picture, the altered one, handed it back, and waited for Shelly and Brenda to give theirs up. The entire time she chatted and laughed loudly, as if she was a bubblehead. Like she didn’t notice the other man standing
behind
them with some kind of device pointed at them. She wondered what the hell it was.

“You are free to go,” the first man said when the one holding the small device nodded. “Make sure you carry this around with you, or you will be stopped every place you go to.”

“Thank you,” Vivi said and took the small cards he held out to the women. Once they were in the store and out of sight, she looked down at the blue card they handed her and read.

Check Point 239832 Cleared as a non-shifter

“Please, like they are gonna be able to figure out who is a shifter and who is not, everyone knows how to hide that shit,” Vivi muttered.

She saw several of the ladies from the neighborhood shopping slowly; all of them had a blue card in their hand. The Prentiss Agency really is filled with a bunch of dumbasses.

“Let’s shop,” Vivi ground out and refused to allow the dipshits to get her down.

The women nodded in determination and then Vivi held up a hand. “And if any of us gets a chance, we steal the small thing the guy was scanning us with. Calli and the others need to know what they are dealing with.”

In agreement, they began to shop. Trees, decoration, clothes in all sizes. They could have spent so much more but they didn’t want to become suspicious. Once they had an associate helping them, it went quicker. They said they would hold their purchases in the back of the store until they came back. That worked out, because Sidhe would transport their things from the back to the shuttles. It had all been arranged in every store they’d requested. Vivi still had her contacts. For now, she would leave and be happy with her one little bag she carried, while the rest of the booty was taken out the back, right under those assholes noses.

Out of one store, and into the next, Vivi, and her friends waved their cards and they were in. She laughed when she saw the Enforcers following slowly, looking into windows, and shaking their heads. There were only a few more things to do, and they weren’t going to be done under the watchful eyes of the Enforcers.
Calli
is
gonna kill
me
for this
, Vivi thought just before she nodded to her friends.

They went into another store, and changed their clothes, pulled out the other spell the witches gave them, in case of an emergency, and had to change their appearance quickly. They still had the other spell; it was only a small deceit. They would change back when it was time.

When they emerged from the dressing area, they were three business ladies in their suits, with their hair in tight buns and Vivi wore glasses. Their makeup was minimal, and clothes grey and brown. So no one really noticed them as they wandered through the store and bought their things, once again nodding to the Sidhe who was working. They turned to the door and took a deep breath. “Ready, ladies?”