Chapter 26
Aria’s POV
Running down the stairs and racing out the back, I saw Zane had set up a huge jumping castle. It was
a princess one with a huge slide and on the side a climbing wall and a jumping pit. Christine was on it,
bouncing around with Lily and Amber. Seeing me walking towards them, she waved me over, telling me
to get in. I hadn’t been on a jumping castle since I was a kid. The jumping castle looked intimidating, an
injury waiting to happen. As I went to climb up, my legs were suddenly ripped from underneath me,
making my stomach drop and the air to leave my lungs before I was tackled, my body bouncing in the
air on the jumping castle. My legs stretched out in a not sody-like manner.
Looking over, I see it was Wendy. She wasughing hysterically at her actions, which nearly caused
me to have a heart attack. The worst part though was looking back out through theting and seeing
Zane, Reid, and Mitch wereughing, sitting on the bench seat watching. Getting to my feet, I tackled
Wendy onto the slide, and we both ended up rolling down before I ended upnding on top of her on
the grass. Jumping to my feet, I took off running. Wendy started chasing me along with Lily and Amber,
who jumped off the castle to help her. When they failed to catch me, I heard Wendy’s cracking bones
as she dived into her wolf form. Her wolf was a light grey with a bluish tint to it. She had a white streak
that went from her head to her tail, and she was big even in wolf form. Growling yfully, she ran at
me, before lunging. I dropped to my knees,nding on my back, sliding along the grass. Wendy went
straight over the top of mending on her paws, spinning around. I stuck my tongue out at her before
taking off heading straight towards where Reid, Zane, and Mitch were sitting. Darting behind her mate,
I shoved him at her just as her wolf went to tackle me.
Mitchnded on the grass with a loud thump. Lily and Amber both jumped on him, holding him down.
Knowing Wendy couldn’t climb on to the castle in her wolf form without popping it, I tried to sneak back
to the jumping castle to catch my breath. Wendy, noticing my hesitation looking between the trees and
the castle, chased me down, her fast on my heels running around the back of the jumping castle. I took
off towards the trees when I heard a loud growl.
Looking back towards everyone, Reid was taking off his shoes. Wendy’s wolf collided with me,
knocking me to the ground before she started yfully sniffing my face, telling me she won. Looking
back over, I watched as Reid took his shirt off. Damn, that man is fine.
Reid had a silly smirk on his face that turned into a devilish grin. Christine mind linked me, her voice
ringing loudly through the link. “I would run if I were you. The big bad Alpha ising.” I watched as
everyone turned to look at the Alpha. He shook his head at Christine for dobbing him in. I watched as
he started running towards me. I heard the sickening crack of his bones snapping mid-jump as he took
his wolf form. Landing on the grass about 40 metres away, I stared at him. His wolf was more like the
size of a bear,pletely ck, his shiny fur had not a patch of colour anywhere. Even in his wolf
form, Ryder seemed to be smiling, baring his teeth. Jumping to my feet, I ran straight towards the trees.
I could hear Ryder gaining on me, hear the twigs breaking under his giant paws. Running through the
forest, everything became a blur. I felt free as the trees whipped past me, the branches hitting my skin.
My adrenaline pumped with excitement as I weaved in and out when suddenly I hit a clearing. Nowhere
to hide, I turned to the left, running along the tree line. Ryder still hadn’t caught up. Using that to my
advantage, I climbed a huge tree standing on the branch, I waited.
A few seconds after knowing the branch would easily hold my weight, I gotfy on my branch,
draping my legs over either side. Ryder came into my line of sight he was sniffing the ground. I ced
my hand over my mouth to muffle my giggling. I watched as he kept running past then stopping after
losing my scent. Turning around, he was at the bottom of the tree I was hiding in.
I watched as he sniffed the tree before looking up, his gazending on me straddling the branch. He
tilted his head to the side. “Ryder can’t climb, but I can.” Reid’s voiceing through the mind link, my
smile dropped. I looked down before climbing another branch. Going back to his human form. I heard
himugh, making my eyes dart back to him. Reid was standing there in all his naked glory, smiling
back at me. He started climbing the tree rmingly fast. I took off running along the branch before
jumping to a nearby tree, gripping the tree with my ws before I steadied myself. Looking at the
ground, I gasped. That’s a long way down in my adrenaline rush I hadn’t realised how high I had
actually climbed. Frozen on the tree, Reid jumped overnding on the branch above me. “You can run,
but you can’t hide.”
“Ha, that’s what you think,” I threw back at him before clenching my teeth. I jumped off the branch the
ground rushing towards me, making me let out a high pitch squeal, my feetnding on the ground
below. I was now looking up at Reid who looked like he was about to have a heart attack at my little
stunt. I saw him mutter something under his breath but couldn’t make out what he was saying. I knew
he would have to climb down. His human form isn’t sturdy enough to jump the thirty or forty metres to
the ground.
“You could have hurt yourself doing that.”
“Don’t you mean, you would hurt yourself if you tried that?” He shook his head at me. Climbing down
the tree while I watched his nice firm ass. I giggled to myself watching him swinging from branch to
branch, like Tarzan.
“What are youughing at?”
“The view,” I called back. He smiled at me. Before hanging from a lower branch by his arms, he let go
shining in the sunlight. My eyes running down his body to his V-line.
“Hey, my eyes are up here.”
Rolling my eyes at him. I shoved him to the ground, making himnd in the dirt, and took off running
towards the Pack house. I could hear him shifting back into wolf form just as I broke through the tree
line. Seeing his clothesying on the ground, I reached down and grabbed them, only leaving his
shoes. Zane and Mitch watched as I darted inside, locking the door behind me. Everyone was standing
inside the kitchen, watching amused. I knew Reid wouldn’t fit inside the door in wolf form, his shoulders
were too wide. I watched as he breathed on the ss, I waved his clothes at him.
“He is going to kill you when he gets inside,” said Christine.
“Has to find me first,” I said, running through the kitchen door and towards the foyer. I could hear
everyoneughing behind me.
“Bring my clothes back, Aria.” I ignored him walking up the stairs. I listened as he Pack linked everyone
asking for some clothes so he could shift back.
Everyone ignored him except Zane. “Can’t get involved, boss man” Iughed to myself, before hiding in
his office. After a few minutes of him not being able to get in. I heard him use his Alpha voice through
the link demanding clothes. He sounded annoyed.
Being cheeky, I knew mine would overrule hismands. “No one help him, I’m trying to find
somewhere to hide,” I called back. I heard him growl annoyed.
“You’re gonna regret that, Ari, when I get inside. I am going to punish you.” Iughed back at him.
Deciding he would find me in his office, I ran back downstairs and into the kitchen. Reid was no longer
at the door.
“Where did he go?”
“I have no idea, but you better hope he doesn’t find you,” Mitch chuckled. I heard banging. Looking
through the window I see Ryder/Reid had jumped on to the lower part of the roof. Whoops didn’t think
about the windows. I knew as soon as he was out of sight of the kids he would shift back and climb
through a window. I looked at Zane for help, but he put his hands up.
“Don’t look at me. I’m staying out of it.”
Christine nodded towards the walk-in pantry. Just as she closed the door, I heard Reidnding on the
floor in one of the upstairs rooms.
Everyone darted out of the kitchen, leaving me in the pantry. It didn’t take long before the pantry doors
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were thrown open and a not happy Alpha was staring down at me with his arms folded across his
chest.
“I see you found some clothes,” I nervously giggled.
“I’m d you’re enjoying yourself at my expense.” Reaching forward he gripped my wrist, making me
smack into his rock-hard chest before he threw me over his shoulder.
“How very caveman of you.” He stormed out of the kitchen and past everyone, who were now sitting on
the lounge in the games room. I could hear Reid muttering to himself while I iled around trying to
make him put me down.
He didn’t let me go, and much to my embarrassment as we were walking past everyone, his hand
pped my arse. I flinched at the impact of his huge handing down on my arse, making me hiss at
the sting. Did he just spank me? Zane smirked, shaking his head and waved at me. I, in turn, flipped
him the finger. Reid started climbing the stairs with me still half upside down over his shoulder. On the
plus side, I got a nice view of his ass. Returning the favour, I pped it. He grunted before pping my
arse even harder. “Do that again, and you won’t be able to sit for a week.”
“You’re a brute, you know that?” I could feel the vibration of himughing. My belly was starting to hurt
as his shoulder pressed into it. Just as I was about to demand he put me down, he kicked the bedroom
door open and dumped me on the mattress, making me shriek. Reid stood looking down at me.
“You think what you did was funny?” he asked, tilting his head to the side. His lips turned up and into a
menacing smile. Excitement ran through me. I couldn’t help the smile that crept onto my face as I
nodded my head. His smile didn’t waver, and it sent a chill down my spine. Iughed at his expression.
I couldn’t tell if he wanted to kiss me or kill me. He raised an eyebrow at me and clicked his tongue.
Gripping my ankle, he yanked me towards the end of the bed.