Namesake (Voiders #1) - Marie Harte Page 0,11
Haverson.” The Valk Dom held kicked Haverson in the face with a speed Eric could respect. “Our orders were to find the ring. Chen wants to take care of the woman personally.”
Dom grunted and dropped him to the ground.
“What’s your name?” Eric asked.
The Valk swallowed hard. “Walker.”
“Well, then, Walker. Today’s your lucky day.” Eric broke Walker’s wrist with a snap. He hissed in pain but made no loud noises. Haverson didn’t fare so well. At a nod from Eric, Dom broke his neck. “You’re going to keep tabs on Chen for me. You know your way around Ravagers and apparently Chen. Go back with a sign that you at least put up a fight.” He nodded at the Valk’s wrist. “He sees that, he’ll probably let you live. He’ll bloody you, but once you heal, you can be my eyes and ears.”
“If I say no?” Walker wisely refused to look at him. His quiet defiance soothed Eric’s need to punish. Eric respected intelligence and grit, and Walker appeared to have both.
“Then I’ll kill you, clean.” Eric ran his claws across Walker’s neck, leaving a line of blood that immediately healed.
“Fine.” Walker sighed and relaxed. “I didn’t really enjoy working for Chen, anyway. But the pay’s good, and it keeps the Salinas off my ass.”
“Go to a Ravager bar called The Cave tomorrow and leave your number. Don’t fuck with me, or you’ll wish for death by the time I’m through with you.”
“I get it, I swear.” He glanced at Dom then looked away again. “Savage Clan, right?”
Dom stepped between Eric and Walker. “Yeah.”
“One other thing you might want to know.” Walker inched back, keeping his gaze averted. “The Lawlesses have been sniffing around Chen, trying to make a deal. Just something to keep in mind.”
Dom grunted. “Take off.”
Walker disappeared without sound, running down the alley the way he’d come.
“That sucked.” Logan shook his head and morphed back into his more human frame. “Not enough time to really get into a good lather.”
Dom waited until Eric had resumed his human form before changing back as well.
“We were ready to get into ‘a good lather’ before we were interrupted,” Dom reminded him. “I’m still hungry. Let’s head back to the homestead and finish marking Vicki before someone else shows up.”
Eric chuckled. “She’s not boring. I’ll give her that.”
Logan and Dom joined him in the vehicle. Kate and Diana had already driven off with Sean—the other non-Ravager Eric would be forced to deal with.
“What do you think?” Eric asked Dom from the backseat of their SUV as Logan drove.
In tune with each other, Dom didn’t have to ask what he meant. “I think the female’s going to lead you on one hell of a chase. And let’s face it. You need the challenge. What’s the last thing you’ve hunted that got away?”
“Vicki,” Logan answered with a snicker. The obnoxious pup.
Dom smacked him in the back of the head.
“What?” Logan was still grinning.
“Watch your tone.” Dom’s growl turned into a sigh. “You’re the least disciplined of the pack, yet we keep you. Why is that, Prime?”
Eric chuckled. “Because he’s good with his mouth?” Dom flushed, and Eric laughed louder. “Why is my guard so shy when it comes to sex? You’re turning human on us, Dom.”
“Not one word,” Dom warned Logan when he opened his mouth.
Wisely, the Ravager closed it.
“I can’t remember the last time we fucked a decent female,” Eric grumbled. “The humans around here aren’t satisfying.” Playing devil’s advocate, he sought his pack’s opinion. “Maybe Jesse has the right of it. We should make peace with the Lawless clan and look for a mate there.” The horror on Logan’s and Dom’s faces reinforced his original decision. “Relax. I was just thinking out loud. Obviously, you’re on the same page I am. None of them are to be trusted, leaving the future of our clan to non-Ravager Voiders.”
“And Conduits,” Logan offered. “Vicki smells right.”
“Yeah.” Dom exhaled heavily. “Everything about her vibrates on your level, Eric. Physically, mentally. Even her guer, as untrained as it is, suits you.”
A Ravager’s guer, or fighting spirit, was all to their kind. The wilder the guer, the stronger the Ravager. Animal instincts went hand in hand with resilience. Coming from a world where only the fittest survived, Ravagers had to choose the best to carry on their lines.
With a slim ratio of female to male Ravagers, they’d had to make a decision. The king before Eric, like all the rest, had refused to allow Ravagers to procreate with