Clayton sat next to Akaya all night and never left her side. Rachel walked in with some fresh clothes for her. " How is she?"
" Finally resting. She has a small fever, deep scratches and a puncture wound on her neck. It is so deep, I have no idea how she is even alive."
Rachel put the clothes down on a small table and sat next to Clay. " Nick and Jeremy found their house. It's on the far side of town. It was pretty well hidden. They had made sure no one ever knew who they were or lived. It seems they didn't want to know anyone."
Clayton gave a heavy sigh and just shook his head. None of this was making sense to him. If they just had some more information about them this would be so much easier. But then again- they were wolves. Nothing easy about that. Looking at Akaya he just kept running her words to him before she lost consciousness last night. The things she spoke couldn't have been what he thought it was. It was just impossible. Yet… how could she even say that.
Akaya groaned moving on the bed. Rachel moved closer to her as Elena and Savannah came in the room. Rachel pulled the bandage from her neck to check it. To her amazement it was all healed. Well she was like Elena, but the wound was so deep she shouldn't have even been alive. Akaya then jerked up from the bed screaming. Clayton and Rachel caught her and kept her on the bed.
" Calm down! You are safe." Rachel said.
Akaya just continued to jerk and try to move. Clayton picked her up and and held her up against his chest.
" Let me go! Jackson! He needs me now. Let go!"
" Not until you stop. You need to relax. Tell us what happened and we can help you." Clayton pleaded with her to calm down.
Akaya bit him hard on his arm. Making him scream and letting her go, but grabbed the back of her shirt and ripped it open. Revealing to him the the truth to who she was. The words she had spoken. The glares and cold glances. Even her rage. Taking a step back slowly he just looked at her as she held up the front of her shirt and glared at him. The spirling birthmark on her back told him everything.
" Clay? What is it?" Elena came up to him.
" The birthmark on her back. I know who she is I just don't wanna believe it."
Akaya grabbed the shirt on the other bed and put it on and stood up and faced him. " So now you know. Like it changes a thing about how I feel about you. So don't even think you and I will be all happy and friendly."
" I am completely lost." Savannah spoke out.
" That pretty much sums it up for all of us." Paige said as she joined with Nick and Jeremy.
" Damn you all just join in all the time don't you." Akaya looked Clayton dead in the eyes. " You want to tell them are should I?"
Clay just stood not sure what to do. This hit him so hard he wasn't sure words would even form from his brain to his mouth. His own little sister was here in front of him. His flesh and blood. She was alive and even more then she was when she was a little girl. This whole time…. How had he not known it how her? This whole time.
Akaya grabbed a nearby shirt and pants and put them on. Crossing her arms she just stayed quiet.
Elena went and stood next to Clay. " Akaya we really just want to help you. Who ever brought you meant it as a message. And as the head of this pack and Clay's wife I would like to know the connection between you two."
" She is my sister. Her real name is Hannah. " Clay opened up to the truth.
Everyone was silent. The news was a big shock and even more of a surprise. Clayton never opened up about his past. Akaya saw their stares and she nodded her head to his answer, confirming what he said was the truth.
" I knew my men brought you here. No need to thank me for your family reunion Akaya."
A tall man stood at the window in the room. His long hair pulled back his eyes dead on Akaya.
" Val. You bastard!" Akaya rushed past everyone, turning into her wolf form. Not caring about the clothes she had just ripped to pieces. Flashing her claws and fangs she launched herself at Val.
Val smiled and simply reached a hand out and stopped her in mid launch. Akaya was literally hanging in the mid air " Really now, Kay. Don't you think you would have learned not to do that by now?"
" What are you doing to her?" Elena demanded to know. " Let her go."
" Oh I have no intention of harming her...yet. I just wanted to introduce myself. I am Val Lars. I am here to take over Stonehaven and kill you all."
