Bloodbreeders: Seeking Others by Robin Renee Ray Read Free Book Online Page B

heard them in return.
    “Do y’all hear it?” Derek asked.
    “Shhh!” Jacob hissed turning around looking at him angrily.
    Derek held his hands up in a surrendering way and closed his mouth. I could almost swear I heard a stifled snicker from Brandon who was sitting next to him, but didn’t dare turn around to find out. Jacob called out another phrase then waited. “Yo nec wah.”
    “Row to the side. I’ll be back.” Jacob said, and then dunked the torch in the river.
    The boys did as he instructed as we watched him disappear into the thick shrubbery, wondering—and maybe hoping, he would just come back and we could leave. That was soon proven to be a mistake in thought when he showed up with five typical looking normals with rifles garnishing their grips.
    “Come, tie the boat here,” Jacob said, then they turned and started walking off.
    “How will we know where to go?” Brandon asked.
    “The earth will show us the way and they know this,” Garvin explained.
    “Oh yeah, just like when we use to hunt,” Derek whispered. “Wait…I don’t think I like that.”
    “Like what?” Tammy asked.
    “You know, the whole thing about hunting, them with guns, us and the whole following the indented weeds. That happens to be how we use to find game, only this time I have a feeling that we might be the prey.”
    “So you think once we go in there they will use our tracks and kill us?” Sydney asked, wrinkling his forehead by bringing in his brows.
    “It could happen,” Derek replied as he stepped out of the boat.
    “Why didn’t they just kill us when they had the chance?” Sydney asked, smiling as he pulled the boat up onto the reeds. “We were just sitting ducks all lined up in a boat.”
    “Maybe, just maybe, they’re like the rest of the hunting world and like the thrill of the hunt.”
    “They’re normals, Derek. We could bleed them before they took their next breath,” I added as I started in the direction that Jacob had gone.
    “Well, there is that,” he laughed. “Does make me feel better.”
    “What? Did you forget?” Brandon came around him slapping him on the back of the head.
    “No! Shut up, Brandon.”
    We all tried and failed miserably, to control the laughter from slipping past our lips. I know it echoed through the dense growth and impenetrable amount of trees that towered around us and all I could think about was the disgusted look on Jacob’s face, which in turn made me smile even wider. I smelled the wood burning in the campfire well before I could see the light from its blaze. Jacob and the five men stood around the fire, as if they had been waiting for nothing else but for us to hurry and show up. He looked at me and my smile turned upside down.
    “Forgive our outburst, Master Jacob. We meant no disrespect,” I quickly said then bowed my head.
    “Thought she was your leader?” the man standing closet to him asked.
    “I’m a new breed in leaders, boy. Haven’t you heard? I love my people and anyone who steps out of line with one of them answers to me. As you can see, Jacob is the one I have handed the keys to my kingdom, as it is said in the good book, and even I hold that on high. Any more stupid questions?”
    Jacob looked at me with the slightest grin gracing his face. Then the rest of my people stepped up and made a half moon shape around me. The five men took a knee, with all facing me. They then stood and walked over to me one at a time. The one who had spoken stepped up and extended his neck, as he leaned his upper body toward me. I looked over at Jacob who nodded sharply, while I shook my head just as swiftly.
    “I wish to ask you a question, before I make this pack.”
“You wish to question my loyalty?”
    “In away…yes.”
    “I give you my neck, knowing you could take my life. Is that not loyal enough for you?”
    “I would just once like the sincere loyalty of true friends without the release of ones fluids.”
    “My Lady,” he said going to his