Ryder Holt Novels & Stories

╭────────── ⋅ ⋅ ✦❘༻༺❘✦⋅ ⋅ ──────────╮ 𝐑𝐎𝐙𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐘 [ꜱᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛ ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ] ⬛ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 : 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 : 𝟏𝟑

"I think by now you must know that Caitlin's not just my daughter, she's seriously daddy's little princess, in every sense of the word. I'm the first and only man in her life until now. I protected and shielded her, her whole life." His stare was dead on, no smile, no give this was Colton Lyon at his rawest. And I knew instinctively that according to how I handled myself here things could go very well or very bad for me. This moment just might decide what kind of future I had in this man's life, which meant my woman's life as well.

Audrie opens the back door as I carry Isla's exhausted body to the back seat, where I lay her down. Growls pull our attention to the field aside from the road. Grabbing a pair of shorts from the back, I jog off in their direction; I come across Tate's smashed-up white Ford Raptor. Gazing in the driver's window, Oh fuck, Tate's face down on the steering wheel, a chunk of metal jutting out of his back. I pry open the door, he still has a pulse, and there's no way I'm pulling that out until a doctor says. I pull his limp body out and carry him back to my car. He's a heavy mother fucker.

I will not wrap him in a shroud, no - we will witness the Gods claiming his body as it gets purified by fire and the scent of cedar and pine. After I am done placing him on the pyre, the women step forward to cover his body with the leaves and branches of the cedar tree. “Alpha Creed,” I hear as I step back and see Alpha Ryker step forward. His eyes flash crimson, but not the type of crimson I am used to - there are literal flames in his eyes. “Who - what are you?” I find myself saying, and he chuckles. “I am the one who will lead your father’s human soul to the other side. Your mother has already found his immortal spirit and guided him home to their shared plain, but I am the one in charge

Alecia lowered her gaze and peeked at him from under lashes. The rest of the men whispered around him, and for some reason she could not understand, Alecia felt a blush heat her cheeks. All around her, everyone seemed to be gravitating towards the man who had stepped in He shouted out a line from the song with the rest of the crowd chanted, his untucked blue dress shirt flopped with his movements. His lips moved in a smooth, elegant rhythm. “Who’s that?” she asked Helen. "That’s the Alpha himself, Ryder Hendrix. future senator of California,” she said, rolling her eyes.

A deep grunt escaped my throat at the thought that she was also going to find out that I was her mate and would also perceive my scent. shit! I hissed and clenched my fist, bracing myself to reject her immediately; I wasn't worried about the pain because I was also planning to kill her. My name is Xander, the heir to the Red Moon Pack. Being the son of Alpha Xavier, I had to be more cruel than him, giving no space for romantic feelings, which do nothing other than make someone weak and act stupidly. Lena's POV.

It would be nice to have one more ally in the party besides Adam. I had been coordinating with Ryder most of the week. His cover story was that he graduated with honors at Harvard. He’s an entrepreneur. His family owns a couple of restaurant chains in New York. He invests here and there. I asked him to rent a Boxster for the night and a nice Armani suit. I also asked him to rent a ring for the night or buy a fake one that could pass as the real thing. We even agreed to rent a room in the resort to leave no doubt that Ryder and I were for real.

I shrugged. “Alright, you look like someone kicked your puppy. It’s sad,” Holly sighed, holding a hand out to Alexander. Alexander looked confused and a little annoyed. “I’m not in the mood, Holly,” he huffed. “No shit. You’re sitting here sulking. It’s not an attractive look. Now come on, dumbass,” Holly rolled her eyes, no longer waiting for him to get the clue. I snickered as Alexander stumbled while one of my strongest she-wolves yanked him along behind her to the dance floor. The boy looked so lost and terrified as she placed his hand on her waist.

Ryder says then takes a drink of his sweet tea. “How are your husbands and wife?” Lidia asks him. Ryder is in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Natalie and his two husbands Jaxson and Etienne. Natalie is also living a reverse harem dream with those three men and two others, Callum and Dominic. It’s an odd relationship but they are all so perfect together. They are for sure #relationshipgoals for me.

Madam Amelia seemed to know this as she nodded her head at me. “Now what? You can’t break your vow. What will you do? You can’t have a Wolf Rider running around Astoria.” There it was. She knew what her daughter was. The half human part of it was the least of it. The fact that she was a Rider—a creature that could control a werewolf with a simple command. A creature that ruined my family's life. A creature, who must be destroyed before it gains power. There hasn't been a rider born in half a century, and even before, there was only one that ruled Astoria.