Reaching Rissa

By Jana Leigh

Crazy? Psycho? In need of medication? What is wrong with everyone around her? Rissa can not figure out why everyone seems to think she should be happy about her mate being a murderer. Taking matters into her own hands before she is bound to a killer she does the only thing she can, escape Rissa style.
When she finds her second mate and the two men get along she is in trouble.
In this fast paced third book in the Drekinn Series you will not be able to put it down for fear something will happen. It is funny, sexy, and yes full of crazy excitement as the women of the Drekinn once again prove they are a force to be reckoned with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jana Leigh
• Release date: Jan 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301997077

Jana Leigh

Jana Leigh lives in Colorado surrounded by her family and friends. She loves writing and meeting new people!

Book preview

Reaching Rissa

Drekinn

Book Three

by Jana Leigh

Published by JK Publishing, Inc.

© Copyright January 2013 Jana Leigh

Rights & Permissions © Copyright January 2013 JK Publishing, Inc.

Cover, art, and logo © Copyright January 2013 by JK Publishing, Inc.

All rights reserved.

ISBN #978-1-301-99707-7

Smashwords Edition, License Notes: This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com, and purchase your own copy.

Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales are entirely coincidental.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author and publishing company.

Piracy: Please always be aware of where you are purchasing your electronic books and from whom. Only purchase from reputable, licensed individuals such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, etc. If ever in doubt, let the author know of a suspected site illegally selling their works—remember to include a link to the site where you have found a book you suspect of being pirated. It only takes a moment of your time, but you will forever have the gratitude of an author.

About the eBook Purchased: Your purchase of this eBook allows you to only ONE LEGAL copy for your own personal reading on your own personal computer or device. You do not have resale or distribution rights without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner of this eBook. This eBook cannot be copied in any format, sold, or otherwise transferred from your computer to another through upload to a file sharing peer-to-peer program, free or for a fee, or as a prize in any contest. Such action is illegal and in violation of the U.S. Copyright Law. Distribution of this eBook, in whole or in part, online, offline, in print or in any way or any other method currently known or yet to be invented, is forbidden. If you do not want this eBook anymore, you must delete it from your computer.

WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

If you find any eBooks being sold or shared illegally, please contact the author or JK Publishing, Inc. at [e-mail].

Dedication

I have written so many dedications in the last few years I believe I have thanked everyone. So I am using this dedication to talk about this series. The Drekinn is truly my favorite series that I write, I can be wild and wacky, and most of all I use it to take out my frustrations, so beware when you are reading this.

I apologize to my fans for the long wait, I promise this will not happen again, I am working on the final Dangerous now and it will be out soon, life kinda got into the way.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Epilogue

Books by Jana Leigh

Prologue

Rissa snuck out the window of her room. Who really gave a shit that it was on the second floor of the main home on the compound of the Drekinn Pack’s hideout? Who cared if she was going to have to jump into the thick bushes that surrounded the house? Who cared if her friends were going to kick her ass, and her mother would yell at her from the embarrassment of it all? Who really cared, because Rissa was not going to be mated to a crazy fucking psycho, they all assured her over the last month that he was not who or what he seemed. However, she wasn’t stupid, she watched the television. There are men all over the world who lure their victims into a false sense of security, and them BAM! He kills you!

Well, not her—Mr. Twisted Mate had been the phantom strange man they chased for the last few years. There was no way he wasn’t exactly what they thought he was, a fucking weirdo, she saw the tapes. However, no, she refused to make him pull his pants down and find out if he had a birthmark like the one she had to stare at when she endured watching the surveillance videos. The videos were just wrong. However, it was not the strange sex he seemed to enjoy that scared the piss out of her. She thought a tap or two on the ass would be enjoyable. No, it was the torture she’d watched that made her shiver in disgust.

She knew what she saw, and the man who appeared in front of her at Christmas suddenly had been the man who she saw electrocute and cut several Magical Beings in the last few years. As members of the Drekinn Agency, they were honor bound to uphold the laws of the Regulation Community.

The Community was made up of humans and only two shifters. One was the head of the Drekinn Agency, which at the time was Ms. Praton, and Brooks, her right hand man. Now they were banned, since everything went to hell in a handbasket a few months ago. The situation was just so confusing when it actually happened. However, right now, she had to deal with the present, she had to get the hell out of there.

Rissa told her friends she wasn’t going to mate with the sick bastard, but they had both laughed at her. She was pissed, her friend’s betrayal was just enough to push her right over the edge, see if they get this message. Rissa already had to endure a lecture from her mother, and if that wasn’t scary enough, Vivi, Calli’s mom, actually gave her pointers on how to deal with a dominant man. Rissa grimaced and closed her eyes, which was a nightmare in and of itself. However, that added to the Treacherous Bitches, Rissa was done.

She packed a bag with supplies, clothes, and food. She wasn’t completely inept as her friends thought. She knew she couldn’t go back to New York, shit, she was like on the most wanted list. DEAD OR ALIVE… FORMER MEMBERS OF THE DREKINN AGENCY. Her mother loved it. However, it did put a bit of a damper on meeting a normal man, which is what she wanted. That too was completely fucked up, Rissa thought.

Picture it, Christmas morning, opening presents, and having fun with family and friends, the first fun they had for months. They were on the run from the whole fucking world, and in their own little compound, a sliver of joy had been there. Rissa loved Christmas, now it was the bane of her existence because she would always remember the day she found out her mate was a psychopath murderer, on her favorite holiday.

They teased her mercilessly for a month and thus, the reason for her escape. The dreaded holiday if you didn’t have a date or a mate—Valentine's Day. She refused to acknowledge the fact that they were mates, so therefore she did the only thing she could, planned her escape.

For the last few weeks, she hoarded food slowly in her room and then she made sure she dug around and found simple camping gear and other supplies. Now she was ready. Thankfully, it was right when she knew the Twisted Mate was set to appear. He supposedly was undercover with the Ulfer. Right, as if he could have been undercover for the last few years while the Bondi King tortured and killed many of their own—Shifters.

Rissa paused and waited, listening closely to make sure no one was lurking in the corridor waiting. She knew her friends had been making plans for her and the Twisted Mate to meet again. The meeting had gone so fabulously before, you know, however, they thought it would work now. Rissa snorted, her friends were just this side of fucking nuts themselves, especially if they thought she would go quietly.

Rissa peered over the windowsill again and took a deep breath. She could do this, if not, she would probably be bound and gagged by her friends tomorrow, that’s when they set the whole meeting up. Well, she wasn’t going to be there. For the last few weeks when she shifted and ran, Rissa scoped out a place for her to hide. She found one by the south border of the compound’s land.

To make a long story short, Calli, Cherri, and herself had been employees of the Drekinn Agency. The Agency was developed to monitor and regulate the Shifter and Magical Community with the humans. Nowadays, the world's infrastructure was a lot different. Each of the countries had an ambassador, and they sat on the World Assembly Congress, or the WAC. In July 20, 2236, the WAC was formed because the economic crisis finally reached epic proportions and all the countries collectively declared bankruptcy. It was a tremulous time, and all due to the war they had waged on the Breyting, although no one would admit it. Each country tried to round up the Breyting and cage them. None of them realized that it was impossible to round them all up. Some humans had the DNA strand and didn't even know it. Basically, they shot themselves in the foot, and then the Breyting helped them reorganize.

Callie and her friends had wanted to be a part of the Drekinn Agency from the first day they saw Ms. Praton announce she was heading up the Agency for the regulation of the Breyting and Ulfer world. The humans had no clue how to deal with them, so they quickly handed it over to Ms. Praton. There were positive and negatives to that. Basically, if everything was running smoothly, then the WAC patted them on the back for thinking of letting the animals police themselves. However, if a highly public Ulfer incident happened, they tried to flex—it never worked. Ms. Praton was one scary dragon when she was pissed, well, her name was actually Pilar, but that was another story.

For years, they had done their job, making rank, and rising in the company until they were all at the top of their field. Calli was the Head Enforcer, Cherri the Lead Medical Advisor, and Rissa was the Head of the Technological Section. Then it all went wonky when Calli’s mate showed up. Rissa loved Kade; however, he was the catalyst of sorts when it came to this whole prophecy drama. Who the hell knew what they were supposed to do, other than survive?

The Ulfer were shifters, who, for one reason or another, had a missing gene in their DNA, it made them just a bit crazy, and the head of the crazies was a man called the Bondi King. Mr. Twisted Mate was the Bondi King’s right hand man. The Ulfer wanted to use the humans for their own gain. They basically thought that humans were the inferior race. It really was a mess. Humans couldn’t regulate the magical community so they had the Drekinn, now somehow all of that changed. The contract was taken away from the Drekinn and given to another company, the Prentiss Agency, which was led by the Bondi King, even if the humans were unaware of it. Rissa and her friends were on the run, labeled as Most Wanted, because they refused to be nice, little sheep and follow.

They all escaped New York City to a huge compound hidden right inside New York State and they could still go into the city, although in disguise. Rissa refused to hide in the city alone—it would be stupid. In addition, she thought as she climbed out the window, balanced on the ledge, and looked around, stupidity did not run in her family.

Walking through the main halls wasn’t