Ryke Meadows

**Jonathan Ryke Meadows**is the husband to Daisy Calloway, their ship name is Raisy. Rock climber, highly brooding & routinely overprotective; he's a mysterious force in the Addicted series. He is the child of Jonathan Hale and Sara Meadows Hale.

## Physical Appearance

Ryke has brown hair, an unshaven jaw, slender nose, tanned skin and brown eyes with hazel around the center. He is 6'3". He has toned muscles and broad shoulders. He has an six-pack. He has a scar that slices through the corner of his eyebrow; it is small but noticeable. He has another scar from transplant surgery. It begins right below his sternum in the exact center of his chest, and it stops before his belly button, veering beneath his ribs, almost like the shape of the letter L.

He has a tattoo of a phoenix with wings in shades of red, orange and yellow engulfs his right shoulder and chest, the feet near his abs. A gray and black chain is wrapped around the ankles of the bird, and it descends down his side, and anchor inked at his hip.

He has a tattoo on his forearm that are dates written in small font, vertically lined. The dates represent the following:

* 9-27-14: The day that he kissed Daisy for the very first time.
* 8-12-16: The day that he asked her to marry him.
* 7-15-17: The day they became husband and wife.
* 2-4-18: The day his first daughter was born.
* 5-19-18: The day he climbed again.

## Personality

Ryke is described to be foul-mouthed stubborn, and hardheaded. He often uses vulgarities in his speech and is not ashamed to be straightforward. Although he doesn’t outwardly show it, he deeply cares for the people he loves. He is also courageous and daring, seen from the many expeditions and adventures he had with Daisy. He is kind and selfless.

In Addicted After All, it said that Ryke curses too much. Is late to everything, even his own birthday. He shelters his intelligence, so they just see this aggressive unfiltered guy and he never gives up.

## Early History

Ryke has been rock climbing since he was six. He loved everything about it, and spent hours at indoor climbing gyms. He used to beg his mom to let him go before school even though he spent all day there the minute the bell rang to release class. Sara hates it, so she put him in track to see if he'd stop, but he didn't. He found two things her loved instead of one.

Ryke met Adam Sully at six years old at Rock Base Summer Camp.

When he was twelve, he streaked at night during summer camp and did a backflip into the lake off a rock. He doesn't find the story entertaining because he snuck in a flask of cheap vodka and was wasted.

Jonathan would send Ryke gifts all the time, and his mom would throw them out. Every Monday was identical to the last. No matter if he was ten or twelve. Fifteen or seventeen. A driver named Anderson would go to Ryke's house in a suburb of Philly at noon. Anderson would drop Ryke off at a country club ten minutes later, and Ryke would meet with Jonathan. After a while he stopped seeing Jonathan, and stopped loving him too.

Throughout his adolescence, Sara used to take Ryke to the Citizens Bank to see the Philadelphia Phillies. Ryke had a shoe box full of baseball cards, and he'd insist on taking them to every game.

Ryke was forced to go to Maybelwood Preparatory, and hour from where he lived because Sara didn't want Ryke to see Lo's face every day and because no one could know that he was her son.

Ryke had a rough patch in high school. He drank and drove, which ended in a totaled car, a broken mailbox, and angry neighbors.

While in college, he would go climbing and turn off his cellphone for a few days, so no one could bother him.

In Kiss the Sky, he spent over a month getting an intricate tattoo. A phoenix with wings in shades of red, orange and yellow engulfs his right shoulder and chest, the feet near his abs. A gray and black chain is wrapped around the ankles of the bird, and it descends down his side, and anchor inked at his hip.

Ryke has scaled mountains with his bare hands. Sped down freeways at over a hundred miles per hour. Once dove off a forty-foot cliff, swam with sharks, jumped out of a plane, whitewater rafted class five rapids and, ran an ultra-marathon in a remote Chilean desert.

## Appearances

### Addicted Series

#### Addicted to You

* Chapters 21-22
* Chapters 24-29
* Chapters 31-33

#### Ricochet

* Chapter 2
* Chapter 5
* Chapters 9-13
* Chapter 15

#### Addicted for Now

* Chapters 2-3
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 18
* Chapters 22-26
* Chapter 28
* Chapters 31-33
* Chapters 35-37
* Chapters 39-40
* Chapters 44-46
* Chapters 52-54
* Chapter 61

#### Thrive

* Chapters 1-2
* Chapters 4-8
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 16
* Chapters 18-21
* Chapters 27-28
* Chapters 30-31
* Chapters 33-34
* Chapters 36-38
* Chapters 42-44
* Chapter 47
* Chapter 49
* Chapters 51-52
* Chapters 54-55
* Chapter 57
* Chapters 59-64
* Chapters 66-67
* Epilogue

#### Addicted After All

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 5
* Chapters 8-13
* Chapters 15-21
* Chapters 24-29
* Chapter 32
* Chapters 34-36
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 41
* Chapters 43-44
* Chapter 46
* Chapters 49-57
* Chapter 59
* Chapters 61-63
* Chapters 65-66
* Chapter 70
* Epilogue

### Calloway Sisters Series

#### Kiss the Sky

* Chapter 5
* Chapters 8-10
* Chapter 12
* Chapters 16-18
* Chapters 21-22
* Chapters 24-27
* Chapter 29
* Chapters 32-36
* Chapter 38
* Chapters 42
* Chapter 44
* Chapters 47-49
* Chapter 51

#### Fuel the Fire

* Chapters 3-4
* Chapters 6-9
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 15
* Chapters 18-22
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 28
* Chapters 30-34
* Chapter 38
* Chapters 42-43
* Chapters 46-50
* Chapter 53
* Chapters 58-59
* Chapter 62
* Epilogue

### Like Us Series

#### Damaged Like Us

* Chapter 16-17
* Chapter 40-41

#### Lovers Like Us

* Prologue
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 43

#### Alphas Like Us

* Chapter 13
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 40

#### Headstrong Like Us

* Chapter 17-18
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 42

#### Charming Like Us

* Chapter 17
* Chapter 43

#### Unlucky Like Us

* Chapter 20
* Chapter 25

## Bodyguard

* **Quinn**: February 2015 to //
* **Wylie Jones**: // to present

## Relationships

* **Melissa**: in Addicted for Now, her and Ryke are "somewhat" dating. *from 2012 to May 2012.*
* **Daisy Calloway**: they start dating in Hothouse Flower. In Long Way Down they get married. *from 2014 to present.*

## Birthday

* In Addicted to You, Ryke is 22.
* In Thrive, Ryke is 22-25.
* In Kiss the Sky, Ryke is 23.
* In Hothouse Flower, Ryke is 25.
* In Addicted After All, Ryke turns 26. *(chapter 61)*.
* In Long Way Down, Ryke is 26-28. *(turns 28 in chapter 50)*.
* In Whatever It Takes, Ryke is 26.

## Trivia

* Ryke is a Virgo.
* Ryke is a Gryffindor.
* According to personality-database.com, Ryke is an ESTP.
* Ryke was on the track team.
* At University of Pennsylvania, Ryke majored in Journalism.
* Ryke doesn't drink.
* Ryke didn't know Lo existed until he turned fifteen.
* Ryke can speak Spanish, Russian, Italian and French.
* Ryke is the messiest out of the Core Six.
* In Kiss the Sky, it is revealed that Ryke has snorted coke before.
* When he was seventeen, he had a 4.0 GPA.
* When he was nine, his nanny used to let him sip her mimosas and bloody Marys.
* Ryke found out that Lo was his half-brother when he was fifteen.
* Ryke loves early mornings. He loves watching the sun rise more than watching it set.
* Ryke lost his virginity when he was fifteen, to an eighteen year old girl. It was on a golf course at three in the morning.
* Ryke's Skype name is *RYKE\_MEADOWS*.
* Bellefonte, was the first route that Ryke ever free-soloed.
* At Comic-Con 2012, Ryke went as Green Arrow. The same costume he wore to the Halloween party in 2011.
* Ryke's twitter username is *MeadowsRyke*.
* Ryke switched his majors five times in his freshman year.
* In December 2016, Ryke legally changed his name from *Jonathan Ryke Meadows* to just *Ryke Meadows*.
* Ryke named his childhood dog Kina after Mount Kinabalu, a mountain he hiked in Boreneo as a kid.
* For Halloween 2017, Lo choose the costume. Ryke dressed up as Anakin from *Star Wars*.
* Modest Mouse is one of Ryke's favorite bands.